Timelapse means that you take several photographs in a particular interval during a certain period of time and put these pictures together into a movie. This allows you to show hours in only a few seconds.

You may choose an interval of 5 seconds which means you take one picture each 5 seconds. Then you decide how long you want to shoot. Let’s say you will be taking pictures each 5 seconds during 2 hours. You will end up having 1440 pictures taken in 2 hours. However, a movie is nothing else than a certain amount of pictures (frames) per second. Usually, I take a frame rate of 29 frames per second for the movie. Now, if you took 1440 photographs in 2 hours and you put them together into a movie (29 frames per second) you will end up having a movie of about 48 seconds. However, this means your timelapse will now show 2 hours in only 48 seconds.

This technique enables to visualize movements that usually won’t get noticed because they are too slow in reality. I think this is so fascinating! So many times I was thinking that nothing really moved or nothing did happen at all. But when I put my photographs into a timelapse it just got amazing and things I didn’t see at all were moving. Suddenly, you realize how incredible the colors of the sky were changing or how clouds got formed behind the peak of a mountain. Timelapse visualizes the beauty and magic of our planet.

I will soon post some more of my timelapse movies here. Please click the links below. These are just some examples… I am still working on putting timelapses together and I am trying to compose songs that could fit. You may also find my own music on my music page The PD Project.