Time-Lapse Photography Art and Techniques by Mark Higgins

Capturing a HDR time-lapse
This is an exciting hybrid of two areas, and there are a lot of HDR time-lapse videos out there. It can
be very laborious to achieve because for each frame of the time-lapse video you will need to capture
multiple frames using auto exposure bracketing and merge them into an HDR image. It is becoming
easier to do this now, however, as cameras are starting to come with in-camera HDR options. With
this option you could capture HDR images using the interval timer, then put the individual frames that
have been made into HDR images in camera into a time-lapse video on a computer.
Fireworks provide the perfect subject for time-lapse photography because there is plenty of colour
and movement. Set up your camera on a tripod and make sure that you use slow shutter speeds to
capture blur in the moving lights. Camera settings: 3" (three seconds), ƒ/14, ISO 400.