timelapse

  • Found Film Friday: Only Briefly Misplaced

    Every week I post a roll of “found” film that has been forgotten in someone’s attic or inside a camera, often for half a century.  You never know what you’re going to end up with though.  With the old spools, it’s pretty clear that the pictures will be pretty old, and often yield a few

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  • Driving in Chennai: Timelapse

    In time-lapse photography, it’s common to keep the camera pretty still and let the subject do the moving – or if at all, to move the camera very slowly.  But it can also be fun to do a moving camera time-lapse, especially when you want to convey something about the sometimes frantic (at least to

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  • Namibia: Street View

    I don’t think we really have Google Street View in Namibia just yet.  In fact, I don’t believe they have worked out where the different house numbers are on the streets – GPS systems just get you to the right street, and the rest is up to you. So I took a drive through Windhoek

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  • Namibian Nights: The Best Timelapse Ever

    I’ve looked at a lot of timelapses, and after a certain number of them you just start to want to fast forward through them because they’re spectacular and all, but after awhile everything just sort of starts to look the same.  This one, however, is different.  Not only because I’ve tried to take photos in

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  • Town of Ghosts

    Awhile back, I posted about photographing ghost towns – specifically Kolmanskop, Namibia.  When we looked at photographing the town, we thought about whether it might look better in black and white – but that morning, the warm light made everything so orange, with the sand filling most of the buildings, we thought color made things

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  • Under the Namibian Sky (Time Lapse)

    Namibia is truly one of the most amazing places for stargazing – sparse population, cloudless sky… Here is a timelapse by a group of folks who spent 10 days (and nights) on a Namibian farm doing just that.  Add a bunch of time on a computer making this video.  I didn’t see a figure, but

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  • 21 Sunsets – a timelapse project

    I love doing timelapses – especially of natural phenomena.  But I admit it can be a lot harder than it first appears – if you want to do it right.  But moving to Namibia and finding housing on a westward-facing hill – I knew that would be a great opportunity to hone my timelapse skills.

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  • Flower TimeLapses using iPad

    I’ve noticed a number of the flowers here in Namibia open and close daily.  Especially some of the succulents and cacti.  What that means is that if I want to do timelapse videography I can try and record every day until I get it right.  Unfortunately some of the succulents flower only one day, which

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  • iPad 2 Stop-Motion: Windhoek Sunset

    Here’s another attempt at using the iPad 2 and the TimeLapse HD app to create a timelapse video.  This one consists of stills taken every 5 seconds from a rooftop in Windhoek, Namibia.  There is a bit of flicker toward the end as the ipad adjusts to the changing lighting.  I’ll have to see whether

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  • Review: iPad App Timelapse Camera HD

    As I continue to look for ways to make my iPad useful beyond being a lightweight web browser / game console, I came across a handy app for creating timelapse videos:  the aptly named Timelapse Camera HD.  This elegant and simple app lets you set an interval between photos, the frame rate, choose front or

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