How to Photograph a DAY TO NIGHT TIMELAPSE | Sony A7iii Timelapse 

That’s awesome!! I’m glad You can understand almost everything I’m saying...if it helps, you can turn on subtitles as well to help. If there’s anything you’re not sure about, you can always email me and I’ll help as much as possible. 😁👍

@@mikesphotography Thanks a lot for all the tips and for answering :) Just keep going like that for your vidéos :ok:

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No worries Bill, great to hear I could help! The A6600 is a great little camera ... I have one as well and take it out to shoot when I want to travel super light. Thanks for watching 😁👍

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That's great to har Bill! It is amazing that even when gimbals have been calibrated, the amount of drift you get over time. That has happened with all of the gimbals I have owned over the years. Great to hear you got something useable from it though. I've often thought of trying to get some astrophotography pics from a moving boat with the use of a gimbal ... maybe one day when I get my super-yacht!! 😆😆 Thanks for your kind words and thanks for watching 😁👍

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Thanks for the info Dane, yep this is true, I just prefer to look at the 3x2 aspect ratio so I can see the whole image and work out which part of the image I am going to use...although every now and then, I completely forget about this and then am too cropped in with the final shot. Having it in 16x9 is a great way not to forget this! Thanks for watching! 😁👍

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That's great to hear! I'm glad my tutorials are helping! It's well worth trying...I'm going to do a day to astro time-lapse to put in the editing video...it'll be interesting to see how it copes with that! Thanks for watching! 👍

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Great to hear Mr Lamb! The A7C is a fantastic little camera ... I use mine all the time now. Thanks for watching 😁👍

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Thanks so much for the info Gilles, a great bit of research! It is amazing how it changes as you more towards the equator. The photo planning apps are great aren’t they...I’m trying out planit pro and the photographers ephemeris at the moment to see which one does what. Thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated. 👍

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Thanks so much for the kind words...and for the sub! 😁 Welcome to the community! Lots more to come as well! 😁👍

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@@mikesphotography I think you face challenges about low light grains n noises, would you please tell how to resolve this issue, I am using sony A7c. which colour profile give less noise in production. Thanks again for your video that is really helpful.

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And thanks for watching James! 😁👍

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Great to hear!! This was a fun one to do and I learned a lot in making it as well! 😁👍

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Great to hear it has helped Eddie. There are a lot of little nuances in timelapses that are really important to get right. Thanks for watching 😁👍

No worries, thanks for watching Taylor. 👍

Thanks so much! The timelapse function is definitely a great addition to this camera!! ... and once you get a good timelapse, it can get quite addictive! Thanks for watching and let me know how you get on! 😁👍

That's a good point Marc... Although I've never really had a problem with the batteries. Thanks for the tip. 😁👍

How you turn off the screen...? I never find this option! I can decrease the light but not turn off.

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Thanks for the info Levin! Do you use LRtimelapse at all in this process to get a completely smooth transition? Also, do you use the interval function in camera or an external intervalometer? Thanks for watching 👍

@@mikesphotography No Worries Mike, happy to help out as it is difficult to find detailed info about this feature. Everyone says you can do it and then just repeats the info in the Sony manual. Your video is the only one I could find that gave a really good explanation of HOW to use it in real life so thanks for that. All this was done using the internal Sony Interval Shooting Function. No external intervalometers at all. I do have and use Edelkrone heads and sliders which will be my next experiment but everything mentioned is with the camera only. Yes I still use LR timelapse pro for all my timelapse work but my tests indicated that while using the auto ISO, it get a little flicker but LRT was easily able to reduce it to virtually nothing. The flicker is caused by the occasional change in ISO between a few images when it is on the cusp of needing to change. It might be at ISO 200 and then one image will be at ISO250 then the next back to 200. You might get this jumping of ISO for say 3 in 10 images until it darkens enough to lock it at 250 until the next auto change. While the luminance value barely changes it is enough to just cause a little flicker. When I used a set ISO of 100 and then increased it manually as needed (once the aperture had opened completely and I had extended the speed out to 10sec), I ended up with no flicker at all and LRT didn't really have to do anything. The down side of changing the ISO manually is towards the end I had an interval of 11secs with a shutter speed of 10secs. Therefore the shutter is open and the screen is blank for 10 seconds. When you open the ISO window and change it, you can't see anything because the screen is blank taking the photo. It will change the ISO successfully between shots but you really need to know how to do that by feel and have a deep understanding of which buttons and how many turns to change it to your desired setting because it is all done blind. There is now only a 1 second window between shots to confirm your changes. This is also not great while the shutter is open as you can introduce image blur because you are shaking it when changing the settings. I tried using the Sony Imaging Edge Mobile app to control the camera during this so I wouldn't have to touch it and make all changes remotely from the app but the moment you invoke the Intvl Shooting Func, it kicks the app off line and won't have a bar of it. Pity because it would make the perfect solution. So the best result was using manual ISO but it is challenging. Auto ISO still gave an excellent result after I ran it through LRTimelapse. Results can be viewed at ru-vid.com/show-UC_WA_CFINHy24j679Wno_8w Sorry for the long reply.

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Thanks so much! I'm glad my tutorials are helping!! The tamron is a fantastic lens ins't it, I'm looking at getting the 17-28mm really soon! Thanks for watching! 😁

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As always thanks Patrick, much appreciated!! 😁👍

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Excellent! Hong Kong should be great for these! 😁👍

Excellent! Did it work!?

Mike Smith Didn’t get the high clouds but did it anyway. Going to edit it tonight. Thanks.

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Hi Reiner, Great to hear it has helped. You're right...I normally edit the photos for a timelapse and then leave my computer alone whilst it process them...and come back a few hours later...it is definitely a longer workflow than just shooting video or stills that's for sure. Thanks for watching 😁👍

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Thanks so much Paul...Photopills is by far my favourite photo app, although I'm trying planit pro and the photographers ephemeris at the mo to see if there's anything better out there...might even make a comparison video on those three as well! 😁 If you're doing it a lot it would definitely be worth assigning a memory mode position for it. I was thinking it would be great to get a whole load of time lapses from around the world...it'll be interesting to see the different ones everyone sends in...I just hope my dropbox account can handle it all!! 😁👍

Haha!! I’m sure you know a little about video settings! 👍 Thanks so much for watching and commenting dude. 😁

@@mikesphotography my pleasure :)

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No worries, if you ever do, you know where to get all the info for it!! Thanks for watching! 😁👍

Thanks so much Abraham! Timelapses are quite time consuming but are great fun when you get a good one! The Nikon’s already have an intervalometer built in don’t they? Thanks

Easy start is for example shooting melting of ice cube. Shooting interval 1 second. Windows movie maker might be enough for first tests. Or some other free SW. rockynook.com/article/time-lapse-photography-for-the-nikon-d750/

That is defintiely a good one to do...unless you live in a really cold country!! 😆 I'm going to try out some different bits of software to put timelapses together for people without adobe very soon. 👍

Glad it was helpful!

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Thanks so much Thomas. I’m guessing my dad being a university lecturer, my brother, eldest sister and my wife being teachers must be influencing me! 😆 It really does motivate me to make a lot more videos hearing my tutorials are helping so much! I’d be really grateful if you could make a timelapse...it w oi led be really interesting to see how different it is in Sweden compared to here in Dubai. 😁👍

@@mikesphotography Influenced by your siblings? Or genetics? I found this video on TL really useful and I'll be sending you an email shortly. I'm at Lat 35 in the western US, shoot with a Sony A7iii, or A6500, and a variety of Sony lenses.

@@mikesphotography It's in your blood😀

Thanks so much, that would be great. If you can email me at mike@boxheadmike.com, I'll send you a link to upload the time-lapse to when you get the chance to make one. Thanks for watching and commenting and offering to join in, Much appreciated! 😁

@@mikesphotography finally manage to make one. The weather has been terrible last two weeks. I have send you a mail.

Awesome, I’ll check it out ASAP! Thanks so much for sending it through. 😁👍

Great to hear Dallas, let me know how you get on! 😁👍

Haha!! I’d much prefer bad views with mountains and a good countrysides to hike through nearby...we’ve just got to work with what we’ve got. 😁👍

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Yep, I covered that in my "how to update your firmware video" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lexep3wD-3Y.html&t I have mine set to the C3 button. Thanks for watching. 👍

Thanks so much Aaron! I’m glad it has helped! 😁👍

Awesome! Let me know how you get on! 😁👍

Well, the day to night timelapse wasn't that great, but I went out very early last week to shoot a sunrise. But there is a lot of flickering, don't have a program like 'LRtimelapse' yet (but then again, I use On1 and not Lightroom). But afterwards I noticed I had the dial put on P and not A, so maybe that explains some flickering as well. Here's a link if you're interested. I shot it in the northern part of the Netherlands. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x5pQ-FcOJRA.html

Thanks very much!

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@@mikesphotography it sure did. 👍

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Thanks so much Eduardo! As soon as we're allowed back outside, I'll definitely make that tutorial!! I'm going a little bit crazy being stuck indoors at the moment!! Can't wait for the curfew to be over!! Thanks for watching. 😁👍

I waited for a cloud seeding day before shooting that one!! 😆 I do have a video on timelapses for clouds specifically as well, check it out when you have a chance: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D7lRvJdC3fg.html Thanks for watching 😁👍

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Glad it was helpful Stephan!

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No worries Lance, just got your email and replied. 😁 Thanks for watching 👍

Hi Chris, Yep, try the auto iso and interval method next time and see how you get on. The auto iso will hopefully smooth out the transitioning lighting conditions successfully next time. Let me know how you get on! 😁👍

@@mikesphotography Here is the fail if you're interested. I'm not too heartbroken as the sunrise light never materialized and my singles came out very good. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lMvEBeJ-le4.html

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Thanks so much!! 😁👍

Thanks so much Michael, glad you enjoyed it! 😁👍

That's awesome!! Those lights are fantastic on the bridge uprights and you got the right interval to get them looking good. Thanks for watching, commenting and linking me in to your post! :-)

Thanks!

Hi Jonathan, That’s interesting to hear...I used to shoot timelapses in manual mode all the time but since this function was introduced I’ve been playing around with these different settings. It does feel really strange having it in the semi automatic modes and especially auto iso as well which I normally stay well clear of. Do you have to use LRtimelapse at all to smooth out the changes? That would be great to see what you can produce and it would be interesting to see how you get on with the more auto settings. My email is mike@boxheadmike.com... if you can drop me a message I’ll send you a link to upload it to when you get the chance to get out and shoot. 😁👍

Mike Smith Yes, I use LRTimelapse. It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada so I will try the automatic settings sometime next week.

Excellent!! Happy thanksgiving!! :-)

Thanks so much Susan, I’m glad you got something from this. I haven’t done a video on astro timelpases...yet...but I have lots of other astrophotography tutorials...check out this playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLDhXA9nCkoqYeOxFC6W5hh9_AW6mapILI Also I have all of my tutorials in alphabetical order and genres to make it easier to find what your looking for: www.boxheadmike.com/youtubelinks/ Thanks 😁

It's definitely worth giving it a go...I'm guessing the holy grail title is not as fitting anymore with these more modern cameras! Thanks for watching! 👍

@@mikesphotography Today is the day, will try these settings with the rising full moon and see what I get! Just saw your video again to get it all fresh and running! Hope you are doing well with all the crazy stuff going on!

Nice one Dario! Let me know how you get on. 😁👍

@@mikesphotography Just tagged you on my instagram post! Made some keyframes in a couple of framings to spice things up! Thanks for this great tips!

It's worth giving it a go!! It takes some time but its well worth it when you get a good one at the end of it! As always, thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated! 😁👍