This photo was taken at 3:46 this morning. It was exactly 36 minutes after I had gotten out of bed. I woke up this morning with a goal: time lapse sunrise.
Although this was the goal, I realized something about myself today. I cannot do math ridiculously early in the morning. For example: should I put it on a 10 second or 30 second time lapse. Well here is the math behind the decision. There are 30 frames per second of tape. If I put it at 10 second time lapse then it will take one frame of video every 10 seconds. Follow? So how long will it take to get one second of tape? Well 10seconds x 30frames = 300 seconds. 300 seconds divided by 60 seconds equals 5. So what does this all mean? It will take 5 minutes of footage to get 1 second of tape in time lapse. Now this seems simple right? Okay, now wake up early. You're groggy, you're trying to figure out where is the best camera location, you're trying to do math. Ugh.
Turns out the footage isn't so bad. I would like to try it again with a 30 seconds lapse to see the difference and then have some more choice in what I will be using.
So there I sat in my pickup, watching the sunrise over the St-Lawrence and wrapped up in a sleeping bag. Eventually I fell asleep only to arise with the sun beaming in my face and the clock reading 5:15. I collected up my equipment and headed back home. Went back to bed at 5:30 and woke up at 9:30 fresh and ready for work!
I feel like if I don't use this clip it will be one of those ones that only you realize how much work goes into filming only to come up with nothing.
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