Lately, I’ve been working on a new kind of photography project. This project, in it’s initial stages was as unassuming as a small bud.
However, as time passed, the project swelled into a bigger than life blossom from which one’s attention cannot be pulled from.
Hours were spent hovering over plant, camera, and anyone who dared to enter the room where Mother Orchid was birthing her young. I worried about batteries dying, if the intervals I had set where often enough, whether I had the correct aperture settings, and if the flash would kick in when needed.
In the end, I think it was all worth the effort — even if I had to do it two times to get it right.
See for yourself and let me know if you like how it turned out.
That is so cool! I love time lapse photography and now you have one all your own. I have an orchid that is about to bloom – wonder if I could pull that off? I have no idea how.
My camera had an interval-timer setting that made it all possible. Take it from me, it is best if you set the whole thing up someplace where you don’t have to worry about the flash waking you up in the night OR where you turning the light on in the room doesn’t affect the lighting on the photo. I learned that in round 1. Yet, I still kept her in my room because the window makes the shot and the other rooms don’t have a table high enough to bring the orchid up to the window. But I moved the orchid so that the flash would project the other direction instead of into my face as I tried to sleep. Good luck.
What interval did you use?
This video is every hour initially but every 30 minutes as the sun was rising. I was totally afraid that my battery was going to die but couldn’t do anything about it as the battery compartment was covered by the tripod (while tilted up).
I loved it!
nice work Juls. I remember seeing an article about somebody making big bucks doing that kind of stuff.