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I know, I know. Not strictly a photo, but rather a time-lapse of 6,926 photos. but it's a) last month and b) I'm proud of each and every one of them. So there. ;-P
From last night's ride. No tripod!
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/58126471@N06/5374495706/ ]track_opening_day_equipment_zoom_hori_720_20_08_05-tiltshift2[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/58126471@N06/ ]924185418699ff956e470b7b637e7bc5[/url], on Flickr
Nice pic el_boufador, but is the cyclist going backwards? Get yerself a decent flash that man!
A Serval cat from Chester Zoo.
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My favourite barista
she's now mine too
Here's another shot ...
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Sorry, but for the 2nd time tonight, I give you
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That guy needs some skin care products !!!
IA - nice time lapse. What software do you use please for compiling the stills into a video? I've got the stills but my software crashes if I try compiling a decent number of them...
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/crewlie/5376089688/ ]Sticky Note Origami[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/crewlie/ ]crewlie[/url], on Flickr
IA - nice time lapse. What software do you use please for compiling the stills into a video? I've got the stills but my software crashes if I try compiling a decent number of them...
Any video editing software such as Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut etc should do it. Just import as a "numbered sequence", then you can edit it like a normal piece of footage. I think Quicktime Pro will also allow you to compile them and export as a video file. Same goes for MPEG Streamclip, not certain about that but it's free so worth a go!
Came across this Harris Hawk today whilst it was hunting with it's owner.. Super Kewl 🙂
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and Tron Sheep [Ready Brek]
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Not this month, but from my honeymoon. Only just got round to shoving on flickr.
Thanks for the info about the purple bag pic, it hadn't occured to me to go to Flickr and check for a geotag. I'm up in that there London Village early next month so I'll pop along and check it out. Might get a good photo opportunity myself.
It's been a crap month for me, so here goes
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/25655510@N02/5370280253/ ]January 18th - Nearly Full[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/25655510@N02/ ]Johnclimber[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginja_andy/5379022442/ ]Primrose Hill[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/ginja_andy/ ]andymatthewsphotography.com[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginja_andy/5379051924/ ]Ghost man[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/ginja_andy/ ]andymatthewsphotography.com[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginja_andy/5378451589/ ]Hill[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/ginja_andy/ ]andymatthewsphotography.com[/url], on Flickr
Flippin 'eck, the quality on this thread is improving all the time 🙂
Can we somehow consolidate the photos into some kind of easily browsable gallery? Something on flickr itself perhaps? I tried reading the whole thing back but it was taking forever.
Some of my 'photo a day' set:
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DrP
IA, that is fabulous, really excellent. Yurs, and the stuff by the chap in brighten from earlier in the thread are really spectacular. lot's of great photos, but for some reason the time laps videos just really work for me.
If you want ot show a photo, you'd print it the appropriate size and hAng it on the wall, wonder what the best 'display' medium would be for the time lapse stuff? Big dark room with a projector and excellent sound system for each video?
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Taken early this morning..
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To my eye, looks like the HDR edits, but isn't!
DrP
Oops, not checked this in a while.
big_scot_nanny, thanks for the kind words 🙂
jemima, the images are compiled into quicktime reference movies with quicktime 7 (quick how-to on my blog here: http://doitdifferent.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/lapsed/ ) and then edited together with iMovie. iMovie's not great for it, as you're limited to 24/30 fps output. 60 or 50fps would be nice for some effects - some of the clips in that video have frames cut from them for that reason, which is a bit of a shame, smoother motion would be nice.
In windows, I think Virtualdub will compile image sequences into movies for you. An issue is timelapse doesn't compress well in most video formats, as there's a comparatively large difference between each frame. So save with ideally something with no/little compression (MJPEG could be a good choice, or quicktime reference files as I do).
Oh, and music can really make or break time lapses IMO. A good source of permissively licensed work is www.musopen.org, http://soundcloud.com/creativecommons (to search for CC licensed work) and www.mobygratis.com.
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last summer but I love it 🙂
A few here from last Jan as I slowly work my way though my harddisk...
I'm particularly liking Rocketdog's rider shot and purplebag by ginjaninja. Ewan's are brilliant too!
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_farrell/5392951910/ ]On the way to Scout Road Chippy?[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/mark_farrell/ ]Mark-Farrell[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_farrell/5392351975/ ]Pony at sunset[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/mark_farrell/ ]Mark-Farrell[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_farrell/5392347895/ ]Lone moss[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/mark_farrell/ ]Mark-Farrell[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_farrell/5392942406/ ]Pony in the field[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/mark_farrell/ ]Mark-Farrell[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_farrell/5392933710/ ]Moss and a droplet[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/mark_farrell/ ]Mark-Farrell[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_farrell/5392331627/ ]Stonewalled[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/mark_farrell/ ]Mark-Farrell[/url], on Flickr
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Is that in the Lancaster Brewery, Grumm?
Finally got my Astrotrac working tonight and for a first photo of the Orion Nebular Im pretty happy with this... (brand new to astrophotography, something a little different!)
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Now that [i]IS[/i] cool...
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taken on my phone camera earlier today and thought it looked quite nice. reminds me of summer sun, but bloody hell it was cold 😆
zokes - yup. Was originally Yates and Jackson brewery, then Mitchell's - stopped brewing in 1999.
charlierevell - that is very cool - roughly how much are we talking to get a setup that can do stuff like that?
wish i could take pictures like some of them
I got my son a little point and snap camera for his birthday and he took this shot at Loch Lubnaig just before new years eve.
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Grumm- Thought it would be something a little different!
If it stays clear Im going to head up to the hills and try some darker shots of a few more subjects!
As long as you have an SLR then it'll cost you about £8-900
You'll need an Astrotrac (search google for it) They do a holiday kit based on a manfrotto tripod, geared head and ball head.
Works very well, and that was my first ever attempt at doing it.
You can get them off a normal tripod, but you'll only get 2-3second shots before they blur. You can take loads of them and put them together in deep sky stacker. You'd lack some details from what I've found tho.
Have a look at the astrotrac website for what can be done... they're much better than mine!
Charlie,
I'm wanting to try some astrophotography this year but I'm pretty clueless. So far I've managed this not-very-impressive effort:
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Recently acquired a 130mm reflector telescope and already have an SLR so I think I just need a t-mount to put both of them together. The telescope has built in tracking motors but it's an alt/azi mount rather than equitorial so I'm not sure if it'll work for proper long exposures (field rotation or something?).
I reckon the stack of short exposures and clever software route is the way to go to minimise noise - my SLR isn't too clever with exposures longer than 30 seconds (lots of hot-pixels on the sensor it seems).
What are you using as a "lens"?
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginja_andy/5404663776/ ]Pretty in pink[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/ginja_andy/ ]andymatthewsphotography.com[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginja_andy/5398868727/ ]Stair[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/ginja_andy/ ]andymatthewsphotography.com[/url], on Flickr
Took this'un at Woburn today, looked better in black & white due to using my compact which doesn't bring out colours very nicely.
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I remember standing in a queue in the photography shop waiting for pics that were getting developed and the guy in front of me opened up the envelope with his pics as he waited for the payment to go through and i couldnt help but notice his amazing pics of the moon (i recon he was showing them off as much as i was being a nosey bazza) I asked him what he was using and he said he wangled his old slr onto a telescope.He did say that there was a bit of butchery and said to not use my best kit if i was planning on trying it but the pics were amazing.tons of detail.