Just a few other tips: Some people take pictures of their children periodically. You think they grow up fast now wait until you see them in time-lapse!

Protect your camera and setup
Don't forget to put up a perimeter worthy of the finest crime scene investigator to keep kids, overly helpful people from touching the camera, and animals from disturbing the camera.

As you can see in Figure A, a little action can help an otherwise dull time-lapse like packing a suitcase. The camera hog, a particularly wild beast, was just one "roll over" from knocking over the camera!

FIGURE A


This time-lapse example helped identify a potential stow-away. Roll over picture for a larger image.

The image shown above is a GIF file, which has been animated with the frames of my still images. In a future article, I'll show you how to make your own animated time-lapse GIF image.

Jane Conner-ziser is considered one of the best retouching experts in the field, her clients include Canon, Art Leather Manufacturing Co, Marathon Press, Kodak, many of the nations largest professional color labs, and numerous studios of fine portrait and commercial photography. She is a featured trainer for Software Cinema who is a strategic partner of Adobe Systems focused on interactive learning for the digital imaging industry. For more information visit http://www.software-cinema.com.