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Time-lapse photography is very similar in context to stop-motion photography except
for a couple major differences. Time-lapse is generally longer time intervals, whereas
stop-action is generally a little bit quicker. An example of good time-lapse might be setting
your camera to shoot every minute for six hours while the sun rises, or while a busy
street has people get onto a busy street, and the morning commute starts. Very similar
to stop-action, once you shoot a time-lapse, it's important to then pull all those photographs
into an editing program, a video editing program specifically like Final Cut, like iMovie,
and time them all together and order them correctly.
A couple of important things to remember if you're going to attempt a time-lapse, is you're
going to need to stabilize the camera. It's got to be in one spot the entire time, or
it's not going to work. It's always a good idea to go after things that you wouldn't
ordinarily see move or really slow moving things. That's what really gives time-lapse
a really special effect, because it visualizes for people things that they see, in theory,
stationary but are actually moving just very, very slowly. It's a really good way to make
that come to life.
Another reason why a lot of photographers are into time-lapse is because it's a cross
between a video and still. It's still a still photograph you're looking at, but it's a still
photograph that's been animated, and that in and of itself is a pretty cool feature
of it. These are just some basics of time-lapse photography.