At the start I would mark where the legs of the tripod stand. Center
something small....like the stem. Zoom in or out all the way unless there is
some way to know exactly where you are. You will want the same amount of
exposure....to make up for the changes of light. I think I would try to
white balance and meter off a grey card for each shot. After the first one I
might consider setting up a white backdrop for all others so I could erase
it.
The actual assembly will involve putting each shot on a layer and moving it
a bit to overlap...might need to scale and rotate if you weren't very
careful in the shooting. After all the layers are assembled you can trim
them. You might want to consider a morph program to ease between each pair
of shots to prevent jerkiness. Now....how to make a movie from it....I
haven't the foggiest!
"Andy100" <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote in message
news:cjn9k4$9u8$1_at_newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I am interested in making a sort of 'time lapse' series of pictures. I was
> planning on taking a photo of our garden at roughly the same time every
day,
> then put them together to flick through to see how it changes over the
> autumn. Well, a bit ambitious, i know !, but the problem i have is the
fact
> that i won't know the exact line up of the last shot, so i cannot be sure
of
> taking the photos in EXACTLY the same frame. So i am going to need
software
> to view these pictures in an 'overlay' type of view (pictures one on top
of
> the other), so that i can line them all up perfectly then crop to a common
> area in all pictures.
>
> Yep, a bit hard to explain in words what i mean. Hopefully, someone out
> there will know a way.
>
> P.S. I have PSP8, but i'm pretty sure i cannot do it in there, or it's too
> difficult. Is there such software out there which will do what i need
> (preferably freeware) ?
>
> Cheers
> Andy
>
>
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