Have you seen this trippy YouTube video which features time-lapse photography at its finest?
A very attractive 20-something-year-old woman took a picture of herself every day for four and a half years, and then stitched the frames together to create an incredible time-lapse video.
According to the woman, she snapped the portraits of her fine-looking self between September 29, 2006 and May 12, 2011. You can see all of the individual photos on her blog, and then watch as she places them in sequence to create the awe-inspiring 41-second video that will take your breath away.
I have viewed the video multiple times and am impressed more and more each time I hit the replay button. I wish I had the foresight to take a photo of my daughter every day since her birth. I would love to design a time-lapse video featuring a slew of my child’s images. Fortunately, she’s only seven years old, so I still have a chance to jump on the time-lapse photo bandwagon before she graduates and moves out of the house.
The key to creating a time-lapse masterpiece is consistency. The technique does not mandate that you use an expensive DSLR or that you have mad photo skills. As long as you frame your shots in the same manner and you are diligent about saving your images so that you can edit the final product, piecing together a time-lapse movie is reasonably simple.
The majority of time-lapse videos run around 20 to 30 frames per second and can be put together using photo-editing software like Adobe Photoshop. If you want a longer movie, simply multiply the frames per second with the duration of the movie. For example, 24 frames per second multiplied by 30 seconds equals 720 frames. In other words you will need a total of 720 frames if you want to create a seamless video like the one the woman placed on YouTube.
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