I have a friend who is hoping to be on the American TV show, Survivor. Recently we were talking about her trying out and I ended up making this video for her out of photos and clips she had. We also did a couple insertions of some video I took of her on my Sony A7.
The video was made in iMovie which is inherent software on my Mac. It was so fun to do! Check it out. It’s only two minutes. She would be perfect for it. Pray she gets picked!! (Wisti ok’d my posting of this video.)
My latest endeavor is time lapse photography.
My husband and I had an office installation scheduled and were talking to the owner of the company about photography because his younger son is interested in it. One thing led to another and he asked me if I could do a time lapse of the office installation for the company website. I agreed not knowing one thing about time lapse! Is that a bit nuts?
The first thing I did was to look up in my camera manual how to set up a time lapse. After that I realized the most important information one needs to know is the length of the time you want your final time lapse video to be. In this case, my customer wanted a 90 second time lapse. Once you know that, then you can figure out the interval between each photo taken. There were other considerations to take into account like time lapse flicker, white balance issues and lighting which I realized when I was testing it out in our living room and in the room where the installation would occur.
Once I captured the time lapse (over a two day period), I then loaded it in iMovie and inserted some graphics and transitions along with some music I purchased. I think learning iMovie was the hardest part of this whole thing! Here’s the final time lapse for your viewing pleasure! There are some things I know now that I will do differently the next time but hey, it’s my first attempt.
My customer liked it so much that he is hiring me to do another one in January. Yay!
Here is a link I found very helpful in learning time lapse photography: Time Lapse Info
Have you used Layer Styles? I love them! I use them quite frequently and they’re a fun way to easily enhance your images and text. Check it out!
Just click on this link to watch: Layer Styles
Laura Macky Photography 