Time lapse coral and clown fish – P365 Jul31

For this time lapse, I learned my lesson from last time, and chose a more interesting subject. Here we have a short time lapse of our two little clown fish frolicking in the head of a xenia coral. This was one frame every five seconds this time, and it really makes them look like they’re zipping all over the place!

Some lessons learned this time:

• Don’t do time lapse in vertical orientation. Video sites will shrink the video to fit a horizontal orientation, making the video look small and ugly.
• While the clown fish are cute, they move around too fast to be good time lapse subjects.
• When shooting by AC light, don’t set the shutter speed to be too fast. The power cycle of AC makes lights fade in and out many times a second. Too fast for the eye to see, but slow enough that a camera on 1/200th sec may not expose enough light, resulting in flickering in the final time lapse.

I hope you like this one!