So last Friday I ordered a new toy from Amazon. Today thanks to the goodness that is Amazon Prime, I got my Intervalometer. Right now, I'm exporting the files from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and I'll have a nice shiny time-lapse up in just a few minutes. What an intervalometer does is basically act as a remote shutter button but with the added function of adding a timer. Practically, it lets you tell your camera to take a picture every five seconds, or three seconds, or however long you want it to in between.
In this case, I took about a three and a half hour time lapse of the Kentucky state capitol building, shooting a still image every five seconds. So now I've got minutes to time lapse goodness, right?
Well, by minutes, I mean as long as it takes to export 2,517 still frames from Lightroom. Then import those images as a frame sequence into Adobe Premiere Pro CC, then export all of that goodness out into YouTube friendly 1920 by 1080. I mean, I guess technically I could export them at the native resolution of the frame so 5184 by 3456... which is ehhh a little over 5k? Which is just ridiculous.
So one thing I'd like to say on here is that through doing this stuff - I met the guy behind @7thCause last week. This week, I met Thorney Lieberman. It's super cool to meet these people and I'm super excited about who I'll run into next time.
About Thorney - the guy literally wrote the book on shooting the Capitol building. He's an architectural photographer from New York by way of West Virginia, and has done some pretty incredible photo work. I got to see one of the prints of his coal miners in person, and to say it was awesome is just not doing it justice. He and his drone (which he's probably going to make me purchase now) is in this vlog post thingy. His show will be up at the Frazier museum sometime pretty soon, so I'll keep you posted when you can go see his work in person. I'm looking forward to it.
Check out the time-lapse in my newest post on YouTube. Make sure you subscribe there, and here.