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A Complete Walkthrough to Setting Up Your Construction Time Lapse

Learn how to capture a construction project's progress using time lapse photography in our ultimate guide. From planning to sharing, we've got you covered.

May 03, 2023
5 min read

Pros & Cons of Incorporating a PTZ Camera on Your Time Lapse Project

PTZ cameras add movement and visual interest to construction time lapse projects. Consider pros and cons before choosing them over 4k still cameras.

March 22, 2023
4 min read

Remotely Track Home Construction or Renovation Projects

Learn how to capture the progress of a residential home build or renovation with a construction time lapse camera.

October 13, 2022
3 min read

Customer Footage: Thai Residential Construction Time Lapse

Tanapol Euaungkanakul is an IT professional from Bangkok, Thailand. He was set to begin the construction of his home and wanted to have a high quality time lapse video of the process from start to finish. He hoped to have a fixed camera position, a system that was maintenance free, and not have to rely on the grid for power.

June 08, 2020
2 min read

Customer Footage: Studying Oyster Farm and Aquatic Wildlife Interaction with Blink

A collaborative research project in Long Island Sound uses Blink to document and study the interactions between oyster farms and aquatic wildlife. Learning what fish and mobile invertebrates (crabs, shrimp, snails, etc.) use the farm gear as habitat provides a better understanding of the benefits an oyster farm provides to the environment.

April 08, 2020
2 min read

Customer Footage: Walsh Community Development Time Lapse

Matthew C. Grammer recently shared a video he created for his client, Republic Property Group, a Texas based real estate developer which manages a few communities in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The company was working on Walsh, a budding development west of Fort Worth. Grammer was tasked with producing videos to showcase the initial stages of the community. As part of this, he captured the construction of two buildings: a marketplace and an activity center.

March 30, 2020
4 min read

5 Considerations of Winter Time Lapse Photography

Our customers tend to run long term time lapse projects with average durations of 6-12 months (or longer!). If you’re one of these people, you’ll likely experience the joys of dealing with the cold weather that accompanies winter months… and all of the challenges that come along with it. Here are the five things to consider when capturing time lapse footage during the cold winter months.

December 16, 2019
5 min read

Time Lapse Videos Show Wildfire Progress of Decker and Saddleridge Fires

Time lapse is an incredible way to visually display progress. I think we can all agree on that. And progress is good, right? Not always. In the midst of another very active fire season, fires have been progressing rapidly due to high winds, an abundance of fuel (dead branches and leaves), and non-existent precipitation. And time lapse videos of some of the fires are popping up all over the web showing this progress.

October 16, 2019
2 min read

How to Capture a Beautiful Time Lapse of the Northern Lights with UpBlink

Tips on How to Capture Nature's Northern Lights Time Lapse with Blink

I had the pleasure of traveling to the Yukon in search of Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) awhile ago. Photos of this phenomenon are always pretty spectacular and I wondered if I could capture something similar but in time lapse format using my GoPro. As a backup I also packed my trusty Panasonic Lumix, a nice compact camera with all the requisite manual controls.

I had been wanting to put the latest CamDo UpBlink Time Lapse Controller (which was released earlier this year) through its paces in a more challenging environment and this was the perfect opportunity. We had recently iterated our successful outdoor solar enclosures so I also took one of these along to see what interesting time lapses we might be able to capture.

August 28, 2019
2 min read

Macro Time Lapse: University Student Features the Color Changing Process of Leaves

Southern Illinois University student captures 6,000 images of leaves changing colors to create a beautiful macro time lapse featuring this natural process. In Illinois, the leaves of deciduous trees undergo a dramatic color change before fading to brown and dying. The process can take weeks, but Owen Reiser, a mathematics and biology student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, wanted to see the leaves change in a matter of seconds. “I was taking a field biology class and we were learning about deciduous trees,” he says. “I’ve been getting into wildlife photography and time lapse for a while, and I couldn’t find a time lapse of leaves changing color, so I just went for it.”

August 23, 2019
2 min read

Metropolis Visual Makes The Most Out of School Renovation Footage With Construction Progress Videos

Last week, we featured the transformation of the derelict Carmelite Convent into the Chichester Free School. The team at Metropolis Visual did so many things right on this project. Not only did they create a stunning video highlighting the project, but they also created progress videos to allow the public to follow along with the progress.

June 12, 2019
2 min read

Customer Footage: Extreme Cold Winter Time Lapse in Pisgah National Forest

We love seeing customers successfully using our products for winter time lapse in the extreme cold. Nichaolas Holshouser recently sent us this beautiful time lapse. He captured it in Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina at 6,000 feet in elevation along the Blue Ridge Parkway. It covers January 20-21, during the eclipse. Temperatures dipped into the single digits (5F/ -15C as the low). The time lapse kit had already been in the field for two weeks prior to this.

February 06, 2019
2 min read

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