timelapse: sea of fog

I recently shot some of my first timelapse sequences with the E-M5 II and G81.
If you wanna have a look, check it out:

All sequences shot form the same place.
Lense used: Oly 12-40mm 2.8, Oly 45mm 1.8, Oly 60mm 2.8, Oly 75-300mm.

Comments/critique welcome. Kind regards, Oliver

Nice !

What was the secuence time?

every 5 second's?

Impressive! Care to share a little more of your setup? Shutterspeed? Interval? Mine always come out kinda jumpy/jerky.

Nice work. I watched it on my tv. Thanks for all the effort. It was really well done.

Very nice and the music fits perfectly!

Well done, I really wish I could visit this place

spike29 wrote:

Nice !

What was the secuence time?

every 5 second's?

Thank you

Well I tried different intervall times... but it's mainly 3 or 2seconds. A few shots where on 1sec.

Since the fog does not always move at the same speed, it's always a bit of guessing.

But overall I would say 2sec is probably a good value. If there is a little bit of wind and the fog moves slowly.

Tallgrass wrote:

Impressive! Care to share a little more of your setup? Shutterspeed? Interval? Mine always come out kinda jumpy/jerky.

Thank you.

Well, it was all shot in manual mode of course.

Usually I had my lenses on f4, used a low ISO and adjusted the shutterspeed acordingly.

Intervall time was not the same on all shots, I was experimenting... but mostly it was on 2 or 3 seconds. Sometimes 1 second.

But in the end it depends on the speed of the wind... it's a lot of guesswork

I also came a cross a phaenomenon called "aperture flicker". Never heard of it before since I never did timelapse before... but actually if you do not use your lens fully open, the aperture closes down a bit on every shot and that can lead to flickering.

I had this problem especially with the 45mm 1.8 when using it on f4 or whatever that was not 1.8.

To avoid this kind of flicker, either shoot wide open OR use the pretty cool software called "LRTimelapse" to remove the flickering afterwards.

Boss of Sony wrote:

Nice work. I watched it on my tv. Thanks for all the effort. It was really well done.

Thank you :). I agree. The better the screen you watch it on, the better

Wow, this is great. I usually get bored of time lapses after about 30 seconds, but this I just couldn't get my eyes away from.

Well done.

Your video makes me FEEL the nature, thank you!

Did you do the panning digitally (moving crop area), or during capture (moving camera)?

Well done" Thanks for posting

Astrotripper wrote:

Wow, this is great. I usually get bored of time lapses after about 30 seconds, but this I just couldn't get my eyes away from.

I agree with this.  Beautifully shot, and a great job of editing the good variety of shots, plus a nice finish to the not-too-long video.

I've never tried time lapse, but I'll have to keep it in mind.  Thanks to the OP for the tips.

Superb!  The best I've seen by far.  At around 1:00 the soft sea-like undulating is Impressive.

Astrotripper wrote:

Wow, this is great. I usually get bored of time lapses after about 30 seconds, but this I just couldn't get my eyes away from.

Well done.

Thank you, that's a nice compliment

tiksom wrote:

Your video makes me FEEL the nature, thank you!

Did you do the panning digitally (moving crop area), or during capture (moving camera)?

Thank you :))

It's only digital panning/zooming.

Hi Oliver

Absolutely stunning!  I've "experimented" with time lapse, but never been very happy and not really found appropriate music - Here you've got it all right!

We have an AV evening at our photo soc. next week, may I have your permission to show it - fully credited - of course! ?

Thanks again!

Mike

Michael J Davis wrote:

Hi Oliver

Absolutely stunning! I've "experimented" with time lapse, but never been very happy and not really found appropriate music - Here you've got it all right!

We have an AV evening at our photo soc. next week, may I have your permission to show it - fully credited - of course! ?

Thanks again!

Mike

Sorry Mike I did not see your post until now.

I sent you a private message.