Here's a really cool time-lapse series I created last night of a Monarch Caterpillar forming a Chrysalis. The caterpillar will attach itself to a branch and the process to form the Chrysalis takes about 12 hours. You have to keep watching the caterpillar to see it start turning darker and start the time-lapse going. You don't have long to catch the whole process. It took me two tries to get one like this. I'll post the time-lapse when it comes out of the Chrysalis to form the butterfly.
Click here to watch the video of the time-lapse photos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuGiqJRA0G8
The photos were taken on 10-second intervals keeping the camera powered up all the time. The setup was a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera controlled via the ACC port (setup below). The whole process took about 2-hours total, but I did remove some of the beginning frames so the video posted wasn't too long. The frames are played back at 0.125 seconds in a WMV movie format created using Movie Maker, which comes free with XP. I had to create the movie in chunks since Movie Maker couldn't handle processing all of the JPEG still photos at one time.
Click here to watch the video of the time-lapse photos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuGiqJRA0G8
The photos were taken on 10-second intervals keeping the camera powered up all the time. The setup was a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera controlled via the ACC port (setup below). The whole process took about 2-hours total, but I did remove some of the beginning frames so the video posted wasn't too long. The frames are played back at 0.125 seconds in a WMV movie format created using Movie Maker, which comes free with XP. I had to create the movie in chunks since Movie Maker couldn't handle processing all of the JPEG still photos at one time.
