The Time-Lapse Challenge
The looming and constant challenge in my niche market is how to explain to potential clients why I do what I do. It’s not the photography but the thinking and…
Time Lapse Logistics
If you want your organizations’ story told using time lapse as the format, for social media to engage, entertain and inform your followers, please read the following and consider the elements necessary for a successful outcome.
Putting cost aside for the moment…
Gear Up!
First off, time lapse photography at its’ core is documentary in nature. Time lapse photography is usually a straight forward process: one or more cameras diligently record a scene, event, process or phenomenon. It can be as straightforward as a single stationary camera set out for several hours, or it be exponentially more complex when cameras are placed in remote locations for weeks, months or years. Recording a variety of ambient sounds for use in the editing process is also a consideration. (Sometimes easier than trying to source it online after principal photography has been completed.)
Decisions That Drive The Time Lapse Narrative Forward
What should be your guiding principal when planning shots, especially when it comes to motion control time lapse sequences? The four keywords I keep in mind are: education, documentation, preservation and entertainment. Every decision I make rides on the backs of these four words.
I jumped into time lapse photography in ’03 and have been hacking away at it ever since. During this time, I realized I was developing a new specialty: the commercial time lapse narrative. Now I offer a boutique experience to my market in that I shoot time lapse projects with the mindset of a movie director. I offer and provide multiple camera set ups daily, weekly and monthly. In addition to the usual fixed or static camera that records all that happens in front of it I also place what I call rover units throughout a site in order to tell the complete story, whatever it may be…thus the decisions that come with this approach.
Personal Branding Matters…
Last week I spent an evening with Kevin Susman of Storm Cellar and his WHYMATTERS #personalbranding Workshop. Kevin runs Storm Cellar and is a brand strategist, filmmaker and guy who…
Partner With Good Products
Trying something new here...my first video promo/post where I'm discussing the merits of the eMotimo TB3 motion control unit. Hope you find it useful: Thanks for watching. Michael
The Fabulous Forum
August 27, 2013. I was on my 10th assignment for the Madison Square Company in New York. As the renovation of the Fabulous Forum proceeds, my archive is contains over…
I’m A Picture Maker, Not A Picture Taker
This is a photograph of how the subject appears during the time of day I prefer to work: I made a number of additional exposures while on the scene. I…
Why Does It Cost So Much?
Why Does It cost so much? –or– Why don’t I own it? Filed under, “If I had a nickel for every time I heard this….” Knowledge & Power The…
Light Painting A Sunset
I've been testing a pan and tilt time lapse move I'll be incorporating into a new film. It's important to understand visually how the "move" looks and what result each pan…
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