Timelapse in Saudi Arabia!

Travelling around Saudi Arabia isn’t always the easiest. Even though the country has opened up to foreign visitors, it’s not quite geared up for commercial tourism and is still very much ingrained with its own cultural and religious way of life.

However, there are many amazing places to visit in this conservative and often mis-understood country. One place I’ve been wanted to visit for quite a while is the mountainous region of Al Baha in the western part of the country, close to the main city of Jeddah.

Learn more about Canon RF Lenses Here

In this two part video I’ll show you the technique I used to capture the scene and how I managed to save this time-lapse from potential failure.

Part 2 explains in detail how i managed to edit the time-lapse using Adobe After Effects which can be viewed here

The region is home to the Thee Ayn heritage village, also known as the Marble Village, which was originally built over 400 years ago. As recently as 40 years ago people were still actually living there. My journey started with an evening flight from Dammam airport to Jeddah.

An overnight stay in Jeddah then an early morning domestic departure to King Saud bin Abdulaziz in the region of Al Baha. The timelapse technique that I used probably wasn’t explained that well earlier in the video. It is essentially a pre – programmed custom shooting mode using Program AE on the Canon R5, that allows the camera to record a timelapse using a constrained set of parameters reducing the need to manually adjust the cameras exposure settings, while a time lapse is being recorded.

It a kind of auto timelapse set up that I normally use to create my sequences. This will also work just as well using the other Canon R series cameras.

I have made several other videos that helps to explain how to configure the Canon R cameras using the Auto Timelapse method using Program AE set up as a Custom Shooting Mode. More information on how to set up this Custom Shooting Mode using Program (AE) can be found here