First experiment with time lapse

When you are traveling around it's pretty easy to find something nice to take pictures of. Maybe not nice, but at least interesting. Ok, maybe not even interesting, but simply different.
When you're just going to the office every day of the week, and your job doesn't include taking pictures, it's not always very easy to come up with some subjects, photo ideas or simply just the time to take pictures. Yes, I know, you can always decide to start with a kind of photo-project like the 1-shot-a-day and snap pictures of whatever just to keep up with a self-decided assignment.

I must say that I have few photo-project ideas in my mind, but most of them are requiring few hours if not days to be done, so nothing for a Tuesday evening.
That's why yesterday I came up with another idea: I wanted to try time-lapse photography. You can find thousands of time-lapse professional videos on YouTube or Vimeo, and they're simply astonishing!
now, it was really my first attempt at using this technique, and you can spot very basic and stupid mistakes from the set-up, passing to the pictures post-processing and down to the final video encoding.... so it's deeply and completely a first try, but in a way or another I like the way that those 293 pictures (yes, 293!) create a short video flow.

The whole thing took a couple of hours: I set up my D3200 on the tripod out on the balcony, and from inside (it was pretty windy and chilly), I was triggering the shutter via an infra-red remote controller. Afterwords I adjusted a bit the RAW images and combined them in iMovie. So pretty straight forward, absolutely not rocket science but, as you can see, neither the result is rocketing!