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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Another Time-lapse Video
Ever since I learned how to make a time-lapse video, I have been wanting to do one of rolling clouds. Unfortunately, the weather had not been cooperating: it was either -30°C with no clouds, or it was completely clouded over and snowing. Finally, yesterday was a perfect day for the kind of shots I wanted; so I set up the camera at our front window on a tripod. Over 1,700 pictures were taken between 9:15am and 2:15pm (the batteries died). Below is the result.
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8 comments:
WOW, that looks really, really cool! I really have to figure out that hack. Might need another "tutoring" session on the phone sometime soon! BTW, everyone loves the tree house time-lapse video!
The shadows creeping across the bottom of the video really make it apparent how much time has elapsed. Very cool.
Trent
Thanks! This could well be my new hobby :) I was hoping to see the snow on the roof tops melt more rapidly.
Speaking of coolness, check out http://www.vimeo.com/2317118. Now that is cool.
Wow. I'd really like to figure out how to do THAT! Let me know when you've got it all worked out and can just give me a 10 minute tutorial okay? ;)
Unfortunately, the "real" miniature effect requires a digital SLR camera and a thousand dollar lens (namely, a "tilt-shift lens"). You can fake it though, but you will also have hundreds of images to fake to create a video out of it. I played with a picture from our 2006 Hong Kong/Shanghai trip and it looks like this. Google or search Flickr for "tilt shift" and you will find a lot of cool shots. This one looks like Bob the Builder.
That is so cool!!
Now if only we had that set up for our big 'melt' 2 weeks ago!
Here's another really cool stop-motion video: http://danrichardson.org/2009/02/03/unbelievable-stop-motion/
That is really cool! I remember when I was in grade school, I drew stick figures in the margin of a textbook (while I was paying attention to the teacher, of course ;-) and created a little running man jumping hurdles and whatnot. Ah all that fun stuff.
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