As
always weekends are the time I experiment- sometimes photography sometimes on
VFX and stuffs... A well-known technique called- Time lapsing caught my
attention this time, have seen some awesome time-lapse video on YouTube and what
to say- I was dying to try the technique... The problem was I didn’t have
some equipment essential to make a good time lapse such as Tripod and cable
release... But I was determined to give it a try... I choose Kanyakumari as
location as it is a familiar location for me and shooting the sunset from there
was the Idea!
The time was not right- in this time of the year it will be cloudy at the end
of the day which I knew in the first place but still I hoped that I will get
some interesting cloud formation and a colorful sunset. Disappointed and tired
I decided to go back home and as I Looked back to east I was stunned to see the
moon rising behind the “Thiruvalluvar statue”. If I had a 500 mm or above lens
I would have got solitude of Thiruvalluvar statue and Vivekananda memorial from
sunset point with the rising moon as background. A foreigner was there with a
DSLR and some fancy gears and am sure that he got a frame as mentioned above.
Leaving
the disappointments behind I race to the sunrise point- also the moon rise point
now- hoping for some good shots of the moon rise. But when I got there the moon was already above the Vivekananda memorial. I ran here and there looking for different frames and fired a few shots.
Then
the idea- time lapsing- came to my mind, I looked for spots from where I can
get a decent composition and most importantly a support structure of some kind
to use as Tripod. Finally I found the spot near the temple and after many test
shots I began to shoot 2 sec long frames to sort of smoothing the rough sea a
bit with a 1 sec gap between each frame and all done manually. Huh….! Hardwork…
Later at home a few editing in Lightroom and final composting in After Effects
and with that my first Time-lapse video was ready to be published… Not a
perfect one but am happy with the result… Hope you guys will also enjoy my work…!
Watch it here…
One of 87 pics used for the timelapse video...
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