Beach sunset

So we stayed at a beach a couple of days last month. It was a bit crappy because every afternoon the skies became all cloudy. We never got a chance to see a clear sky the whole week we were at the beach. One of the best days we were there I just decided to set up my Go pro camera to take a sunset time lapse shot. 

Unfortunately I only had my monopod with me when I did this. So I had to stick the Go pro into the monopod and held it down with the straps from my bag. A big no-no for time lapse shots as you have to keep it steady. The camera slipped in the middle of the time lapse and I had to reposition it.

The final wasn't bad. Maybe next time I won't forget my tripod.

Sunrise time-lapse with my Go Pro camera

One morning while near a lake in Tomahawk Wisconsin, I waited for sunrise. I looked at my phone and the weather app said that sunrise will be around 5:25ish. This was the perfect time to set up my Go Pro for that awesome sunrise to come.

I set it up on a tripod by the dock, turned off the lcd screen and set up time lapse mode. This camera is way easier to setup for time lapse than a dslr with a timer. I know because up to this time I still haven't used the time lapse module that I bought for my dslr...it's still in the packaging, brand new and unused.

So I pressed the button and the camera just shot frame by frame...once every 5 seconds. I managed to take 837 images, and processed everything using Adobe Premiere. All in all it gave me about 27 seconds of video.