The Tide At English Bay

The Tide At English Bay
Originally uploaded by Tim McDonald

Time lapse of the rising tide at English Bay.

To create, I set the camera (D700) up on a tripod in interval shooting mode. I then left it to take a photo every 10 seconds over approximately 3 hours (1027 photos in total).

Each photo:
1/500th sec at f/9, ISO 200. 40mm focal length.

The photos were then imported to Lightroom primarily so that they could be resized down to 640x480 en masse to keep the vidoe file size and processing time to a minimum. The resized photos were joined in a freeware program called Photolapse and output as an avi file at 30fps.

Final step in the process was to use Windows Movie Maker to compress the video from 74mb down to about 5mb.

Not the most efficient process but it works and it's free. I understand that a lot of people use Quicktime Pro to create time lapse videos. I'd like to know how easy it is before I cough up the money to upgrade to Quicktime Pro

Lac Louise

Lac Louise, originally uploaded by Tim McDonald.

One of the primary reasons for my trip to Alberta was to visit Lake Louise and Moraine Lake. Everyone has seen those amazing photos of these two lakes with the beautiful blue water. Unfortunately, I had not done my research so did not know that these lakes do not fully thaw until June/July. As a result, I was a little disappointed to find Lake Louise still mostly frozen (even in late May) as well as Moraine Lake closed altogether. C'est la vie. Still an amazing sight though.