Jeff, glad you liked it and I hope it helps the Blog. What a great place to travel!

Tim, Thanks and Yes. I was travelling with my small Sony HDR-HC3 camera and a very small, lightweight tripod.

BFe,

It's really a pretty incredible camera. Sometimes when I'm lugging the big camera around I wonder if its really worth it (some time it is, some time its not). Here are a few thoughts:

#1 Use a tripod and keep it simple. Take your hands off the tripod and camera during the take.
#2 Avoid pans and zooms whenever possible and instead set up separate shots at different focal lengths and splice together if you need create context for the piece.
#3 Lock the camera in manual focus to avoid the "pumping" of focus that auto focus often gives. Nailing focus really matters.
#4 Consider a polarizing filter for outdoor, highly reflective subjects, or the sky. It will make your sky bluer and allow you to adjust how much reflection you see.
#5 Set the white balance for the situation you are in. It only needs to be close, presets are usually good, AWB isn't always good enough. Get familiar with color correction, saturation, and color curves in your editing software.
#6 Avoid always centering the subject.
#7 Don't "average" the focus. Nail the focus on your primary subject and let the others fall out of focus. "Splitting the difference" as your auto focus will typically do, is a poor compromise.
#8 If you have a sturdy tripod, try using the spot focus function to perform a "rack focus" from one object to another. Use sparingly or it looks cheesy. You can also try using the focus wheel, but be prepared to take each shot several times to get it right. The focus wheel isn't precise enough to get it right in one shot.
#9 Keep your lens clean.
#10 Learn to use zebra settings and manual exposure to get better exposure. If you have to err one way or the other, slightly under exposing is better than slightly over exposing.
#11 Take lots of footage and choose the best! Some of my favorite clips in the piece are the ones I almost didn't take.

Thanks KL. You are lucky to live in such a beautiful place. We had a really nice hike for several hours through Shelborne Farms. I'd love to come back again earlier and catch the leave from start to finish. I came when the higher altitudes were getting bare, but the lower altitudes were in peak.

Thanks Lucasberg. What intervalometer do you use (it has one built in, just limited to minute increments)?

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It's called the gentled auto. It will let you get down to to about 3 second intervals.
Here are some timelapse with it
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So for the sky and pool, what camera and what intervals did you use? I also understand you have to be careful of shutter speeds to make sure you have some "smear" of the images so it's not so jumpy.

I looked at the site, and it looks interesting. A little confusing with all the options.