I have been trying some new things here in Anza-Borrego including moving night time-lapses like you see here. I know some of my late night efforts have been ruined by unexpected headlights But, I have a feeling some might be working out.
Typically I will put these together once I’m home on a much faster computer, but wanted to assemble one while on the road just to see what is working and what isn’t, and since I did, I thought I would share it here. So, I do have one question, what do you think of the airplanes passing by? They look like shooting stars, but are planes. If necessary, I could avoid them by going later at night and/or with some post processing effort.
Here is another time lapse video. This one is of the Holland America cruise ship Veendam leaving Seward, Alaska last July 5, 2009. This was my second or third evening of trying to capture a ship leaving – it took a few tries before I could capture the entire turnaround in the frame, while still have a fairly tight composition. If you change the settings in the bottom corner of the You Tube frame, you can see it full frame in 1080 HD.
A post about leaving Seward is fitting as we are leaving Seward later today bound for Denali National Park. We may have one or two occasions where we have access to the internet – if I do, and have something worthy I will put it on the blog, but it is very likely I won’t post again until next Tuesday.
Take a 12 minute trip down the Las Vegas Strip in 12 seconds, and then enjoy the Downtown laser light show! I’m surprised it only took 12 minutes to drive the length of the strip, that is because it was a cold, winter mid-week evening. By the way, if you have the bandwidth or patience, you can watch it in 1080 HD.
This is my first attempt at putting together a time-lapse video. I actually captured the stills for the strip footage 4 years ago on the same night as this Las Vegas Strip photo. You might notice that the demolished Stardust is still standing and open, and City Center doesn’t yet exist. The downtown laser show was from last fall.
Four years ago – I had a big head start on the recently popularity for time-lapse – unfortunately these files have just been sitting on my computer. I shot a fair amount of Alaska time-lapse footage last summer, and hope to do something with it soon as well. It has been a bit of a steep learning curve – the long list of words like codec, MPEG4, H.264 are like a whole new language to me. I have to thank Phil Colla for getting me headed in the right direction.
For those who are interested in how I captured the images of the strip, you might enjoy this blog post: Las Vegas Strip
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But, I have a feeling some might be working out.
