Many of you might be already knowing what is time-lapse photography and video. For those who don't know, you may have experienced/seen it many times on television or any other digital media. Time-lapse photography is a photography technique whereby the frequency at which frames are captured is much lower than that used to view the sequence, so when played at normal speed, time appears to move faster. It is considered the opposite of high speed/slow motion photography. Some classic subjects of time-lapse photography include evolution of a construction project, people in the city, and plants growing and flowers opening.
From the definition, it is clear that time lapse photography is a two-step process:
Taking time-lapse pictures
Merging images into a video
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