A Tilt Shift Timelapse Wedding

I’ve had my tilt shift lens for a few months now and regular visitors to the site will know all too well how much I’m in love with it. If I could get away with using it all the time I would! But, it’s just ideal for most things. I guess I’m still quite attracted to it’s novelty factor and long may it last I say!

Something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now is make a time lapse video using it. It’s something that I’ve seen done quite a lot so I can’t claim the idea as my own. However, I’ve yet to come across one shot at a wedding. So, last weekened at Brooklodge I had the perfect opportunity to create one. We had the group shots over with nice and quick and after getting plenty of my usual candid shots I was left with a lot of time on my hands. Brooklodge Hotel has lots of areas to shoot from a height, something that lends itself quite well to tilt shift photography.

I started by taking some of guests mingling in the main reception entrance where they’re greeted with drinks and canepes. I then went outside where most of the guests were enjoying the glorious weather – I spent around 30 minutes in two locations. Once I was finished there I went into the main reception room and set the camera up in the balcony to get guests coming in to take their seats for their meal and finally the last part of the video shows the room being cleared up and prepared for that evenings dancing.

I’d love to have left it running at two points in particular – for Sarah and Kevin’s entrance (the bride and groom) and for the first few dances but I needed my camera to shoot those moments from ground level. Maybe another time.

All in all there was around 5700 individual photographs taken, usually at 1 second intervals.

So, without too much more waffle – here it is. Enjoy.