anton decided to paint one of his bedroom walls, last month.
he had already moved all the furniture away when we had the idea of doing a time-lapse, so we put everything back to normal, set up the camera, and started from the beginning.
i think it was worth it:
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the video was created using my sony cybershot f828 and the jg-rc2 intervalometer.
sandra (purple) kicked our ass in no time, so we added a very short stop-motion sequence…
a 3-second-interval and 13 fps makes a speedup of about 40x (1 sec. in the video equals 40 seconds real-time).
i’m trying out flash video player 3.5 by jeroen wijering. please let me know if it doesn’t work for you.
in october 2004, i decided to let my hair grow for an entire year.
we all know the horrific outcome of this plan… :-)
i started documenting this “project” from the beginning – here’s a collage of self-portraits:
while i was in spain, i decided to make a time-lapse video of the (apparent) movement of a star-constellation in the night sky.
unfortunately i couldn’t include the northern star this time, showing that all the stars seem to rotate around it. i think i’ll do this in another video sometime.
given the preconditions (location and timeframe), the big dipper (ursa major, grosser wagen) [wikipedia: de en] was the perfect motive.
 the movement of the big dipper in the night sky |
i recently discovered youtube.com – a free internet service that allows easy sharing of videos.
what they do is convert uploaded videos into flash movies, which (almost?) everybody can watch.
have a look at this, for instance:
i never got to post this *here*, but there it is now:
in the last few months, every now and then i found some time to play with my JG-RC2 and i’m really content.
the final firmware isn’t available yet, but i’m fine with the preliminary one, so far. (that’s how i got it in the first place – the final product version is not available, so i ordered the beta-version. but only the firmware will be different in the final version – and it’s upgradeable.)
remember the previous time-lapse project that i published?
all the pupae hatched about 3 weeks ago. actually, when the first one hatched on july 20th, i decided to slow down their final steps of development and caused a not so unusual (just think of today’s climate) …cold-weather period. ok, i put them in the fridge. they were not harmed, but didn’t hatch until i had the time to watch over them, two days later.
when i got home on friday, i quickly set up the equipment and placed the pupae in front of the camera. because there were 5 pupae and i didn’t know which one would hatch first, i had to take (bigger) overall-view photos and crop the interesting part later.
i had relocated the pupae onto a nearly planar twig when they were done pupating, so i could focus on all of them at once.
the whole process of one peacock butterfly (inachis io; tagpfauenauge) hatching only took about 14 minutes (including the unfolding of its wings), so it was at least three times more exciting to watch them hatch live.
i was shooting at a higher resolution (so i could get all of the pupae in the picture and still have detail) and the “temporal resolution” (interval: 4 seconds) was pretty high too, so although i had 5 pupae, only one video turned out the way i wanted…
here’s the video:
 butterfly hatching (download video) |
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2005-07-22 |
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Sony Cybershot DSC-F717 & JG-RC2 | |||
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video data:
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mpeg4/xvid – one pass: quality – 10 fps – qual: 90% (get the codec | help) | |||
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video length:
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21 sec. | |||
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speedup:
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x 40 (1 second in the video equals 40 seconds in real-time) | |||
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file size:
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980 KB | |||
i also put up a few of the single photos as an overview:
[view photos: time-lapse, part 7: butterfly hatching]
