Time lapse photography newbie...help!

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Jstein - 21 Jun 2008 14:18 GMT

Hello everyone,

I have recently started experimenting with time lapse photography. I
have successfully shot sequences during the day & during the night but
where I'm having trouble is shooting a time lapse that runs during
both. Last night in fact, I set up to shoot the sun rising over the
street from my window. I set the program to start from 4:30 to
10:30. About half way through, the images started gradually getting
washed out and unreadable. I was under the impression that when
shooting time lapse the camera should be set to manual exposure with
white balance locked in. If this is the case, and you are not around
to adjust the camera, how does one take long time lapses? I am
shooting a Canon Rebel XTI with DSLR photo software for Windows. Any
help you can provide would be much appreciated. Thanks,

-Jesse

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Bob Kirkpatrick - 23 Jun 2008 18:51 GMT

> Hello everyone,
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> -Jesse

You will not be able to get day and night pictures with the same
manual exposure. You might get away with a single white balance. If
you leave the camera on auto exposure, the evening/night sky will be
too bright. If you must do this unattended, you can make one sequence
with a night exposure you like and another with a daytime exposure you
like on two successive days and then combine the beginning of one
sequence with the end of the other. You may want to do this in three
or four sections. If you want to clouds and such to match, just get
(rent?) three more XTI's and set exposures for day, sunset, twilight,
and night, run them all at the same time and combine the properly
exposed sections.

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