Sunrise Timelapse

[Davek1991]

Hey All,

Ive been trying my hand at timelapse photoghraphy - and being completely new to photography i have a few questions.

so i at the location set up the timelapse with the intervalometer remote etc and take a few practice shots to get the correct settings for the scene.

this is prior to the sun rising so obviously its not very light.

once the sun rises that all changes and i find my self adjusting the f value to compensate for the additional light.

after the time lapse is finished i go back to the computer and shooting in raw i set a edited template for one of the first photos and then batch edit all of the photos from the template.

the problem is you can clearly see adjustments in the settings when looking at the finishing product.

is there a way i can smooth out these changes and is my procedure for setup and editing correct?

any help is much appreciated.

Dave.

 

[Durbs]

From my limited experience, I found a fixed aperture and ISO (and white balance - learnt that the hard way...) were key to smooth timelapses.

It partly depends what style of timelapse you're looking to shoot.
Are you looking to start in darkness and have the scene get brighter, or keep a constant brightness throughout the scene?

For the former, you have to set your final exposure value (i.e. when the sun is up it'll be correctly exposed) and leave it on Manual mode. The initial scenes will be dark (obviously) but it'll get lighter as the sun rises.

If you want a constant (ish) brightness, you use 'A' and let the camera sort the exposure length (so long exposures at first, shorter as the sun rises)

If you let the camera choose the aperture. focus will change (or at least DoF will slowly increase) which ain't ideal.


If you get really into timelapses, a bramper will be useful...