I’m currently documenting the life of my grandmother, the only grandparent I have left. It’s a long-term personal project that I started in August 2008. During the last few years, several deaths occured in our family from which my grandmother never recovered. Beginning in 2009 she started to suffer from short-term memory loss and as a result, she is losing her grip on reality.
To show you how I select and arrange images in order to obtain a smaller selection for my final story, I created this short video. I can arrange the images in Lightroom as well, but the approach I show you allows me to keep a clear overwiew, which is not always possible on a computer screen as you are limited to the size of the screen. In my studio I have several walls at my disposal so I can split different parts of my story onto different walls. When I work on multiple projects I can assign each story to another wall. I can also leave the prints on the wall as long as I want to.
My project is not finished yet. I will continue to document her life as long as needed, by this, meaning as long as the images contribute to the story I want to tell. If you want to be updated on this project, I invite you to subscribe to this blog. If you have any questions regarding this project, you can ask them in the comments below.
For those of you who are interested, I edited this timelapse video in Adobe Premiere Pro. There are probably several software solutions available which provide similar options to create such a timelapse, however, as I want to be able to edit some more advanced videos in the future, Adobe Premiere Pro turned out to be a very good choice. Until now it has proven to be an extensive and valuable tool.
All the images I used for this video were recorded using the Interval Timer Shooting feature which can be found in the Shooting Menu on almost every Nikon DSLR. I had set the timer to capture an image every two seconds. A total of 999 images were used for this presentation.
You can import the images in your project through the menu “File – Import”. As demonstrated in my screenshot, you select the first image from the list, tick the option “Numbered Stills” and then you further select the rest of the images. This way Adobe Premiere Pro knows this selection has to be converted to a clip.
Afterwards you can change the frame rate in order to speed up or slow down the duration of the clip. Select the clip in the Project Manager, go to the menu and choose “Clip – Modify – Interpret Footage”. By default the frame rate will usually be 25 fps. For the purpose of my timelapse I changed the frame rate to 15 fps.
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Well done Serge. Tx for the info.
interesting read!
nice, very nice vid.
keep it up.