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Time-lapse 1 (Week 2)

This time-lapse was shot with a shutter speed of 1/500's at f11 with the ISO at 100. 

I left the camera shooting at an interval of 3 seconds for about 40 minutes with 751 images having been shot.

I imported all the images into Lightroom classic cc and used the sync button in order to allow for all changes that I make to one image, to be applied to all the images that Imported into the catalog.

I started editing all the images by, increasing the contrast to +22 to really make the clouds stand out. I then decreased the shadows to -65 to lighten the areas of the images that had too much shadow. I increased the whites slightly to +33 which brightened parts of the images. I lowered the blacks to -13 in order to lighten some areas which I thought were too dark. Upping the clarity to +31, made the smaller details within the images, really pop. increasing the vibrance to +33 made the colours more eye catching. I then upped the saturation to +54. After that, I put a graduated filter on the images to make the lake and trees brighter and more visible.



Once I had exported all the edited images from Lightroom, I loaded them all into Photoshop via "Load Files Into Stack'. I then used the 'Create Frame Animation' button to turn the first layer into a frame in the timeline at the bottom of the workspace, in the top right corner of the timeline, there is a drop down menu in which there was a tool, 'Make Frames From Layers' which I used to turn the different layers into frames for the time lapse. There was one layer/image that I had to delete as someone came into the shot of the image. I then exported the time-lapse at 24 fps.

Below you can see the original image before editing.


Below is the same image which has been edited in Lightroom.



Below is time-lapse 1.




Time-lapse 2 (Week 3)

This time-lapse was shot with a shutter speed of 1/500's at f11 with the ISO at 200.

I left the camera shooting at an interval of 2 seconds for about 30 minutes with 644 images having been shot.

I imported all the images into Lightroom classic cc and used the sync button in order to allow for all changes that I make to one image, to be applied to all the images that Imported into the catalog.

I first began editing the images by increasing the shadows to +57 to darken specific areas of the images that did not have much shadow and was slightly overexposed. This mostly had an impact on the clouds as they were overexposed and were not clear at all. I increased the whites to +21, this brought some more brightness into the images where it was lacking it. I very slightly upped the blacks to +4, this only made a small difference to the images but it improved it by darkening the shadows and the underside of the bridge so that there was more contrast in the images. Upping the clarity to +20. This made the clouds a lot more visible and it also made the cars passing by on the bridge more clear. Increasing the vibrance to +32 made the colours really pop and. I then upped the saturation to +7 so that the colours were intensified. However, I think that the images looks slightly artificial but it really adds to the aesthetic of the images themselves. I then removed chromatic aberration and enabled the profile corrections.




Once I had exported all the edited images from Lightroom, I loaded them all into Photoshop via "Load Files Into Stack'. I then used the 'Create Frame Animation' button to turn the first layer into a frame in the timeline at the bottom of the workspace, in the top right corner of the timeline, there is a drop down menu in which there was a tool, 'Make Frames From Layers' which I used to turn the different layers into frames for the time lapse. I had to determine what fps to use as I did not want it to be to fast but on the other hand, not to slow, but I came to a conclusion and exported the time-lapse at 24 fps.

Below you can see the original image before editing.


Below is the same image which has been edited in Lightroom.



Below is time-lapse 2.





Time-lapse 3 (Week 4)

This time-lapse was shot with a shutter speed of 1 second at f16 with the ISO at 100. I also used an two ND filters at 3 stops each.

Although in my planning and production, I said I was gonna use a Nikon D5300 with a 18-105 mm lens, instead I used a Nikon D5100 with a 24 mm lens due to the fact that I did not have my own camera on me at the time of shooting this time-lapse.

I left the camera shooting at an interval of 2 seconds for about 20 minutes with 374 images having been shot.

I imported all the images into Lightroom classic cc and used the sync button in order to allow for all changes that I make to one image, to be applied to all the images that Imported into the catalog.

I first began editing the images by increasing the contrast to +31, this increased a small amount of contrast between the clouds and the sky. I decreased the highlights to -15, this made the darker areas and tones within the clouds more visible. I slightly upped the shadows to +35, this decreased the intensity of the shadows in the foreground, which also brought the detail back into the image where there was dark shadows. I lowered the blacks to -22. I did this to make the trees in the foreground darker to add contrast between the foreground and the background.  Increasing the clarity to +16 made the focused areas of the images really clear, this can be seen towards the right side of the images. I then removed chromatic aberration and enabled the profile corrections.



Once I had exported all the edited images from Lightroom, I loaded them all into Photoshop via "Load Files Into Stack'. I then used the 'Create Frame Animation' button to turn the first layer into a frame in the timeline at the bottom of the workspace, in the top right corner of the timeline, there is a drop down menu in which there was a tool, 'Make Frames From Layers' which I used to turn the different layers into frames for the time lapse. My sole issue here, was what the fps was going to be. I did not want it to be too slow that you could see each individual frame but not too fast that the time-lapse lasts 5 seconds. I came to a conclusion and exported the time-lapse at 30 fps. However, this was not possible as it would not let me export it at 30 fps due to it being to large so I used 24 fps instead.




Below you can see the original image before editing.


Below is the same image as above which I edited, I liked the image because it looked abnormal and unique, but I made the image look odd and it didn't look successful. I made the colours over exaggerated as you could see hints of magenta in the clouds.


Below is the same image which has been edited in Lightroom but this time it looks a lot more successful and realistic.



Below is time-lapse 3.





Time-lapse 4 (Week 5)

This time-lapse was shot with a shutter speed of 1/10's at f32 with the ISO at 100.

I left the camera shooting at an interval of 1 second because I was shooting cars which were moving quite fast so in order to capture motion this had to be done. I shot for about 15 minutes with 712 images having been shot.

I imported all the images into Lightroom classic cc and used the sync button in order to allow for all changes that I make to one image, to be applied to all the images that Imported into the catalog.

I started by decreasing the exposure to -0.85 which made the entire image darker because the image was slightly overexposed to begin with. Next, I increased the contrast to +23, this made the shadows a lot darker and the highlights increasingly more bright. I then decreased the highlights to -87 which made the sky clearer and more visible because it was originally overexposed and completely washed out. Next, I increased the shadows to +39, this increased the intensity of the shadows which has made the images somewhat more interesting than to begin with. Upping the clarity to +15 made the images pop especially where there was the most detail such as the bricks on the buildings. Lastly, I increased the dehaze to +30 which made the colours less dull. This can really be seen in the greens on the trees and the blue in the sky. I then removed chromatic aberration and enabled the profile corrections. I then saved all of the RAW images as jpegs to speed up the processing time when it came to creating the time-lapse.



Once I had exported all the edited images from Lightroom from RAW images to JPEGS, I loaded them all into Photoshop via "Load Files Into Stack'. I then used the 'Create Frame Animation' button to turn the first layer into a frame in the timeline at the bottom of the workspace, in the top right corner of the timeline, there is a drop down menu in which there was a tool, 'Make Frames From Layers' which I used to turn the different layers into frames for the time lapse. I found perfecting the frame rate a bit tricky because I did not want to use the common frame rate of 24 fps so I decided to try 15 fps however,  this was to slow to the point that I it was a bit clicky. I then tried 20 fps this was better but the cars were not really showing any blur in the motion from the traffic. In the end I 24 fps looked the best of all.


Below you can see the original image before editing.


Below is the same image which has been edited in Lightroom which had added vibrancy to the image which it was substantially lacking before the editing.


 Below is time-lapse 4.



Time-lapse 5 (Week 5)

This time-lapse was shot with a shutter speed of 1/30's at f22 with the ISO at 100.

I set the camera shooting at an interval of 1 second to capture the fast motion of the train and the cars, if this was any faster then the motion would not be captured which would result in the time-lapse looking quite choppy. The camera was shooting for about 10 minutes.

I imported all the images into Lightroom classic cc and used the sync button in order to allow for all changes that I make to one image, to be applied to all the images that Imported into the catalog.

I did the exact same edit that I used for time-lapse 4 except the only thing that I did differently was that I changed the contrast because the sky was to blue and it just did not look great, so I decreased the contrast to -39 which made the sky look more natural. I also used the spot healing tool in Lightroom to get rid of little specs of dust either on the sensor or on the lens. I then removed chromatic aberration and enabled the profile corrections.



Once I had exported all the edited images from Lightroom from RAW images to JPEGS, I loaded them all into Photoshop via "Load Files Into Stack'. I then used the 'Create Frame Animation' button to turn the first layer into a frame in the timeline at the bottom of the workspace, in the top right corner of the timeline, there is a drop down menu in which there was a tool, 'Make Frames From Layers' which I used to turn the different layers into frames for the time lapse. I used the same frame rate as time-lapse 4 which was 24 fps so that when I linked the together, they would link successfully.



Below you can see the original image before editing.


Below is the same image which has been edited in Lightroom.


Below is time-lapse 5.



Time-lapse 6 (Week 6)

This time-lapse was shot with a shutter speed of 1/15's at f32 with ISO 100.

I set the camera shooting at an interval of 17 seconds because the subject that I was shooting was not moving fast at all the so I used a longer interval time so every frame that was shot, the clock hands had moved slightly. The camera was shooting for an hour.

I imported all the images into Lightroom classic cc and used the sync button in order to allow for all changes that I make to one image, to be applied to all the images that Imported into the catalog.

To begin, I decreased the highlights to -70 which made the brickwork on the clock tower darker and it also darkened the sky on the left because it was quite overexposed so this made the sky look a lot more vivid. Next, I increased the whites to +45. This slightly increased the brightness of the clock face. I then upped the clarity to +62 which made the details pop such as the brickwork and the leaves on the tree. I then removed the chromatic aberration and applied lens corrections. Due to the fact I shot in RAW I exported the images as JPEGS to make processing in Photoshop much faster.



Once I had exported all the edited images from Lightroom, I loaded them all into Photoshop via "Load Files Into Stack'. I then used the 'Create Frame Animation' button to turn the first layer into a frame in the timeline at the bottom of the workspace, in the top right corner of the timeline, there is a drop down menu in which there was a tool, 'Make Frames From Layers' which I used to turn the different layers into frames for the time lapse. I used the most common frame rate of 24 fps.


 Below you can see the original image before editing.


Below is the same image which has been edited in Lightroom.


Below is time-lapse 6.



Time-lapse 7 (Week 6)

This time-lapse was shot with a shutter speed of 1/60's at f29 with ISO 100.

I set the camera shooting at an interval of 3 seconds. I chose this interval because the clouds were moving quite quick but I wanted the change in the motion to be quite dramatic.

I imported all the images into Lightroom classic cc and used the sync button in order to allow for all changes that I make to one image, to be applied to all the images that Imported into the catalog.

I started by increasing the contrast to +28. This made the clouds that are in the foreground stand out in contrast to the clouds in the background. I then increased the highlights to +30. This intensified the highlights within some of the clouds. Next, I upped the whites to +24 which made the images brighter. However, I did not want to increase this too much as it would have looked to dull. Next, I decreased the blacks to -26. This added some depth to the images. Lastly, I upped the clarity to +35 which made the entire sky more bold rather than the edges of the clouds blending in with the next of the images. I then removed chromatic aberration and enabled the profile corrections.



Once I had exported all the edited images from Lightroom, I loaded them all into Photoshop via "Load Files Into Stack'. I then used the 'Create Frame Animation' button to turn the first layer into a frame in the timeline at the bottom of the workspace, in the top right corner of the timeline, there is a drop down menu in which there was a tool, 'Make Frames From Layers' which I used to turn the different layers into frames for the time lapse. I used the most common frame rate of 24 fps.


Below you can see the original image before editing.


Below is the same image which has been edited in Lightroom.


Below is time-lapse 7.




Time-lapse 8 (Week 7)

This time-lapse was shot with a shutter speed of 20 seconds at f3.5 with ISO 1250.

I set the camera shooting at an interval of 5 seconds which was a bit of a mistake because I should have set the interval to about 30 seconds. However, this interval did give me some motion.

I imported all the images into Lightroom classic cc and used the sync button in order to allow for all changes that I make to one image, to be applied to all the images that Imported into the catalog.

I began by enabling profile corrections and then getting rid of the vignetting by increasing vignetting to 200. Because the images are were light due to the moon light, I had to find the best edits to make this slightly darker. Next, I set the highlights to +54. This made the bottom left of the images a little bit brighter so that the images had some graduated look and to also make the dark stars more vivid and clearer. I then lowered the shadows to -81 which made the clouds appear darker which cross over the stars which makes for a really impressive look. Next, dropped the blacks down to -64, this made the sky at the top of the images darker. I really like the way that the stars can be seen more clearer nearer the top than the bottom. I think it is very effective. Lastly, upped the clarity to +15 which made all the stars clear rather than looking soft.



Once I had exported all the edited images from Lightroom, I loaded them all into Photoshop via "Load Files Into Stack'. Because the time-lapse would have been around 4 seconds in long, I decided to duplicate the frames to double the length of the time-lapse. I did this by clicking 'create frame animation and then selecting one frame at a time. I used the duplicate frame tool which put a duplicated frame right after the original frame. I then used a frame rate of 24 fps.




Below you can see the original image before editing.

Below is the same image which has been edited in Lightroom.


Below is time-lapse 8.



Time-lapse 9 (Week 7)

This time-lapse was shot with a shutter speed of 2.5 seconds at f22 with ISO 100.

I set the camera shooting at an interval of 1 seconds because there was a lot of fast motion in the frames.

I imported all the images into Lightroom classic cc and used the sync button in order to allow for all changes that I make to one image, to be applied to all the images that Imported into the catalog.

I have not done mass amount of editing for this time-lapse because the images were to dark and if I edited them to much, it would have made the images look very odd and extremely noisy. I started editing by decreasing the shadows to -27. This made parts of the images darker so that the light trails from the cars stand out and are more eye catching. I lastly increased the clarity to +20. This increased the amount of detail that can be seen in the images such as the detail of the road as its not so glossy and soft looking anymore. I also used the guid tool to make the images straight.


Once I had exported all the edited images from Lightroom, I loaded them all into Photoshop via "Load Files Into Stack'. I then used the 'Create Frame Animation' button to turn the first layer into a frame in the timeline at the bottom of the workspace, in the top right corner of the timeline, there is a drop down menu in which there was a tool, 'Make Frames From Layers' which I used to turn the different layers into frames for the time lapse. I used a frame rate of 24 fps.


Below you can see the original image before editing.


Below is the same image which has been edited in Lightroom.


Below is time-lapse 9.



Time-lapse 10 (Week 7)

This time-lapse was shot with a shutter speed of 1 second at f5.6 with ISO 100.

I set the camera shooting at an interval of 1 seconds because there was a lot of fast motion in the frames with the cars moving and the interval had to be fast to capture the change of the traffic lights.

I imported all the images into Lightroom classic cc and used the sync button in order to allow for all changes that I make to one image, to be applied to all the images that Imported into the catalog.

I firstly dropped the exposure to -1.70 which made the light trails from the cars show a lot more vibrant in comparison to the background. I then increased the highlights to +38 to make the highlights in the traffic lights and light trails more bright. I then bumped the clarity to +18 to make the small details show more clearly. I then removed the chromatic aberration and applied lens corrections. Lastly, I used the guide tool to make the images straight.



Once I had exported all the edited images from Lightroom, I loaded them all into Photoshop via "Load Files Into Stack'. I then used the 'Create Frame Animation' button to turn the first layer into a frame in the timeline at the bottom of the workspace, in the top right corner of the timeline, there is a drop down menu in which there was a tool, 'Make Frames From Layers' which I used to turn the different layers into frames for the time lapse. I used a frame rate of 24 fps.


Below you can see the original image before editing.


Below is the same image which has been edited in Lightroom.


Below is time-lapse 10.







Time-lapse 11 (Week 8)

This time-lapse was shot with a shutter speed of 1/60's at f4.0 with ISO 100.

I set the camera shooting at an interval of 30 seconds because the shadows were moving quite slowly so I did not want to end up with loads of images which were very similar with small amounts of motion captured.

I imported all the images into Lightroom classic cc and used the sync button in order to allow for all changes that I make to one image, to be applied to all the images that Imported into the catalog.

I began by increasing the exposure to +2.30 because images were to dark, I did this to brighten the images. I then decreased the shadows to -4 because they were too dark but I also did not want to make them to soft. I changed the temperature of the images to +46 to make the images look warmer and to give it an evening feel as the sun is setting in the golden hour.



 Once I had exported all the edited images from Lightroom, I loaded them all into Photoshop via "Load Files Into Stack'. Because the time-lapse would have been around 2 seconds in long, I decided to duplicate the frames to double the length of the time-lapse. I did this by clicking 'create frame animation and then selecting one frame at a time. I used the duplicate frame tool which put a duplicated frame right after the original frame. I then used a frame rate of 24 fps.


Below you can see the original image before editing.


Below is the same image which has been edited in Lightroom.


Below is time-lapse 11.



The Final Major Project (Week 8)

I got rid of the black bars for every single short time-lapse by clicking on each individual time-lapse and then changing the scale to around 119 and then changing the position so that it fit best making sure that important feature of the time-lapse was not cropped at all. 

Below is the screenshots that I took for every single time-lapse in Adobe Premier Pro













  
Below is the final product.













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