time-lapse photography

noun

1. the photographing on motion-picture film of a slow and continuous process, as the growth of a plant, at regular intervals, especially by exposing a single frame at a time, for projection at a higher speed.

time-lapse photography

noun

1. the technique of recording a very slow process, such as the withering of a flower, by taking a large number of photographs on a strip of film at regular intervals. The film is then projected at normal speed

Example Sentences

In many respects, it was a weird game that — thanks to all the running — glided by with the speed of time-lapse photography.

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Times photo editor Kelvin Kuo and I were there to document the spectacle, powering up GoPro cameras and setting our plan to record the transformation with time-lapse photography.

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The best way to see them, should they appear, will be using time-lapse photography or long-exposure photos.

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The many aerial shots of encampments inadvertently call attention to the distant perspective of the filmmakers, Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk, whose overuse of time-lapse photography and unfortunate deployment of Coldplay’s “Midnight” suggest it’s easier to lyricize poverty than explore it.

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It’s overdue and it’s glorious, “like a flower blooming in time-lapse photography,” as Adam Gopnik writes.

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