Miguel Quiles
Miguel Quiles is a New Jersey-based commercial wedding and portrait photographer as well as a speaker and educator.
In this video Sony Artisan Miguel Quiles shows you how to shoot a timelapse without the use of the PlayMemories app on the A7III!
Learn more about shooting timelapse videos and the latest Sony cameras:
- How To Shoot Perfect Panoramas and Timelapses
- Enlaps Tikee 3 PRO Timelapse Camera: Hands-On Review
- 5 Best Tripods for Astrophotography & Time-Lapse
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Miguel Quiles:
In this episode of The Breakdown, I’ll show you guys how I shoot time-lapses, using the new Sony a7III.
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Miguel Quiles:
Welcome back to The Breakdown, my name is Miguel Quiles. I am here in beautiful Red Rock Canyon, and I decided that I wanted to take some time lapses. It’s been a few years (since) my first episode, which you can watch in the description below. I actually was in Las Vegas, and I shot some time lapses on the strip using the a7rII, using the PlayMemories app, which unfortunately is not available in this latest generation of Sony cameras. So what I want to do is, I want to show you how you can shoot time-lapses, using the brand new Sony a7III, without that PlayMemories app. We’re actually going to use an intervalometer, which is what’s used with most DSLR’s, to shoot time- lapses, so let’s go ahead, and let’s take a look how we’re going to set this up.
Let’s talk about our setup here really briefly. So the superstar of this entire time-lapse is going to be this tripod. I’ve got a Benro Go travel 2 tripod. It’s made of carbon fiber. Very lightweight; (I) love to use this tripod because, it’s super easy to travel with it, lightweight, could stuff it into a camera bag, a roller bag, and won’t put me over my weight limits when I’m traveling, so that’s what I’m using to kind of keep this whole thing secure. I’ve got the new Sony a7III that I’m going to be using to shoot all of these time-lapses that you’re going to see here in the sequence in the video, and I’m using the 12-24mm f/4, G Series lens from Sony.
I wanted to get a really wide shot last time I came to Las Vegas, and shot that time lapse tutorial. I didn’t have a lens this wide, so it’s kind of interesting to see what it would look like to do some really ultra wide (and) different shots with this lens, and then I’m using this Velo; it’s a shutter boss 2 intervalometer, and it’s pretty handy. It hooks up to a USB 2.0, and basically this is what’s going to be controlling the camera and telling it when to fire, how long of an interval and basically everything, settings-wise, is going to be done here, so I want to show you guys the settings for the camera, and then I’ll show you the settings for the remote control, and it will start shooting.
Let’s look at the settings on the intervalometer first. What we’re going to do, is we’re going to set this interval time here to 5 seconds, so every 5 seconds, it’s going to take a shot. The remote is going to tell the camera to fire, and we’ll have a photo. The next thing we’re going to do, we’re going to arrow over, the number of frames that we’re taking. You could take up to 399 shots, and so that’s what I’m going to do. I’m actually going to go ahead and set this thing to 399, let it take a bunch of photos. I may not actually end up using all of these frames, because I think that’s about a 16 or so second clip, and I like to keep them a little bit shorter. But I’d rather have a few more frames, just in case the clouds get a little bit more interesting towards the end of the sequence of shots. So we have 399 shots, and I do keep the beep on because I like to walk around and not have to be kind of stuck to this camera, and I want to hear the camera actually firing, and so this beep is pretty loud. I could be you know off just enjoying myself, and and I’m able to still monitor and hear this thing going off, so those are the settings on the intervalometer.
On the actual camera, my settings are going to be… we’re shooting this at an aperture of f/8, shutter speed of 1-320th of a second and ISO 100. Now for your particular shooting scenario, the settings could be totally different. I dialed these settings in, by, first let’s say the aperture, because you probably want to know, “Why did you choose f/8?” I really wanted to get a lot more of this scene in focus, so I want to shoot at a higher f-stop so that I can get some of the foreground and of course the background in focus. As far as the shutter speed, I basically look into the viewfinder and I want to make sure that I’m not losing or clipping any of the highlights. So at 320th of a second, I’m able to do that, and I’m just evaluating that through the electronic viewfinder. ISO of 100 is because I want to keep the best possible quality for these images.
If I shoot some at night, I would likely end up either dragging the shutter like I did in the first time lapse tutorial, or I would raise my ISO, which I prefer not to do, because I want to keep these images as clean, and just as crisp as possible. So those are the settings. We’re going to go ahead and take some shots here, then we’re going to drive around Red Rock Canyon, and we’re just going to shoot wherever, wherever we can find some cool locations with this wide-angle lens. And we’ll put it together in a sequence, and I’ll just show it to you right now.
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All right everybody, so that is how you shoot time lapses using the a7III. This process would be the same if you’re using something like the A7RIII as well, since it doesn’t have the PlayMemories app. The remote control is fairly inexpensive, and it’s pretty easy to find. We’ll put the links for everything in the comment section below, or in the description below rather. But in the comment section, what I want to know is what questions do you guys have about shooting time-lapses? About the camera?
The lens choice? Settings? Choices? I don’t know, whatever questions it is you have, leave them in the comment section below and I’ll make sure that I scour the comments to find out, and see what you need to know
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