I made my first attempt in Time Lapse Photography during the spring 2009. Early I thought that experimenting with this tecnique could be interesting in terms of producing original footage of cloudscapes to be used for my animated Matte Painting.

Later, when I begun stepping more in depth after buying one intervalometer to better schedule and properly shoot my sequences of events with my Nikon D-70, I realized that these images have their own way to tell something “larger” than my early purpose.
To get what I'm talking about try to watch movies like Koyaanisqatsi (1983) by the director Godfrey Reggio or Baraka (1992) by master cinematographer Ron Fricke. These images in these movies reveal the essence of TIME as the main ruler of nature and mankind.

Technically is quite simple, you must take series of picture every given time and once done, loading all the pics in a editing program in order to treat shots as frames! Doing so time consuming events can be timely shorten to a few seconds or so when played back at a given frame rate. It's possibile to use any consumer or professional digital cameras in time lapse photography but the main core device of this technique is the intervallometer which manages and schedules shooting. Some prosumer cameras have an embedded time lapse function, but others not just like my Nikon D-70. But that's a not a problem! There's a worthy and easy to use electronic solution produced and sold by canadian Visual Effect Inc. called Pclix LT. I just brought one with me this year on my last trip in Norway (see the gallery).

Here a picture of Pclix LT in action!

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