In honor of time lapse week, here’s a time lapse that has a few things we can take into account when using the GoPros or interval-ometer on the Canon’s:
1) Extremely smooth 180 degree shots of different monuments, to the extent where it almost feels like CG rendering. Clearly, having a solid light source gives dynamism to the images, and makes for a compelling time lapse.
2) He follows video rules! The scenes fit well together –it’s not like one scene and then a next–if a pan ends on the right hand side of the screen, the next image progresses starting from the right side.
3) Use multiple lenses! At minute 1:18 you can tell he chose a lens that captured the feeling of the Italian fountain. By picking the right angles and lenses etc for each scene, the time lapse becomes a piece that had thought and time go into it, rather than a random collection of images’