The weather here in Chamonix has been overcast and rainy for ever. At least it seems that way. But it must have been at least 2 weeks since I last saw the sun and with the mountains closing you in on all sides, having a roof of cloud overhead can get quite oppressive after a while. The weather forecast isn’t exactlyencouraging for the coming week either.

So I’ve been stuck in the office for a while, and started to do some ‘sperimentin with my new video camera. Specifically I’ve been learning how to do Time Lapse Photography. It’s basically a case of setting up the camera to take a still photo at regular intervals of, say, every minute. Leave the thing for an hour or two to do it’s thing and then import the photos onto your computer. I used photoshop’s batch processing feature to add colouring effects to the entire set of photos and then created a video file from the series of stills using Quicktime PrO.

Pretty basic I guess, but it’s a start and as soon as the weather changes I’m going to find a much better subject and give it another go. Here’s the results from my first try at time lapse photography.

Learning To Time Lapse from chris dorward on Vimeo.

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