From the course: Time-Lapse Video: High-Dynamic Range (HDR)

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Staging the camera

Staging the camera

From the course: Time-Lapse Video: High-Dynamic Range (HDR)

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Staging the camera

I'm excited to get his first shot set up. We've arrived in Zion National Park, great backdrop here, really cool things to see. And what I want to do is properly capture the shot. Now, for this particular scene, we're dealing with the light being partially hidden. So, I think I'm going to go a little bit low angle. The light should be coming off the side of that. And as the sun moves through, we're going to get a little bit of movement on the side of the rock. And I'm actually going to shoot a vertical time-lapse shot here. Plus, it's going to be HDR. Now, to start, I've got a really solid platform. And what I've done is I've actually shifted the camera a little bit further off. This particular unit here is pretty straightforward. A lot of times, people doing macro-shooting will use these. But, I basically just offset the camera a little bit to get it lower to the ground. I could, of course, do that by lowering the tripod or using a smaller tripod. But with this set of sticks, this is…

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