Hyperlapse with bracketing?

[Citizen Flier]

I mostly shoot bracketed stills. But it would be useful to capture automated bracketed stills with hyperlapse in certain situations. I often can't arrange a human model for remote locations. Some locations are best with a distant figure for scale: walking, biking, rock climbing etc. So If I could enable hyperlapse to capture timed stills -with bracketing- I could use self as a model, and be more likely to have correct exposure, and option for HDR composites. It really doesn't look good to have a solitary figure staring at a smart controller. Much better to show some believable action. But I don't think hyperlapse can be configured WITH bracketed exposures. Has anyone attempted/achieved this? Thanks.

 

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

It would be nice if the Hyperlapse sequence stopped for each shot (like all good land-based photographer's sliders do, stop-shoot-start), but I'm pretty sure the AC keeps flying (doesn't stop for shots) and relies on the gimble for a decent still during flight.

So for it to also bracket while moving is perhaps asking too much. However, as you suspect, it's not programmed to do that as far as I can tell, so we don't have any testimonials on how well it would work if it did.

Chris

 

[Dobmatt]

I mostly shoot bracketed stills. But it would be useful to capture automated bracketed stills with hyperlapse in certain situations. I often can't arrange a human model for remote locations. Some locations are best with a distant figure for scale: walking, biking, rock climbing etc. So If I could enable hyperlapse to capture timed stills -with bracketing- I could use self as a model, and be more likely to have correct exposure, and option for HDR composites. It really doesn't look good to have a solitary figure staring at a smart controller. Much better to show some believable action. But I don't think hyperlapse can be configured WITH bracketed exposures. Has anyone attempted/achieved this? Thanks.

Drone hyper lapse is a concept crazy enough to deliver barely palatable results at the slowest aircraft speed and smallest interval possible. Litchi app will allow to record a single DNG image every 1 sec, having barely enough time to save it before next shot. With bracketing (assuming such option available for automated hyper-lapse) every image will be shot at different position, making the sequence impossible to render into smooth video.

That said, for your project I would suggest to experiment with a simple Litchi waypoint mission and a POI targeted at the model. DNG files are providing more than enough space to deal with EV and dynamics in post. With a sequence if TIFF images imported into the timeline there's much wider field to experiment without the need for bracketing ...