'Life' on BBC1 tonight

[pressld2]

Well you could knock me down with a feather!

I've only just watched this week's episodes on plants and was shocked to see what camera they used for the time-lapse tracking shot through the woodland. I just assumed that it was all shot on high end HD video cameras these days, never dreamed it would be a Nikon D200 stills camera. But I suppose there's no reason why not. At 10.2 megapixels it's way above a 1080 TV picture resolution. It just really surprised me.

TV pictures are shown at 24 frames per second so for a sixty second sequence its 1440 frames plus another 1440 shot in the studio against the blue screen. That's a lot of work in photoshop!

Dave P.

[Meta menardi]

I did some time lapse stuff as a request using fast growth rape plants, a timed photo on my digital camera every 10 min for over 6 days, downloaded straight to hard disk, then all stitched into a video. They didn't use it because they wanted a black background, I had a little light leaking onto it.

It did do quite a smooth job, but I think I have lost it now. Done over 10 years ago.

[Dutchess]

Originally Posted by Meta menardi

I did some time lapse stuff as a request using fast growth rape plants, a timed photo on my digital camera every 10 min for over 6 days, downloaded straight to hard disk, then all stitched into a video. They didn't use it because they wanted a black background, I had a little light leaking onto it.

It did do quite a smooth job, but I think I have lost it now. Done over 10 years ago.

Lost it????

The last ten minutes or so of Life this week was very interesting, it had been niggling at me throughout the programme as to how they did the seamless time-lapse shots without the sky and clouds changing much, with no night and day, and not even circulating shadows! The patience of these chaps....

However, what a dream job they have landed!

D.

[Meta menardi]

Originally Posted by Dutchess

Lost it????

The last ten minutes or so of Life this week was very interesting, it had been niggling at me throughout the programme as to how they did the seamless time-lapse shots without the sky and clouds changing much, with no night and day, and not even circulating shadows! The patience of these chaps....

However, what a dream job they have landed!

D.

Yes, lost it as it was no real use to me, so it was on a CD with loads of other CDs, got left behind when I left work.

I presume the constant background stuff is done with some green screen jiggery pokery.

[Hedera]

This week's session was most interesting, especially the technical bit about the time-lapse photography. I would have loved a job like that! Just watched it again.

[PMG]

The series was as expected - just marvellous - and I believe the DVD's are finding their way into Santas' sack for me Then on a cold afternoon I can sit down and overdose on it, brew up and go to the loo without missing a second of it ............. Yea!!!!!

[thebeard]

I have to agree on the comments about the 'creatures of the deep' episode, was the only one i missed so i watched it today after a couple of weeks hard at work, it was amazing, the colours and the variety of life down there was great, nice to see the invertebrates getting some proper airtime too! I think that one and the plants one were the shining lights of the series, the birds one was very good too!