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Course Schedule and Printable Quick Reference Guide Instructor: Ryan Chylinski
Hello and welcome to the course on time-lapse photography! Im truly excited to be partnering with you on this discussion and cant wait to see some of the time-lapse videos you create. Time-lapse is constantly evolving: its an art and science thats expanding the boundaries of technology, creativity and our understanding of the world around us... it also allows us to see amazing hidden change and thats what makes it so much fun! Skillshare Course Outline and Schedule Materials: Time-lapse Photography: A Complete Introduction (eBook) (Print edition available) Office hour sessions occur live and will be recorded and posted if you are unable to attend Section 1: Time-lapse Gear (book chapter 1: pages 18-34) LIVE Q&A office hour Sunday 4/28 8pm EST - Submit questions for discussion before Sunday afternoon Video topics to be posted before office hour session (breaking these up from one giant file) covering: Tripods and stability systems Intervalometers Cameras and lense ND Filters Optional and helpful extras Section 2: Shooting Considerations and Flicker Prevention (book chapter 2-4: pages 36-72) LIVE Q&A office hour Sunday 5/5 8pm EST - Submit questions for discussion before Sunday afternoon Video topics to be posted before office hour session Image settings and file considerations Composition and time-lapse exposure settings Programming your intervalometer What is time-lapse flicker and how to prevent it Section 3: Creating the time-lapse movie (book chapter 5: pages 74-110) LIVE Q&A office hour Sunday 5/12 8pm EST - Submit questions for discussion before Sunday afternoon Video topics to be posted before office hour session Overview of common free and not free rendering options Free Software walkthroughs: Virtualdub, time-lapse assembler LRtimelapse and Adobe Lightroom Adobe Aftereffects Overview of other NLEs and adding panning/tilting/music/effects in post production Section 4: Final questions and advanced topics (book chapter 6: pages 110-139) LIVE Q&A office hour Sunday 5/19 8pm EST - Submit questions for discussion before Sunday afternoon Video topics to be posted before office hour session Astrotimelapse HDR time-lapse Bulb ramping and day-to-night transitions Time-lapse motion control devices
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Decide the length of your video: Aim for at least a 8 - 12 second clip to allow for transitions and editing play if you are combining sequences or adding music. Determine how many shots you need to take: Video length (seconds) x frame rate (seconds) = Total number of images required Example: 10 seconds of moon footage x 24 fps = 240 images needed Calculate your shooting time: Total number of images x Interval between each image = Total shooting time 240 moon photos x 3 second interval between each = 720 seconds or 12 minutes
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Using a batch photo editor, make changes to one time-lapse photo and sync those changes across all in the sequence
Transitional Editing
Setup Deickering
Optional: Use keyframes and RAW meta data to fade multiple exposure changes through all or part of the sequence
Time-lapse Rendering