Hoho those spider shots are awesome. Do you do any noise reduction? I noticed on full res there was a decent amount of noise in the background still.
Nope, nothing. Only the last night sky image has had some manipulation (HDR stiched together from several shots), the rest are either directly from cam and/or have been cropped and resized.
The noise was quite likely pretty bad as they were taken outside after sunset with nearly no natural light, without tripod and shooting at rather weird angle so I couldn't really see what was focused and what not.
How do you do the time lapse roughly? Do you hook the camera to a laptop, or just have it do it by itself?
1) install
magic lantern
2) turn off image stabilization, autofocus and turn on mirror lock
3) find something interesting
4) set exposure, ISO and aperture from camera menu/buttons
4) set up shooting interval from the magic lantern menu
5) take a first photo, magic lantern will take over and shoot at the given interval
6) sit back and let the camera do it's work. I prefer to read Kindle or watch movies from cellphone during that
You can also set the magic lantern to take HDR shots but you'll have to combine them later on in your PC. It generates shell scripts and expects some software to be on path but I guess you can get it running on Windows as well.
You could probably also use it through laptop or with some expensive timelapse HW addon but for me the free software solution works perfectly and is the easiest. I might modify my cellphone into a remote trigger though if I finally get some time to do it
What is the difference in time between shots? 1 min? 10 min etc?
Depends on video. Most daylight ones have frame every 3-5s, darker ones often 15-30s per frame. Most videos use 25FPS but some are also at 15FPS. I should probably add that information to future videos I upload.
I don't have anything to show in this post but if I get lucky I might have a HDR timelapse to show "soon". I'm a bit afraid though that I might have used a bit too short exposures for it so it might also be rather crappy.