I’m no boater, but a boat should not be stored in the water during the winter, right? This was the case when I found myself in a small boat harbor by the river Kokemäenjoki. The river was frozen and the scene was quite picturesque. I thought this was a perfect place to test my new motorized timelapse slider and planned to revisit the next day. In the evening I checked the weather report. They actually predicted the next day would be one of the coldest of that december so far.
My intention was to shoot night to day timelapse with Holy Grail technique ( https://vimeo.com/57265142 ), so I needed to be in the location very early. I had a good plan, but implementation was not up to par. Basically I was late and adjusting the timelapse gear took longer than I expected, although there was a good reason for that; Temperature was near -20 °C . Even little things tend to be hard to do when your fingers are turning blue.
Although it was freezing, the motorized slider and all the other equipment worked quite nicely. Even the battery for the TB3 and the slider’s stepper motor lasted just fine. I did have some difficulties with the knobs of tripod and slider etc. but that was to be expected because the cold.
The camera operator didn’t perform so well. I made a rookie mistake, which is described in the video. Also, I’m not pleased with how I used the TB3 three-axis motion control device. There’s so much more it can do.
Gear List
Timelapse:
- EOS 5D Mark III (+Magic Lantern)
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
- eMotimo TB3 + Rhino Pro 4FT
- Anker 2nd Gen Astro Pro2 20000mAh battery
- Triopo MT-2205+KJ-1S
Video:
- EOS 5D Mark III
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
- VisionTech -picture style
Post
- Timelapse edited with LRTimelapse and Adobe Lightroom
- Video edited with Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects
- ”Earth Zoom” is made with Earth Zoom Pro Kit ( http://goo.gl/j7TmxV )
- Holy Grain ULTIMATEGRAIN BUNDLE ( http://holygrain.com/ )
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