An Evening in Little Corona

[JimFox]

On Friday night I ran down to Little Corona Beach in Corona Del Mar California as we had storms coming in and I thought I could catch some nice clouds and maybe a nice sunset. I used this time to also do more work on Timelapses. As most of you will know by now Ben and I are having a blast learning how to do timelapse photography and I think we keep improving little by little.

On the drive there, besides wanting to capture timelapses on 2 of my Nikons, I wanted to put the GoPro Hero 7 Black through some more paces. I came up with this idea of taking both video and timelapse and merging them both into a combo video. Not sure what it would be called? Anyway, as you watch this you will see what I did. I liked the result quite a bit.

Now the GoPro does have some issues and I knew with the sunset the biggest one would be it's lack of dynamic range, so I would have to deal with some blown out areas. I tried to avoid shooting straight into the sun. It was great that the clouds did help to block some of the direct sunlight onto the camera. You will also notice if you look carefully some wide angle distorion occasionally. By default the GoPro shoots an almost fisheye view. I have it selected to not be as wide as that, but there still is some horizon curvature, etc.. I don't think it's too bothersome.

I hope you guys enjoy this one, I think this is a style I can build off of for travel videos, etc..

Jim

 

[Ben Egbert]

Good one Jim. My only observation is that I might slow down the TL sections a bit. That first one zips from video to fast motion pretty fast and a bit jarring. I need to refine my intro and end titles to look more like yours.

 

[JimFox]

Thanks Ben! Yeah, I think you should start doing some real timelapses instead of the experiments. It would be nice to see finished time lapses from your work.

I did slow down the timelapses 50% already. Maybe the water isn’t as conducive to timelapse since it’s so fast moving anyway. The front section I had chosen that speed because I wanted it to feel like I was zipping down from where I parked to The start of the trail. Thanks for the feedback, I will look at those sections again.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Hey Jim, sorry to be loading up the forum with practice, but I am thinking I am getting to the end of it. I think I have a formula for a flicker free Time lapse from my 5DSR. Now I will apply what I learned to the R5.

The next step for me is file management and storage. I am thinking about going to raw time lapse when I get out to good locations. But I will need to be ruthless in culling and deleting whole tl sequences.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Nicely done, Jim. I like the music as well.

 

[AlanLichty]

This is transitioning from experiments into more compelling viewing. I like this beach - I spent a lot of time playing around in the tide pools just around the corner at Corona Del Mar but have never visited this side of the cliffs that separate the two beaches.

 

[Alisa]

VERY nice Jim!! love this one.

 

[JimFox]

This is transitioning from experiments into more compelling viewing. I like this beach - I spent a lot of time playing around in the tide pools just around the corner at Corona Del Mar but have never visited this side of the cliffs that separate the two beaches.

Thanks so much Alan.

 

[Aaron Macomber]

These are cool Jim! I’m hoping to dabble around with this as well when time allows. I upgraded my gopro this year to the 9 black and its quite the camera.. I’ve used it mountain biking but havent really dug in as yet. Soon!

 

[JimFox]

These are cool Jim! I’m hoping to dabble around with this as well when time allows. I upgraded my gopro this year to the 9 black and its quite the camera.. I’ve used it mountain biking but havent really dug in as yet. Soon!

Thanks Aaron, I appreciate that.

I am using my Hero 7 Black for these, and had been happy with it until I tried to trail run with it. Then the horizon bobs all over as my head moves. I found out that starting with the Hero 8 Black that they added a Horizon leveling feature. So I am now thinking on upgrading so I can get that, not sure if I get either the Hero 8 or 9 yet, I have seen some really good deals on the 8, but 9 seems to have upgraded the Timewarp, etc so it just might be worth it.