Two Years of Fungi Time Lapses - Behind The Scenes & Tutorial - Inspired by Fantastic Fungi

Huge thank you to Pro424 for letting me use the track "At First Light" - Link to the track: open.spotify.com/track/2ctAEv...
This is by far my longest and most ambitious video to date! If I would compile all the hours spent on making these time lapses and count in all the failed attempts, planning, editing, recording, it would be a lot of hours. Sometimes the cameras were rolling for weeks on end. However, it feels amazing to finally show these clips in HD. It's this format the clips were ment for.
Two years ago, me and a friend (Petter - who has appeared on this channel plenty of times), started an instagram account called Stockholm Fungi: / stockholm.fungi
A few months later the amazing documentary Fantastic Fungi was released which inspired us to film time lapse videos of growing mushrooms. As I talk about in the video, there are some things you need in order to make similar time lapse videos yourself:
Camera
Tripod
Power source
Spray bottle
Light source
A box
The first prototype of the box was a black storage box that I added LED-lights to. Cut a hole for the tripod and then I placed the box over wild mushrooms outdoors. This allowed insects and snails to get inside the box and "contribute" to the film. This is one of the major differences between this film and Fantastic Fungi. The latter is obviously a lot better and shot inside a studio, while my film is filmed inside a small box... Anyway, the latest prototype is a lot bigger (4X) and has a lid. I've been using a relatively cheap camera (Canon 80D), and cheap equipment (the special battery only costs €25). So I hope this inspires others to try filming fungi time lapses themselves.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:37 - Two Years of Fungi Time Lapses
06:53 - Settings and Intervals
08:11 - What you need?
11:46 - Different challenges
17:17 - Outro
#timelapse #fantasticfungi #mushrooms

[@TravelOns]

Thanks for watching! :) If you want me to make more behind the scenes videos of the process, let me know and I might make more content in the future.

[@timotheemendez3728]

Hey man! Thanks for the video! I've always been interested in trying this and hope to do this in the near future. Definitely would enjoy more content. Curious to see how you actually do this out in the field. I just can't imagine the extension cords, rain, and all the factors. I presume you live in or near a forest? Also curious about how many types of mushrooms continue growing after being transplanted into the studio, particularly the EM species.
Anyhow, great content! Thanks

[@TravelOns]

Thank you! Glad you liked it :)
If you are to do this in the forest you'd need a big battery. I haven't tried that yet. I simply have the box in my garden with power cables coming from the house. The box is waterproof, so even if it rains a lot, the water won't get inside the box. I live close to the forest, so that helps with finding the fungi and moving them to the box. However, some mushrooms (and slimemould) were filmed without moving them, just put the box over them.
Some mushrooms really don't like being moved, so I have failed several time lapses because of this fact. Some will grow, but grow a lot slower, and some aren't affected at all and just continues to grow.
I recommend starting with ink caps. They grow pretty fast and are easy to move.
Good luck and have fun!

[@bambros_devs]

Great video, thankyou. I've read that slime moulds can solve pathfinding problems as they grow. It'd be interesting to see how mushrooms grow around or through obstacles (e.g. blades, nets etc)

[@TravelOns]

Great suggestion! Thanks for the kind comment :)