Time lapse - Driving

Today, I try my luck at Bukit Hijau, a reserved forest near my 'old' hometown to look for mushroom for photographing. But couldn't find any.

While returning home, a thought crosses my mind, "why not trying to fix my camera on the left sit and make a time lapse along my journey?"

So here is the result, a driving time lapse covering the journey from Bakai (the village where Bukit Hijau is located) to Kulim (my new hometown as my parents have moved out recently).

The journey is about 30 min, and I intent to shoot at 1 sec interval between frames. Hence, 30 min x 60 frames per sec = 1,800 frames!! So I insert a 16G flash memory into the camera, and set the picture quality to medium size Jpeg to avoid memory over flow.

As I don't own any special tools like suction cup etc, to fix the camera, I have to come up with some 'innovative' approach. My ad-hoc setting is as follow:

The timer remote controller from ebay... really cheap and cheerful deal :)

See, I only added a hair band in my gear list :)

By the end of the journey, I ended up shooting 2,285 frames, occupied 6.12 GB!

(start time = 12.55pm, end time= 1.34pm)

I put all the frames together using Window Movie Maker 2011, duration of frame = 0.04 sec (25 frames per second). Then I re-render the finished video in Window Movie Maker 2011 again for the sepia effect and the music.

By the way, at the left where my car stop by at the beginning of the video (00:12) is my old home.

Canon 5D markII, 16-35 mm L

Interval between frames: 1 sec

Picture quality: Medium Jpeg

Exposure: Manual

ISO: 160

F-stop: 11