Visual Verification

Frisbee night, yadda yadda yadda, you're not getting a story out of me.

But, what you will get instead, are some videos, that show what I'm planning to do in Spain will work. The more and more I've thought about what I want to do, the more I honestly began to doubt it. Most time lapses are from a set angle or perspective and where there is camera movement, it is very controlled and super precise. With me having the camera strapped to me as I walk, I was concerned that my footage would be too jarring to show everyone - too jumpy or distracting for the viewer. In my head, I thought that I'd need to walk very rigidly, trying to not move too vertically - minimizing how my steps shifted my body.

Sure, I could go about this a completely different way and bring a tripod with me, taking a picture, moving a few feet, setting up, snapping another, etc. But come on, this would take forever and I honestly don't have the time (I'm cutting it close enough with my layover time as is).

So I've done some reasearch. Watched some other videos. Did some reading. Everything going on in my head seems very possible. Sure, depending on how radically one photo position is from the next, you'll notice it, but everything also relies on how fast or slow I show each photo (I could always smooth over awkward jumps by speeding things up). Throughout all my research, I found this one guy, who has gone around and shot some time lapses in much the same fashion I plan on shooting mine. From what I can tell, based on the length between shots, the constant walking, and his using a normal DSLR camera, instead of the action cam I'll be using, he did not use a tripod. A.K.A. what I plan on doing is totally feasible.

Wahoo! Crisis averted. 

Check below for some of his videos - I think they are a good preview of I'm trying to do - except mine will be 100% better or so I hope (he shot each using around 2000 photos, I plan on many more than that. Smoothness/Quality of time lapse = number of photos. The more you have, the better/less jarring everything is).

Enjoy!

                                                                                                                           

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