
See Gorillapod at Amazon (opens in new tab). I like the iTrek mount for its simple design and ease of use. The Gorillapod has flexible legs that can wrap around poles and banisters and whatever else, bending accommodate various angles. There are a ton of tripod options available, though I have personally found a Gorillapod and iTrek camera mount works the best. Time-lapse footage requires an extensive amount of time to capture and a tripod ensures consistency in your framing. While a fun form of photography, there are a few things you need to keep in mind while tackling time-lapse video.įor starters, invest in a tripod. Image quality was good and while I did experience a few app crashes with each, it never rose to the level to render the app useless. Time-lapse photography can be a very rewarding style of photography and all three apps in this roundup performed admirably. While it would be nice if Microsoft would add this feature natively to our Windows Mobile camera (HINT HINT), three such apps stood out from the pack and offers a fantastic stand-alone options for capturing time-lapse footage. We looked at several time-lapse offerings in the Windows Store, evaluating them on the ease of use, stability and quality of the footage. Rush-hour traffic can last for hours, but through time-lapse photography the scene can be shortened to a few seconds. The process generally requires you to take a series of single exposures for a duration of time and then combining them to simulate continuous action at a higher speed.
From sunsets to blooming flowers to storms rolling in off the horizon, time-lapse photography is perfect for just about anything that takes time to complete. While time-lapse photography may not be something you use every day, it is a great way to capture slow moving subjects and view them at higher speeds.