Bedroom Camera Obscura Timelapse

Building on the project described in my last post which involved creating a camera obscura out of a bedroom with our grandkids Olivia and Jack, we have taken the project to the next level: video!

For this, we used Olivia's pinhole lens which with its larger aperture allowed shooting shorter exposures. That let us maximize how many frames we could capture in a given amount of time. I re-framed the view in my Nikon D750 to take advantage of the wall space on the right and we then set it up to take one ten-second shot every 12 seconds. At the end of an hour and 10 minutes, I stopped the camera, having taken 348 images. 

The next step was loading the images on the computer, cropping to a 16:9 ratio and adjusting the exposure a little in Lightroom plus inverting them vertically, then using LRTimelapse to render a 4K video. The last step was adding titles and music (Pounded Piano by Podington Bear) in Da Vinci Resolve. 

This was shot at a busy time in the backyard, with our Weimaraner Luna coming and going and with the grass being  mowed. The timelapse also captures clouds floating by and the shadows of trees and such moving. 

This is short but pretty cool... Enjoy! 

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