Captured 50,000 photos to create a timelapse movie about the Alps in Europe

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The alps in Europe are stretching 1,200 kilometres across eight alpine countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia and Switzerland. In 2019 I spent all my free time travelling roughly 5,000 kilometres across most of those countries to find the most beautiful spots in the Alps. Some of the better-known places I visited were the Dolomites in Italy, Zermatt with the famous Matterhorn mountain in Switzerland, the Zugspitze – Germanys highest mountain and the Mount Blanc region in the French alps. During this year I also not only travelled a lot, I took around 50,000 photos resulting in approximately one terabyte of data and paid roughly 400 Euros on gondola tickets to get up the mountains :/

For the capturing of all the photos I used the Canon EOS 6D and a 750D plus the canon 24-150mm f4L, Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 and Sigma 70-300mm. For the motion control I had the Syrp Magic Carpet and the Genie mini. I used Adobe Lightroom to edit the raw images and the LR timelapse plugin to render the videos out of lightroom. Finally used Premiere and Aftereffecta to cut the movie.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask, I would love to answer them!
 
Awesome!

I hope you also took some stills not intended for the video.
 
I don't usually click on video links on DP Review, but I'm glad I did for yours. I really enjoyed seeing that, thank you.

Might I ask, what interval between exposures you normally set, please? And how many frames per second in the final movie?
 
Beautiful time lapse! Thanks for posting it.
 
Awesome!

I hope you also took some stills not intended for the video.
Thank you very much! Yes, took a lot of images which were not for the timelapse film. I had to wait many times anyway so I had a lot of time taking images with my seconds camera :-)
I don't usually click on video links on DP Review, but I'm glad I did for yours. I really enjoyed seeing that, thank you.

Might I ask, what interval between exposures you normally set, please? And how many frames per second in the final movie?
Thank you so much, really happy to hear that!

Usually I would aim for something between 0,3 and 3 seconds depending on how fast I want the scene to be later. The final movie has 30 fps because I feel 24 fps can look a bit stuttery
 
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Wonderful, absolutely wonderful!! Thank you for posting here.

Just curious... did you have any problems with your equipment in the low temperatures? Did you provide special protection for the camera (6D) body? Again, thank you and HAGD :-)
 
Wonderful, absolutely wonderful!! Thank you for posting here.

Just curious... did you have any problems with your equipment in the low temperatures? Did you provide special protection for the camera (6D) body? Again, thank you and HAGD :-)
Not at all, but I have to admit it only got cold once or twice (-20°C with heavy winds was the coldest), also I didn't have any protection besides a polarization filter on the lens. I think especially the 6D is pretty solid, there were many times it got soaking wet but never had any problems with it
 
Link to the timelapse movie:

The alps in Europe are stretching 1,200 kilometres across eight alpine countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia and Switzerland. In 2019 I spent all my free time travelling roughly 5,000 kilometres across most of those countries to find the most beautiful spots in the Alps. Some of the better-known places I visited were the Dolomites in Italy, Zermatt with the famous Matterhorn mountain in Switzerland, the Zugspitze – Germanys highest mountain and the Mount Blanc region in the French alps. During this year I also not only travelled a lot, I took around 50,000 photos resulting in approximately one terabyte of data and paid roughly 400 Euros on gondola tickets to get up the mountains :/

For the capturing of all the photos I used the Canon EOS 6D and a 750D plus the canon 24-150mm f4L, Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 and Sigma 70-300mm. For the motion control I had the Syrp Magic Carpet and the Genie mini. I used Adobe Lightroom to edit the raw images and the LR timelapse plugin to render the videos out of lightroom. Finally used Premiere and Aftereffecta to cut the movie.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask, I would love to answer them!
This is absolutely amazing stuff. You should earn an Oscar for it.

One question, how do you handle the exposure? I am pretty sure you didn't use AE. Do you let the ISO float, or you adjust the exposure in post?

So, what was your interval?
 
Christian

very well done, some of them outstanding

thanks for sharing!
 
This is absolutely amazing stuff. You should earn an Oscar for it.

One question, how do you handle the exposure? I am pretty sure you didn't use AE. Do you let the ISO float, or you adjust the exposure in post?

So, what was your interval?
Thank you so much!! :-)

I would say in 90% of the sequences I had everything fixed: ISO, exposure and aperture. If there was a scenery with heavily changing light like during a sunset or sunrise I would go with aperture priority mode and let the camera adjust the exposure time automatically. In my experience most of the times this works alright.

The interval was always a bit different ranging from 0,3 seconds if I wanted slow movements and up to 4-5 seconds during sunsets / sunrises
Christian

very well done, some of them outstanding

thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much!
 
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I don't usually click on video links on DP Review, but I'm glad I did for yours. I really enjoyed seeing that, thank you.

Might I ask, what interval between exposures you normally set, please? And how many frames per second in the final movie?
Same with me but I saw how many 'likes' this had so gave it a view. Fantastic.

Paul
 
Very nice work. Thanks for posting.
 

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