Need app: Picture-A-Day on iPhone made into a video?
January 13, 2016 7:50 PM   Subscribe

I'm looking for an app, or some other method, to take a daily picture of the same area of our yard on my iPhone to eventually turn into a video. The goal is to look at a video of how the yard changes on a daily basis over an extended period of time.

Important, I think, is to have a way to center each image on the same location to avoid jitter in the playback. Any suggestions? Thanks!
posted by Rad_Boy to Technology (7 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
The Everyday app?
posted by kathryn at 8:12 PM on January 13, 2016 [2 favorites]


lapseit is good, but you'd need to fix the phone in place which isn't very practical
posted by Sebmojo at 8:51 PM on January 13, 2016


I do a lot of timelapse work (warning: self link*), but nothing where the camera isn't always steady. I assume an app that does GIF or GYF would work for stitching the images together to animate them.

"Important, I think, is to have a way to center each image on the same location to avoid jitter in the playback."

If you are using the default iPhone app the grid is a bit wide, but should help. If there is a bit of jitter, consider editing the photos in another app which has guidelines and editing the photos to match up. Or use a camera app with smaller guides.

* That camera is new and about to be moved outside this weekend, so not my best work ... yet ;)
posted by terrapin at 5:12 AM on January 14, 2016


I used something called MyTimelapser that showed you a ghost of the previous photo so that you can line it up with the new photo. Just make sure you have a few fixed points/lines that you can line it up with every day and I think it would work well for you.
posted by mskyle at 5:41 AM on January 14, 2016


Can you rig up something to help align the phone each day? A whole tripod might be overkill, but even lines on the window glass could help make this more successful.

(I want to do this too now!)
posted by wenestvedt at 8:11 AM on January 14, 2016


Mount an L bracket on a windowframe, porch rail, or whatever else you have that's sturdy and faces the yard. Use that to position your camera for the daily picture. This is being used across California (and elsewhere) for citizen science projects looking to track ecosystem rebound after fires. This link and this Instructable will guide you on the set-up.
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 8:46 AM on January 14, 2016


Best answer: Dayli. It will overlay the last photo with the current view so you know everything is lined up. Or you can set guidelines up.
posted by Cog at 12:38 PM on January 14, 2016


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