Wall-e Timelapse

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One or two of you may have seen the photo of my Wall-e set I put together in the photos thread. Well after a few weeks of trial and error, and quite a bit of swearing when I kicked the tripod by mistake halfway through the first try I have finally finished.

Ran it 24/7 for around a week, taking around 2000 photos. Came out okay I think, and not going to try again, sick of my room stinking of cress. If I were to revisit it there are some improvements id like to do. Mainly use my motorized camera slider to add some pan movement to it/ different angles, and not jog the camera now and then when watering it. Hello Dolly music would have suited it better but copyright n all.

 
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very clever. How do you do this, just somehow program your camera to turn on every now and then and take a photo?

I am curious, as just getting into photography and recently bought a Nikon D80 and I am slowly getting to grips with it.

Just do not know how you achieved this.


Thank you. I enjoyed it. Also yes you are right, some form of camera movement, moving around etc would be good on it. But I bet that is somewhat hard to do as well.
 
Magic_x_uk said:
very clever. How do you do this, just somehow program your camera to turn on every now and then and take a photo?

I am curious, as just getting into photography and recently bought a Nikon D80 and I am slowly getting to grips with it.

Just do not know how you achieved this.


Thank you. I enjoyed it. Also yes you are right, some form of camera movement, moving around etc would be good on it. But I bet that is somewhat hard to do as well.
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Powered the D90 with a DC power adaptor so it was always on and plugged in a remote where you can set it to take a photo every so long for however many. Set the exposure to manual and manual focus.

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Awesome! Kinda off topic but how big is the Wall-E figure and where did you get it from?
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Its about 7-8cm high and is from Kaiyodo Revoltech, was about £25 from ebay, hong kong seller.
 
I noticed you had a checklist for improvement on YouTube. Did the whitebalance change halfway through?
 
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I noticed you had a checklist for improvement on YouTube. Did the whitebalance change halfway through?
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White balance I set manually at the start. Lighting colour changes are different lighting, going from dark orange, to light to green. Could be better if it were more gradual but oh well.

But learnt quite a bit from doing it all, mainly longer shutter larger aperture the better to reduce flicker. Next timelapse I do I might try the trick to lock the aperture blades in place. If I am right you hold shutter half down, press dof preview button with the lens release and twist the lens slightly to break the contacts with the body.
 
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