Until now, we have covered all that we need to make our own time-lapse videos. Time-lapse is essentially the art of capturing video frames at a very low frame rate. When these frames are combined and played back at a regular frame rate (say, 25 fps), the viewer gets a sense that time is moving at a higher speed than normal, hence the term lapse. When the frames are captured using high resolution photographic cameras or even HDR images, then the results can be spectacular. Effects such as watching a flower bloom in seconds, or seeing the sun set or rise in a small time frame can become reality.

Lately, time-lapse photography has become one of the most used modern artistic effects in documentaries, or even movies. To achieve the impressive time-lapse videos you see in such cases, complex rigs that move the camera very slowly are combined with devices called Intervalometers (special devices which are programmed to get the camera to shoot several pictures at given intervals), to achieve the required precision.