Time Lapse of a Snow Storm

December 20, 2008 by admin

Here’s a fun video I shot with my Nikon D300 today:

Some Nikon cameras, like the new Nikon D90, have an interval feature that programs the camera to do some limited time lapse captures. In this case I set it to shoot a photo every fifteen seconds starting about 12:30 p.m. this afternoon (right when the snow was about to start). It collected 730 images (before the battery died) that I later stitched together to make about 12 seconds of video. The camera limits captures to 999 images, although connecting it directly to a PC or Mac will give more flexibility.

Quicktime is an excellent tool for the stitching operation, it was almost too easy! Special tip of the hat to the Inside Aperture blog for the inspiration and instructions. I set the camera to shoot high quality, full res JPEGs and loaded them into Quicktime with the image sequence option. The file was enormous (2.9 gigs for 12 seconds!) but it gave me a ton of resolution to do that motion zoom on the BBQ.

You can find a better quality version on my Facebook video page.

You can also download the full 720P Quicktime by clicking here.

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