Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

Cold Morning

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

BoatGot up at 5:00am this morning and froze my ass off for this series. See here for the movie (60MB).  You’re best off right clicking and “Save Target as”.This is going to be harder than I first thought.  I’m not overly impressed with how it turned out.  Also, there’s way more to getting a good quality video posted to the internet than I imagined. 

Eclipse Movie Test

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

So I froze my ass off the other night taking a time lapse sequence of the last lunar eclipse ’til 2010.  I took about 350 pictures, one every 15 seconds, and combined them in Quicktime Pro.  MoonHere’s the result.  Also, I made a trip to the Croton Dam last weekend.  Here’s a taste of that one.

Eventually I want to make a film something like this.  Ross Ching was featured in Popular Mechanics the other month and it really struck a chord.  I started taking time lapse movies back with my old Canon G1 hooked up in a closet watching salt water crystalize back in 2001.  I hadn’t thought of it again until now.  As Sarah can attest, it’s been on my mind lately….