From Still to Motion: A photographer’s guide to creating video with your DSLR

Chapter 20. Time Floats By

Creating Time-lapse Animation

This final exploration into creating video with a DSLR will feel like familiar ground. Time-lapse photography is the closest thing to how you already shoot as a still photographer. It’s essentially clicking a shutter and making a single image over and over again—potentially thousands of times sequentially.

If you’ve ever shot in burst mode, letting your camera shoot three or more exposures in rapid succession, you get the idea. By capturing images in a sequence, you can record a scene at a much slower frame rate than with video. You can also capture larger image sizes and even use raw images. ...