I promised ya video, and I got video. Don't blink or you might miss both meteors. I added end credits to make it seem longer. ;)
Did you ever wonder what a camera that's shooting a time lapse looks like? Wonder no more!
Is that a meteor in there? I think so!
Here's another angle.
And as an extra special bonus for both of you who are still reading, here's another image from that night. I would be remiss if I didn't give a shout out to the guy in the chair. The guy who snored FOR THE ENTIRE THREE HOURS that I was there. I guess he had come to see the show (hah!) and made himself so comfy that he fell fast asleep. Here's to you, snoring guy!
Here's a short time lapse sequence that I shot while on my rafting trip. The night time part would have been longer but I was shot after a day of rafting. The music is Jewel.
A few days ago I drove up to the Griffith Observatory to shoot some time lapses. Many things conspired against me and I got there much later than I'd hoped. Also, the clouds rolled in and cut the visibility quite a bit. What do you do in this situation? Make lemonade! I went ahead and shot a few sequences and found a number of places that will be great for future shooting. The video below is kind of a sketch of the full time lapse glory to come. ;) I can't wait to get back up there!
Here's a time lapse that I shot over several night during our recent trip to San Diego. It's so much fun being downtown and feeling that energy and excitement! Have a great Monday!
I shot this over several nights while we were staying in San Diego. We totally scored and got a corner room on the top floor of the hotel! Shot with my 7D and Tokina 12-24. Enjoy!
Many thanks to Philip Bloom for his many tips and tutorials, both on his website and twitter, about creating time lapses. I actually got to meet him at Skywalker Ranch during our trip and had a nice little chat about movies and gear. A real gentleman.
And now, on with the show.
This was all shot from my hotel room over the course of three days. For bodies I used a Canon 7D and 50D. For lenses I used the Canon 24-105L, 70-200L and Tokina 12-24. The shooting time ranged from 30 minutes to a bit more than 2 hours. I used the Canon TC80N3 to keep the interval love going.
Post wise, I combined all the frames in Quicktime 7 then exported them as a full size movie file. Editing was done in Final Cut Pro with the final movie compressed in VisualHub. Whew, that's a lot of tech talk.
I've been wanting to try another time lapse, but I keep saying to myself, "oh, if only I was this place or that place it would be cool." Well hey! Why not try one right outside my back door? So that's what I did. Two things you might notice. One, we have A LOT of air traffic. And two, yes we still have our Christmas tree up. Hey, we're festive. Enjoy. Oh, and please click on HD, it's much better.
I'm back, and San Diego was fantastic! We got a smokin' deal through Hotwire to stay at the US Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego. The hotel was great and the location was awesome. We were able to walk to so many great places and the drives we took were all pretty short. We've never spent much time in the downtown area so it was great to explore. If you're ever in the San Diego area and have kids, I highly recommend the New Children's Museum. This was my older son's highlight of the trip. We also visited the Wild Animal Park. I was a bit underwhelmed 'cuz it just seemed like a zoo with bigger enclosures. The weather was beautiful the whole time, so that was the icing on the cake. All in all, pretty fantastic.
Our hotel was located in the Gaslamp District. Lots of cool restaurants, clubs and theaters in this area. All of these places draw quite a few people on the weekends, so I went out on Saturday to capture some of the action. Enjoy. Oh, and as always, click on HD for video muy bueno.
Howdy all! How's 2010 treatin' ya? I waited all of about 16 hours into the new year before I had to go try out my new Christmas present, the Canon TC80N3 Timer Remote Control. Sexy name huh? The gist of it is, you can take pictures at regular intervals without having to connect to anything else. I've taken timelapse sequences with my DSLR before (like this one) but I had to have my camera connected to my laptop and control it with my iPhone. Pretty cumbersome setup, and my laptop always ran out of juice before anything else. Well, this little baby solves that problem, and now all I need to do these kinds of shoots fits in one small bag.
This timelapse shows the first sunset of the new year, and boy was it a doozy! All the technical info after the video. Oh, and do me a favor. Please click on the HD button for optimal viewing experience.
This video is made up of 2154 images shot over an hour and fifty minutes or so. I had it set to take an image every three seconds. I assembled the images in Quicktime 7 then exported a 1080p HD video to Final Cut Pro and finished the edit there. I am so excited about being able to basically shoot High Def video with my still camera! I ask for your patience as I go through this phase of shooting everything in timelapse. ;)
I thought I'd throw in some moving pictures to get the week started. I shot these sequences just down the road from my church, a few minutes before yesterday's pic. Have a great (short) week!
My last night in Yosemite I decided to head down to Tunnel View to shoot a time lapse of the stars and also some long exposure star trail images. As seems to happen with a lot of my photography, I stumbled upon something awesome. In setting up for the time lapse, I placed myself perfectly to capture the moon rising over the valley. The moon was about three days past full, but it was still plenty bright. Standing in that majestic place with the stars above and the moon revealing the beauty below, I was in awe. It was so quiet, and yet these massive cosmic forces were at work, spinning and orbiting through space. Words can't really describe, so I'll let you see a little bit of the grandeur that I saw. This 20 second video is comprised of 400 or so images covering just over 2 hours. Enjoy.
A little info for you techies out there. I used OnOne Software's DSLR Remote iPhone app to drive the time lapse. I connected the camera to my laptop that was running the DSLR Remote Server. I then logged on with my iPhone through an Ad Hoc network on my laptop. A bit cumbersome in the field, but a heckuva lot cheaper than buying an separate intervelometer for $150! And once it was set up, it was rock solid. I set it to take an image every 20 seconds and it went until the laptop ran out. I combined the images in Quicktime Pro at 24 framers per second. A tip if you're going to shoot a time lapse: don't shoot at the highest resolution. Shooting at a lower resolution makes the files much more manageable and you can get more on a memory card. And realistically you're not going to make a video at higher than HD resolution (1920 x 1080). I had my camera set to a medium jpeg and it made my processing later much easier, and the quality was still very good. The final movie at full resolution is like butta. Mmmm, butta.
Here's the first video from my Yosemite trip. These were individual frames taken with my DSLR then joined together later to play as a video. This covers about 2 hours and includes a little over 400 frames. I had so much fun experimenting and shooting these kinds of video/sequences. Enjoy!
It's like Motion Monday up in this blog! I was so excited about all the clouds around here this past weekend that I wanted capture them, but not in a static way. I've always really enjoyed time lapse photography and videography, so I thought I'd give it a go. I used the time lapse feature on my G9 to capture these. Please to enjoy!
