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I'll bet he is doing a video time lapse. That is how they are done, and they can be quite beautiful, especially when the conditions are right and the videographer understands composition and so forth.
As I've learned, motion images are, in many ways, a very different sort of thing than still photography, despite some important overlaps. A friend with whom I sometimes photograph - a fine photographer who recently had a show open at Harvard U - shoots both still and video when he is in the field. Sometimes he'll even set up the video gear for a time lapse of the sort you describe and then work on the still photography while the time lapse capture continues!
Take care,
Dan
dswiger wrote:
OK, I don't usually post threads like this but this observed shooting methodology
"almost" bothers me.
What I observed kind of takes the inspiration part, out of landscape photography
I was doing my usual pilgrimage to Tunnel View.
I always visit this spot even if it's been "snapped" millions of times.
It's an inspirational location, sort of the quintessential Yosemite icon.
While setting my 4x5 film camera, the only "real way" to photograph ..... jk
I notice a guy setting up his oversized tripod, DSLR and an intervalometer.
The photographer disappears for a while then I noticed "beeps & clicks"
Didn't think much of it till it dawned on me.
He had framed a scene, then let the camera take images every minute or less, probably bracketed. This went on for at least 1/2 hour at which point I was done. Not sure how long he let it rip.
Now to be fair, it was a dramatic "storm clearing" view.
The clouds were caressing, coming & going.
El Cap was playing hide & seek.
So I'm sure there were 100s of "snaps" to be had.
Where's the inspiration in that?
I was always of the mind set that I would be set up & when a special moment appeared, I would open/close the shutter. I might even do this a couple of times for the right poses.
But 100s of them! Why not just crank up a Go Pro at every location in the park?
Turn them into time lapses & sell them as the work of a great photographer.....
So am I just new-old school?
Is this the new wave?
Should I just bring my iPad and hold it up like some Rosetta Stone apparatus and snap away
OK, a lot of this is tongue & cheek but what say you all?
Dan...Show more →
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