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Time Lapse photo = possibilities
« on: May 26, 2011, 10:14:52 PM »
This was in the latest issue of Popular Science.
Source @ popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/articles/TimeLapse.jpg
If you can find the mag, the pic there is much more clear and detailed.

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Re: Time Lapse photo = possibilities
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2011, 09:02:24 PM »
I knowive heard of time lapse photos a long time ago but I can't seem to remember what they are. Care to explain?

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Re: Time Lapse photo = possibilities
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2011, 04:01:29 AM »
You just take a photograph of something over a long time span, so things that're there for a long time becomes sharply defined and things that move around or change become fuzzy.

Doing it with astronomy gets you some pretty cool results as you see the tracks of stellar motion..
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Re: Time Lapse photo = possibilities
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2011, 04:27:18 PM »
That is an awesomely cool pic. I want a demi-plane just like that for every wizard I play from now on. :D
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Re: Time Lapse photo = possibilities
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2011, 06:32:34 PM »
Miz R --- veekie's got it.
The upper part of the pic is just a camera left open all night.
I've no idea about the camera work specifics.
The lower part is a set of photos imposed on each other.
Can't take a straight photo of the Sun without burning things.
iirc - the article goes into the details.


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