kushalzone | 
03 19th, 2010| 
I had seen a couple of wonderful time-lapse videos in YouTube, and I was inspired to make one. Finally after buying a rose flower from Hy-vee, I setup the camera and I was able to come up with my first rose blooming time-lapse. Here is the video.
How was this video made?
I put my DSLR camera (Canon EOS 5D Mark II) on a tripod and kept the flower by the window side. I used cable release to avoid camera shakes. Cable release is nothing but a remote trigger with a chord. Some cable releases have self timers, so you can program them to take pictures at specified interval. But the one I purchased over eBay for my testing purpose did not have one, so every now and then I had to manually press the button on my cable release. The camera and flower setup was static, meaning there was no movement of both these entities. Then I took shots at half an hour interval.
The rose denied to bloom fast, so, it took me three days for the video. The change of color (whitish to yellowish tint) is due to day and night effect. So there are three whitish tints representing three days and two yellowish tints in the picture representing two nights.
All these pictures were taken from a feet away and then later canvas was cropped from the middle so that you would only see the zoomed flower. There were around 300 pictures total, out of which I removed around 225 and selected a list of 75 pictures. The idea behind the selection was to remove the pictures that were almost identical and which would not assist much in the time-lapse video rather than delaying the blooming video. Finally selected bunch of 75 cropped pictures were then combined in Windows Movie Maker with each picture displaying for about half a second – thus forming the video.
