Fujifilm learning how to holy grail time lapse
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- Опубликовано: 29 мар 2021
- This month I have been out shooting lots of landscape photos and working on my time-lapse skills, here is what I've learnt so far.
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My cameras - Fujifilm XT4 - GFX 50R
My studio video lens - Fujifilm 18-55mm f/2.8-4
My favorite lenses - Fujifilm 16mm f/1.4 & 50-140 f/2.8 / GFX 50mm
Tripod - Manfrotto BeFree Series
Studio Light - Godox SL60W
Microphones - Rode video micro & video Go
Bag - Lowepro flipside sport 15L AW 
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Ever heard about LRTimelapse and the LRTProtimer? This is exactely what you need! :-) Gwegner is a great guy, here on RUclips
Another great video Thomas. Good timing for me as I have been playing around with time-lapse too.
Cheers mate
Thank you for explaining your trial and error process... I have an astro-centric/dark sky roadtrip coming up , and have wanted to try a time lapse with my X-T3 + 16mm 1.4.
I shot all of this content with the 16mm f/1.4, it's a stunning lens
Whow, I had no idea that this is soo complicated. Thank you for explaining this so clearly. Need to start experimenting in my backyard.
Hahaha maybe I just make it too complicated, but thank you for the support
I was literally thinking of how to do this earlier this week haha. I never thought of going auto SS and ISO but that makes so much sense! duh! Another benefit to night time timelapse photography is you can use your frames to get a pretty sweet stacked milky way image.
I've been shooting pretty long shutter speeds to get sweet trails, but yes with a little adapting it could be used for stacking very easily
Probably one of the most informative video of timelapse shooting in youtube... Thank you
Thank you!
Awesome content. I love the practical troubleshooting tips - invaluable!
I love learning them, and thanks for the support
Nice one dude. I want to do something similar so your learnings are definitely a huge help.
Thank you and best of luck!
Appreciating all the effort and will work with the info!!
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this info!
Im a new fuji user (main camera is Nikon D850)and ive never shot a timelapse before. Ive shot the milkyway 4 times now and its a location issue for me as I live near chicago, so I'm headed to New Mexico this weekend and want to try timelapse whilst I'm shooting stills with the Nikon...your video is a great starting point to learn, will do a deep dive into your feed now😊
Fantastic! And 240 agree! I can't remember the last time I saw a video with any views and no dislikes! Great images, of course.
Nice. Your dedication to pushing the craft is 👍.
Thank you!
There'a so much you can take from this and make your own. Adding the foreground in post, for instance.
thanks for sharing your learned lessons!
Cheers for the support
Great to get an awesome result after many attempts. You must be chuffed. You can always get the Timelapse Plus View ramper and that will give you awesome sunset to sunrise with auto intervals throughout. The ramper will have to use your USB port however and that would mean you'd not be able to power it, but then you can use a dummy battery to get around that too I did a number of timelapses with the GFX 50R in the way you did here with auto SS and ISO and that worked very well too, meaning you don't always need a ramper :)
I'm very happy with the current set up but really appreciate the ideas for anyone else following this series
Well done mate😎...from a bloke across the ditch
Maybe I‘ve missed it, but you haven‘t mentioned „exposure smoothing“. It is available in the X-T4 and has solved a lot of timelapse problems for me.
I did forget to mention it actually, and it is very key to this whole process, but it will go into my final how to guide of this.
Thank you for bringing it up
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography Will yoube finishing this guide? it was going well and would love see all ur holy grail on fuji learnings.
Great video! I never thought it was so complicated to create those day to night timelapses, and the worst thing is that a single mistake can ruin 8 to 10 hours of work...
Hahaha I hope it not to be complicated and will make a very easy to follow guide once I feel I've mastered it.
But thank you for the support
Great video. Thanks a stack. Cant wait for the final guide(hopefully before 12 May when I go to Namibia and want to shoot some time lapses) ;-)
Oh it won't be before then sorry, weather down here in New Zealand has been real bad and I haven't been getting many clear skies at all to practice
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography no sweat, had to take a chance. Thanks for the great videos.
Please do a follow up video!!
Awesome love the transparency of the process. But I do have to ask instead of physically touching the camera why not use the Fuji camera remote app?
Because very often I leave my camera, sometimes 100 meters away and can't reconnect once the timelapse is underway
Great videos. Which Fuji models allow use of a battery bank?
Thank you, unfortunately I don’t know the answer to that sorry, it might be easier to find out if a particular model supports usb charging
Great video. Wanted to know does the fuji x e4 supports external usb charging too while shooting like x t4.
Thanks in advance.
I don’t know sorry but maybe a viewer could answer this for you
Hi Thomas, Great video, I am using Fuji Gear as well and was trying to figure out this for myself. Great video and a tip that you change setting once the shutter stabilizes. I am also curious about some flickering I get on day time timelapse where all the settings are constant
That flicker you're getting is most likely from using a too dark of a aperture.
E.g. f/16 or f/22 etc
And it is caused by the aperture blades not quiet closing the exact same amount each time.
If you use a ND filter and say f/4 or f/2.8 etc this should reduce that flickering a lot.
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography hmm I will check. I don't think I was using that smaller aperture. Maybe it is a contrast flicker. I may need to underprocess my images and do the post processing on a video.
Thanks for your quick response.
I deflicker every timelapse no matter what, all the best for working it out
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography What do you use for deflickering?
Hi, Love this video!.. I have a question.. do you use the internal intervalometer or specifically some external intervalometer? Thanks in advance! 🤟🏼🌌
100% just the internal, you can be more perfect with a external but I didn’t go that far
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography Ah, thankss so much! 🙌🏼
Did you do any research into timelapse+ or Arsenal intervalometer while trying to get the day to night shots?
No I didn't, I was sure I could do it with just the camera but applying it just took a little more work than I thought
They don't call day to night time lapses the holy grail for nothing. Great work and I found it to be very helpful. Personally, I really like the image from location #3 (7:45 in the video). The star trails offset to the left slightly helps balance the image in my opinion.
Thank you!
My plan for that shot was a slight different composition with the mountain, ranges and the stars making a triangle.
But yes in the end it's still not a bad shot
How did you check the shutter speed during shooting? My XT3 doesn't show any info except count down seconds. thanks
I’m sure I could quickly see it before it captured the next frame
The camera could have firmware to improve things. For example, the cloud flicker could be eliminated by the camera disallowing rapid auto-exposure adjustments during time lapses. It could be settable, even. They could also compensate the transition to night by making ISO and/or shutter speeds less quantized, along with the aforementioned slowing of the allowed exposure change. Even the app that converts the images into a video could do it by looking at the exposure information and interpolations smooth transitions by apply subtle exposure compensations in perhaps 0.1EC increments. I mean they do similar things to stabilize handheld video. This ought to be even easier.
The in camera feature already exists in the xt4 but cloud flicker in my opinion shouldn't be reduced as to do so would be unnatural, and would cause elements in shadow to flicker if it was corrected which wouldn't look right.
I think my end process should be very simple and easy but I will let everyone know once I feel I have mastered it
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography, I disagree. If you set a fixed exposure, passing clouds that cast moving shadows does look correct, at least for landscape type time lapse. You only need to correct exposures over a longer time scale.
Sorry I am confused then because that is exactly what was done in that final timelapse.
Settings were auto until the stars came out and then everything was locked off.
Great video! May I know how do you prevent flickering with this type of photography? Thanks!
Aside from in camera settings I add the time lapse to the pro version of Divinci resolve which has a fantastic time lapse anti flickering filter
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography thank you!
Excellent video, thanks for sharing.
I have an XT 200 and can’t work out how to remove / delete the odd photo that doesn’t turn out.
Any suggestions are appropriated.
Do you mean, how to delete a 1 off photo of your choice in camera?
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography after shooting a Timelapse “movie” and there is a few scattered failed photos, I’d like to remove them but if I delete them on the camera it also cancels the movie sequence ..
Oh I’ve never shot a Timelapse that’s been assembled in camera to help you out there sorry, but I’d assume that you’re stuck with what you’ve captured until you’ve got it into a editor.
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography do you have a recommended editor to use ?
I use davinchi resolve, it’s high end and maybe a little complicated, but it has a great free version.
God dammit... sounds like I have to be sober next camping trip, this is way too hard! Thanks for nuthin!
Just be sober when you set the camera up, then pack the camera up once you're out of drinks or the sun rises.
I wouldn't be THAT cruel to you buddy
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography Hehe :D
I couldn't catch up with this video hahaha.
Never tried time lapse before, but it's something I'd like to try someday.
It's very rewarding once you get it going
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography I bet! I really have a hard time finding dark (AND SAFE) places where I live. :-(
Not a issue I've ever really had to deal, but instead I get slow internet and a long drive to any shops
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography never thought NZ would have slow internet. hahaha
Long drives are terrible =[
Let's switch places for a week! :-D
What mechanism did you make to reduce condensation?
I cut a Thick sock in half and placed it around the lens, and then a power bank with a USB fan hooked up to it blowing straight at the front of the lens
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography :Thank you so much
Any time 😁
How to make a timelapse, like at 2:04 min.??? Thanks.
For that southern cross time lapse, wouldn’t you just need to be due north of the mountain to line it up? I would have checked the compass in my phone. And a map app using GPS.
That is exactly what I did but it didn't aline, not sure if it's the app or my phone
If you had a paper map and just drew a line north of the peak and then shot from that line, it should have worked, I think. The only error would be the Earth’s axis precession over the years. But that is tiny in your wide angle shot.
I do not own paper maps nor would I plan to for every location I plan to visit.
The theory works very well but unfortunately these days paper maps are becoming less of a practical thing when so much can be stored in my pocket....granted this time inaccurately
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography, I agree. My point wasn’t to use a paper map. It was more that even low tech would have worked for this situation. I also bought that app, and it was too expensive for what it is. It ought to get it right . Or they didn’t make it simple enough for you to get the right result. Either way.
In the app I placed a marker on too of the mountain and then followed the link pointing to north/south until I found that hill.
It like a very easy way to work it out, but in photo pills defense it also might be phone gps is a little shit
21st.
99% of content creators on social networks and RUclips are amateurs or semi-professionals, and they don't need anything more than a GoPro. Spending money on expensive cameras and equipment while creating content that will be viewed via tablets and smartphones is like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer. Completely unnecessary and you can do all that without any hassle with this action camera.
I unsure what that comment has to do with this video or my channel sorry?