There's something about time-lapse videos that grabs your attention a little more than your average YouTube video. Especially popular on Vimeo, these videos often capture scenes like a starry night, a cityscape, or snow piling up over the course of a particularly rough storm.
Sometimes, the camera stays in one spot, monitoring a scene from just one angle. But the most beautiful time lapses involve movement -- the camera pans across the scene over the course of an hour (or longer) to capture change over time on a 360-degree angle.
It sounds complicated. Like, too much work. But, the reality is that it takes no more than 10 minutes to put together a rotating tripod made just for time lapse shooting.
With this setup, what we produced wasn't as alluring as a time-lapsed starry sky, but a pretty cool video of time passing and skies changing at a busy San Francisco corner:
GoPro goes 360
Shooting a time-lapse video is as easy as setting up your camera (or phone) to shoot in intervals, and sticking it on a tripod. But to capture a 360-degree angle, you'll need a rotating tripod accessory.
You can purchase one of these attachments for around $40, but fuggetabout that -- you can do it yourself for much less. Here's how.
You'll need:
- Flat-topped windup kitch... [Read more]
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