The Idea Was To Go From Day To The Black Of A Stormy Day, Almost Like Night In This Canon 60d Test

This test was done on the 60d. It is a time lapse of approaching storm clouds. Watch as the darkness descends upon the venerable houses. This footage is part of my new zombie movie, so I was not really doing a Canon 60d test.

But let me turn the table again and call it a Canon 60d test: any time lapse is like a test, the photographer is at the mercy of the elements. Why is this? Creating a time lapse is an uncertain art, and you never know what the result will be. That’s the great fun of it, not knowing. Sometimes you get great stuff you did not expect. The end result always surprises me even when I plan it out.

The theme here is obvious in this Canon 60d test: the apocalypse is coming, darkness and danger is descending, swallowing everything in its path. The Zombie apocalypse is just around the bend.

This is raw footage. This footage came straight out of the camera. There are no fades, filters, or effects. This is the way I learned how to do it thirty years ago. In a lot of cases footage just looks better this way rather than putting the it through effects generators. This is the old school way. The old rule says: what can be done in camera, should be done in camera. It took three storms to create this short footage in this Canon 60d test. It takes a lot of patience and time to do this kind of work. All it really took was getting the right manual aperture to achieve the evil atmosphere.

The quality is way below the original footage, as TouTube compresses, and does not offer full HD. I guarantee that the finished project would look great on the biggest screen. Another thing to talk about is the ugly time lapse flicker. And that’s why I say creating a time lapse is like a Canon 60d test. The odd thing here is that sometimes you get flicker, sometimes you do not. You can reduce the flicker in most cases. All you have to do is to use one exposure for every one second interval, this will give you a smoothest look, if not there is software to help you fix it.

The fact that light is actually changing every second, but our eyes can not perceive these changes, when the camera can, this is one factor, but I think it has something to do with the camera too. This is not a bad Canon 60d test, but the file is compressed, the blacks are noisy, and later, in the fished product, I would match the colors, contrast, and brightness, and crush the blacks a, but you get the idea. Here is where you can learn more about Time lapse and the Canon 60d intervalometer.

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