Photo Plus - UK (2020-04)

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THE MISSION

Discover how to

shoot your very own

time-lapse films

Time needed

1-2 hours

Skill level

Intermediate

Kit needed

• Tripod


• Latest Canon
  EOS camera

How time flies with

time-lapse movies

Create time-lapse videos the simple way with Peter Travers as he use s

the built-in movie mode on his Canon EOS DSLR to speed up time

love how camera tech

keeps making our lives

easier! Time-lapse videos

are a great example. Not

long ago the only way to

create time-lapses on our

Canon camera was to take

thousands of stills over

several hours, using a

remote control with an

intervalometer to take

the images at set intervals.

We’d then use Photoshop to edit

and piece them all together in a

painstakingly time-consuming

process to create a video!

Thankfully the latest Canon

cameras – from an EOS 80D or

later – now have built in time-

lapse movie modes to make the

whole process a lot easier and

quicker, as it stitches the images

together in-camera to create a

lovely, seamless time-lapse video.

Which is great, as it means you

can create fantastic time-lapse

videos that capture and speed up

an event, or scene, to transform

hours passing into mere seconds.

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we were shooting in the changing

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up your time-lapse video. Keep in

mind that the longer the interval

time (eg 10 secs instead of 2 secs)

the faster time moves in the video.

We shot at intervals every 5 secs

and created time-lapse videos

between 15 and 30 secs.

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