But I've become a bit of a pansy I really have no interest in setting up in 33 degree temps then standing around while the shoot finishes. Plus here in the valley I live in we get an inverted weather situation and it creates a low cloud ceiling, kind of a bla looking sky, not that exciting.

Anyone else have trouble getting up the strength to go stand around in cold temps?

don't ask... we currently have -18° C... that's -0.4 F....
so.. timelapsing suxx atm...
and clear blue sky -.-
but even for shooting people in the city it's way too cold!

Its a damed if you do and damed if you don't situation
If you go you just might freeze to death or risk gear getting destroyed or if you don't go you just might miss that shot you been waiting for all year ?
If i plan to go out in the elements 9/10 times nothing happens, a cloud will block the sun, rain and wind will drive me to another location by then its to late.
I dont have the problem with -18c thats just insane...44c with fly's is the most extreme i have endured.

Ah the joys of this obsession, i empty my trash on the mac each month and amongst that there would be at least a half a dozen clips that just don't cut the grade,
I might only get to shoot 7-8 a month
I wonder how many other guys shoot lots of clips and end up with 1 or 2 that make it to post ?

I'll bin 75% off all shots taken at least

Thanks Owen, or should i say What a funny old obsession eh ?

Yeah I know the feeling.

I had the last 4 days off and was going to be out and shoot in the woods, but it was around 3°F here in Belgium at night and I've been sick as hell.
Ended up NOT going at all because of this, usually when you go there's always something that goes wrong

I think the key is just to get out there as much as possible, even if you have other things to do that day.
All those hours combined will eventually end up in some really good clips, a lot of "okay" ones and some bad ones.
But I think the important thing is, the more you go out, the more chance you'll have to end up with good clips

Overhere it's been a nightmare the last few weeks, it was pouring rain for 2 or 3 weeks non stop, this week it snowed and the only nights you think you can go out and shoot, there's fog everywhere, so no clear skies haha. It's like the gods are taunting me lol

For the past six days Chronos and my Canon 60d have been in my basement documenting the process of a Banana rotting and testing to see how well 0.0045 inch movement intervals look.

its an easy way to feel productive while i do other things.

..and then Jack Ripper is inviting us all over for some mmmhome-baked banana bread (the blacker the bananas, the better).

I've only made two timelapses in the winter - one *through* my windows, the other *on* my windows. I can handle the cold, but my camera/battery can't for any length of time. I'll often go for drives and take stills from the briefly-opened car window. And then it can just as easily be 104F/40C and humid here in the summer, which is a bit miserable too. Especially with the mosquitos. I have a vid from last Aug that always annoys me because it's missing a few frames due to running from the little bloodsuckers and getting too far from the camera with the intervalometer remote in my pocket. It's gonna be -16F/-27C tonight - brrr. But ahh, it was a balmy 3C and sunny on the weekend and I went and sat on a park bench :)

that snowman is totally rad

lol

Ha, I tried to leave him on the hood of a stranger's car, but alas his head fell off in transit. Apparently I'm easily amused with a chunk of snow and a twig ;)

I know what you mean, I've been there during my vacation time this summer.
I went to my hometown with the idea of shooting as much as I can, but eventually I was exhausted. On my last days there I was thinking about not going out and just spend more hours at home or doing something less "complicated" than walking in the middle of nowhere scouting for some cool shots. But then I thought "when I get back to my everyday routine I'll miss this", so I went out anyway (not to mention I'm now 700km from there).

Right now I'm processing the shots, and while After Effects renders my videos, I'm on Vimeo and I'm glad I didn't gave up! Everytime I see a timelapse makes me wanna go out and shoot the first thing that cross in from of me. I think I'm obsessed with timelapse haha.

For me, I just dont feel right unless my cameras are in action. I know the 5dii has a 200,000 or so shot life span, but I just cant justify having it and my lenses sleep for more then two day. It just would not make sense as I have invested so much time and work into acquiring them. If I were you I would start time lapsing factory processes in your area during cold times...if it gets cold enough I might point my cameras on some ice. Try some HDR in the fog perhaps? I dunno, for me it just feels weird not to shoot, i know you are feeling the same way.

hope that helps.
Cheers!

Oh,

I do have right now -34,5 cel.

I have been working on a 26 week project its now 34 weeks, a house build that will be auctioned off at the end for charity.
Totally for the love of it and my little contribution towards the marketing. Thats kept me busy, up early before the builders get on site,sneaking out of work to retrieve the gear
getting home and rendering out the shots...who knows what the shutter count is now??? a quick guess is over 50k.
Trust me construction TL'S are not for the faint hearted.....nothing ever goes to plan, weather, builders not turning up, batteries going down, inverters frying (the cheap ones ) i even had an
on site porta potty fall on my permanent camera enclosure during a storm hehe.

Its nearly finished and cant wait to get back to the bush and sunsets and clouds.

Hmm rotting bananas, snowmen and factory processing plants.....snowmen not an option in my neck of the woods, i could make
one out of ice cream and ......nah what a waste of ice cream.

At least the weather is nice down here in oz at the moment

Here's a few more ideas for shots: http://www.timelapseearth.com/p/time-lapse-earth-film-information.html

If you get a shot from the list, share it with me an perhaps you might want to become part of the crew for a feature length time lapse film?

With a full moon tonight I might have to put on warm clothes and make a go of it. I haven't used my new igus slider in a few weeks and I'm really wanting to shoot something!


Heading out to Eastern Oregon this weekend for a little mini vacation. Just up the road where we stay the locals get together and stage a little family xc ski race and then a big bonfire. Here is a shot from last year-



Thought it would be fun to try and stay sober enough to get a timelapse of the events this year.

Sometimes I'm jealous of you guys who have stuff like snow and drifting fog to make cool timelapses of. Just too many days of relentless clear blue skies, warm turquoise oceans and golden sand round here.

But then next week a cyclone might take my roof off. Wouldn't need to speed that up to make an exciting video

Kit

That looks like a nice spot ladukebob - and a damn big bonfire! I'm not sure I could live somewhere that didn't get snow in the winter.. the dramatic changes in seasons is just too cool. But the snow could bugger off by the end of Feb, as far as I'm concerned (and it never does) .. and this is the forecast for tomorrow: Clearing late in the morning. Wind becoming north 40 km/h gusting to 60 near noon then diminishing to 20 in the evening. Temperature falling to minus 24 in the afternoon. Wind chill minus 37. So, Kit, I'm gonna hate on you for a little bit right now, if that's alright ;) (it sounds lovely..) And yup, tornados are scaaaary business.. one of my very first timelapses had a funnel cloud in it and it's too bad it turned out so crappy, but I'm not really pining for another opportunity!

I wonder how Jack Ripper's banana is doing... ;)

We visited Banff (the new one in Canada, not the original in Scotland) a few years back in January. Truly beautiful.
Having been raised in a country where snow usually means slush and soaking wet clothes, I hadn't realised that snow is actually dry!

I could probably name you at least ten different kinds of snow off the top of my head ;) (Hmph, weather forecast revised to -39C tonight.) Banff *is* stunning.. I've been many times. So hey, you can solve a mystery for me: I noticed that Banff is *chock full* of Aussies - why is that? Do you all get the glossy travel brochure in the mail or something?

I was still a pommie back then, hadn't though of emigrating at the time.

The current rush of Aussie visitors could have something to do with the exchange rate. Foreign travel has never been cheaper and Banff is on the right side of the continent for travelers from here not wanting too long a flight. Might also be the novelty factor. Go somewhere COMPLETELY different. New Zealand is nearer but Canada is probably cheaper right now and may form part of a larger tour of the American continent.

We'd love to go back to Banff in the summer but I doubt that will ever happen.

Kit

Sent that then realised:

You CAN go skiing in Australia, the Blue Mountains have snow in winter. Maybe the keen skiers like to escape the blazing summer heat at home by enjoying a Canadian winter. There is Europe, but many of you speak a similar language to Australian

I was there in 1981, Banff is beautiful, that mountain is just jaw dropping at the end of the street....i have slides to prove it heheh !
Cold as heck when i was there. hmmm cheaper than NZ....me might rethink my travel plans....after the Nullabour

Any word on the banana tl.... bet its nice and black by now

Hey, look at that, another Aussie who's been to Banff! Ha, Movingfish, everbody who's been there has the 'de rigueur' photo of the mountain at the end of the street - but it's just so damn pretty!

What I'd really noticed is that a lot of the ski/hotel staff are Aussies (ie living there, not just tourists). But I've travelled enough to know that Canada *is* a cheap destination. Personally, I think Banff is better in the winter. It's really busy/touristy in the summer and I think there's less to do (except maybe hike or pet the mountain goats), especially if you like to ski. Can't swim in any of the lakes anywhere in the Rockies either - waaaay too cold! It doesn't normally get as cold in Banff in the winter as it does here (currently -31C with the windchill factor - brisk!).

Language issues:
I had to look up "pommie" - previously Brit before being sent off to the penal colony
and "Nullabour" - the world's biggest single chunk of limestone.

(That banana must be dust by now...)

Can't swim in any of the lakes anywhere in the Rockies either - waaaay too cold! It doesn't normally get as cold in Banff in the winter as it does here (currently -31C with the windchill factor - brisk!).

Language issues:
I had to look up "pommie" - previously Brit before being sent off to the penal colony
and "Nullabour" - the world's biggest single chunk of limestone.

I would love to go back Canada, i will try and dig out my slides, they have probably turned sepia by now ?, showing my age now I found a frozen pond one day while i was up in the back country, i thought it would be cool to stand on the edge and get a photo....yep straight down to my knees in ice water, bloody tourist I also swapped my Advance australia hoody for a Canadian one in Banff, that was 1981.

-31C.......should reach 33C here tommorrow
LOL Biggest chunk of limestone....i didnt know that, i thought it meant treeless. So im heading across the biggest chunk of treeless limestone in the world

Cant wait to see the banana TL ...or am i just weird

Yup! - so it's this:


versus this:


.. that's about what it looked like in 1981, yes?
ps- Don't feel too bad/old, I was there the same year, coincidentally.. but I didn't give myself hypothermia.


This thread proves we're clearly a bit bored (or maybe it's just me) .. and that clearly, Jack Ripper is a bit shy about his fruit...

One of our enduring memories of Banff is the outdoor swimming pool at the back of the Banff Springs hotel. The water was 40c and the surrounding air -18c. The waiters bring you a glass of chilled white wine wearing mufflers and woolen gloves and you have to drink it before it gets cold

Then, just as you start thinking you're getting too hot in that water, you realise your hair is frozen solid. A wonderful place.

London is much the same. I always recon there are two types of people working in London hotels: those who do NOT speak English as a first language and the Australians. Hotel work is a great way for young people to see the world and pay their way.

Hmm yes was bored yesterday, was going to set up for a shoot but the sky decided to clear to a beautiful blue colour, no clouds
Frozen hair now thats new ! Found my slides, thats me on the right

Maybe the banana is one of those genetically modified ones, so it could be weeks before it gets funky ?

Thanks for the pics Brenda

It's just the most amazing hotel, isn't it?

Hey Fish, are you sure it was 1981? That photo looks more like the summer of '76. And that hair pic is too funny - kinda like what I look like after a blustery January day.. minus the facial hair ;)


Maybe if we do a little dance..