Time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that which will be used to play the sequence back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing.

I had a new obsession since I haven’t done any tilt-shift lately. Time lapse photography is such a weird and wonderful thing, my brain struggled to understand it and the only way to figure it out was to try it myself.

I got a GoPro Naked for Christmas and this has a function that allows me to set it up somewhere for 10 minutes, an hour or a day and it will take a 5MP photo every 1, 2, 5, 10, 30 or 60 seconds.

My first attempt, below, was shot overlooking the harbour in Falmouth. I took a photo every 1 second and put them together using Windows Media player but this only allows you to have 8 frames per second.

I then sat in my car for an hour with my GoPro strapped to my roof and took a photo every 10 seconds of the sun setting. I put this together using my boyfriend’s Adobe Premier at 24 fps. It’s a lot smoother but it’s a very short clip.

Now I’m trying out a programme called MakeAVI downloaded free here… I’ll post my time lapse videos as soon as they’re ready!

That programme didn’t work… Guess I’ll stick to Premier!