Scarlet Tulip

Scarlet Tulip Time Lapse

I went to the store the other day.  I have to walk through the flower shop to get to the produce.  I saw unopened buds and thought of the lily.  Carol got another flower.

I set it up in another room so that I could go on living while I made the captures.  I set the camera on "S jpeg" since I can not make 4k time lapses at the current time.  It saved a lot of disc space, too.

I just went ahead and processed the JPEGs as such and Time Lapse Tool had no complaints.  

The flowers started moving toward the warm, air temp, light, Logan slide viewing table, and ruined my composition.  I decided to "harvest" the captures so far, 700, and recompose as I progress on.  At the time of this writing, It has been going for 2 days.  I just changed cards in the camera and it continued on.

I still had to use "task manager" to close the application.  I have received no data on what to do from the publisher.  I am stubborn enough not to buy software that does not work correctly with my system.  I think that closing the app is important.

You can see the preliminary time lapse.  It is at the bottom.

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Sigma 180mm Macro

Scotch Photo Adhesive Over Spray step large

 The Sigma 180mm marco returned from Sigma on the 26th.  I wanted to check it right away so I shot three series with it yet that afternoon.  These captures are all at distane of .9m, far below 1x.  This one was shot at step large on CamRanger and f/8.  I see no movement.

Scotch Photo Adhesive Over Spray step medium

These "growths" are building in my little spray tent were I spray the Scotch Photo Adhesive.  This one was shot with CamRanger at step medium and f/5.6.  Again I see no movement.  They found nothing wrong with the lens so this is what I would expect to see.

Scotch Photo Adhesive Over Spray step small

I have not used this lens for this type of photography.  It has a greater working distance but the same 1x max and speed of the 105mm.

I think that I can seem more detail in the series made with step small.  The stack contained 630 captures.  The stack captured with step medium contained 31 captures and the large step stack 5.

I am still trying to understand the different step sizes offered by CamRanger.  I assume that the smaller step size would offer greater detail.

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Time Lapse Tool

I have been considering the purchase of Time Lapse Tool.  It did a good job making the Lily Time Lapse.

It is able to make 4K time lapses. but it requires the Pro Version and costs $ 129.00.  It also requires 16 GB of Ram of which my computer has only 8.  So I could not make 4K videos without a memory upgrade.

The "Personal" version costs $ 49.00 and will do only 720P videos.  I am unsure whether I do enough times lapses to warrant the $ 49.00 expenditure.  

There is an issue of the software performing in Windows 7 Pro.  The website says it will, but I can not close the application without using "Windows Task Manager."  I find that is a big hurdle for me.  Supposedly, only the Pro Version of Time Lapse Tool comes with e-mail support.  There is a forum but I could not find anyone experiencing that issue.  There were other issues, such as the software refusing to acknowledge a computer as being on line.  I read that some have experienced the loss of use of the software and being forced to resubmit the activation key again.  Another person received, by e-mail, a special key.  What would I do if I had only the Personal Version?  I think that I will wait to see if I need it badly.

I did submit a question about the "closing the app" issue.  Let's see if an answer comes forth.  I don't expect that it will since I am only evaluating the software.

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Time Lapse Continuation

Time Lapse Tool Image Import

 I ended up with 623 images from my primary camera.  I had manually removed a few in preliminary editing.  I had another 426 from the secondary camera.  I had hoped to vary the view from camera to camera to create interest.  AVS4YOU became unwieldy during my efforts to do this.  I had hoped to find software which would give me at least two sequences of images I could choose from.  I did not find it.

Time Lapse Tool chooses which images it wants to use and uses them.  It turns out a sequence that works but I would like to choose for myself.  I was unable to import the images from my secondary camera because they were not a sequence in totality.  I would like to interpolate images from my secondary camera.  I was able to do this in AVS4YOU but the process was very "wooden" and I was unhappy with the result.  I needed them spread out so I could move them around and see the result.

I might have had better success in Time Lapse Tool had I grouped the secondary camera images into sequences manually.  I should probably do this before I give my final word on this.

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More Lily Timelapse

Time Lapse Tutorial

I looked around on the Web for Windows timelapse assembly software and found one that I liked, Time Lapse Tool.

I discovered that Adobe Photoshop CS6 and CC6 will assemble timelapse images but was unable to negotiate the free trial.  It would have cost me $10 per month to use CC6.  CS6 is cost prohibitive in my view.  There is no upgrade discount.

Time Lapse Tool, on the other hand is very reasonable and it also gives the option to try before you buy.  It has some features which helped improve my series of captures, one of which is Deflicker.  I learned that you must set all settings to manual.  I had hedged on the issue since I set up the shoot in what is essentially my kitchen.  I knew this might take a couple days.

Lily Time Lapse Camera Setup

I had not thought through how I could eat while this process was going on without changing light levels.  I set ISO to "auto" to hedge a little.  I learned that choice caused flicker in the series as you may have noticed Friday, next to last one.  Time Lapse Tool came to the rescue and greatly improved the flicker, bottom or last one.

"flicker" is one of the several effects available: 

• Black & White
• Brightness
• Brightness Transition
• Camera Transition
• Contrast
• Deflicker
• Directional Blur
• Hue
• Mirror
• Pixelate
• Rotation
• Saturation
• Shooting Info
• Tilt Focus
• Tone Curve
• Vignette
• Watermark
• Zoom & Move

The other effect I used was "Camera Transition".  

Camera Transition Screenshot

You can choose which movement you desire, as you can see.

I originally shot the series with two cameras.  I was able to keep the primary camera going almost continuously.  I have three batteries for two cameras.  I tried to keep the extra one charged.  I did have the primary camera go "dead" during one over night.

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