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Originally Posted by awest
Sounds like you're ready to go! I don't have much experience with time lapse plants, but I do with other stop motion video. You're using a GoPro. Do they have a stop-motion feature? How cool.
I'd recommend in the future using a photography camera with an intervelometer. GoPros as far as I know all have a serious fisheye effect, which might distort your flower. If you have a digital SLR camera it will also give you specific controls for much better light control. Since the camera's not moving and the light doesn't change you can do all kinds of things with aperture and shutter speed without making any compromise in the ISO settings.
Of course the GoPro has the advantage of being small for nestling in with plants as well as being water resistant. Plus, I imagine they have a better battery life if an outlet's not near by.
If stuff gets moved during it might be better to switch completely to a different angle rather than try to recreate the exact image. If possible though fix anything and everything in place with screws, duck tape, sand bags, whatever you have. In my experience anything that can move, will.
P.S. I'm a little jealous. I can take stop motion and grow plants, but can't grow plants were I can take stop-motion. Best of luck. I'm excited for the results.
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The GoPro is pretty good, but obviously not as good as a Nikon would be, of course it's a lot cheaper too! I have a fake battery that has a cord coming out the skeleton back and into a AC/DC converter into a wall plug. Note, a long USB charger plug with a skeleton case works too, but creates a lot more heat and can cause the camera to turn off by itself due to overheating (I had this problem myself), hence the fake battery solution that generates far less heat.
This is infuriatingly slow and I've had to move things around because the flower was pointing the wrong way, I had to put a stake in it with a clip, a light bulb broke, etc., etc., etc.
But it looks like it's about to open, so once in starts, then it will go fast. I don't know what I'll do with the rest of the footage since it will be quite uninteresting and disjointed.
As far as stop motion, not sure exactly what you mean, it can do time lapse and the software can turn it into a movie. I guess if you mean manually pressing the shutter button when you want to take a frame that would work the same way. And the software that comes with it de-fisheyes it pretty well, so that's not too much of an issue.
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Oh, by the way, I made this little snippet within 24 hours of opening the GoPro box with just the GoPro and the included free software. I've since learned how to make it look much better, but it's pretty good for just less than a day of playing with it!
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Oh, I almost forgot, I did this one too:
Hybrid Mode
