iPhone 4 timelapse movie

Timelapse movie shot with an iPhone 4

The last few days I’ve been having fun creating time lapse movies around Airlie Beach Lagoon, a few short minutes from where I live. The video shown above was created by piecing together 270 photographs, all shot with an iPhone 4 in the middle of the day. I used an app from Joby Inc called Gorillacam to do the time-lapses. You can read more about it over on the Joby website at: http://joby.com/gorillacam. Basically what this wonderful app does is allows the photographer to shoot multiple photos spaced at a set interval. You can take photos as fast as 1 second apart, or up to 2 minutes apart.

To hold the iPhone steady through all 270 images, I used a Joby GM2-A1AM Gorillamobile for iPhone 4. Gorillamobile is a neat little tripod for your iPhone that fits in your pocket, ready to be carried where ever you go. It’s flexible, wrappable legs attaches to any surface for hands-free use. With Gorillamobile I can now take full advantage of the iPhone five times digital zoom. Without it, I found images far too shaky to be of any use!

To stitch all 270 photographs together into one timelapse movie, I used Quicktime 7 pro. Quicktime is the easiest software I’ve seen for fast conversions, a few clicks of the mouse and its done! You simply click along the top toolbar on File / Open Image Sequence / choose your images and click ‘Open’. Once you’ve viewed the time lapse, you can then export it for sharing online.

It can’t get any easier than that :)

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Macro Photography – Green Grasshopper

I finally found the culprit eating all our tropical palms out back …. yes, it was a green grasshopper. So I grabbed the Canon 7D and macro lens for a couple of quick snaps. Here is my favourite below.

The grasshopper was photographed with a Canon 7D Digital SLR + Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens.

EXIF DATA

ISO 200
Aperture f/5.6
Shutter Speed 1/125

No flash was required as it was the middle of the day with plenty of light. The overcast day however was an advantage as far as colour goes. Truth be known, overcast days are my favourite for photographing macros as the colours are always at their best!

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