Travel the Planet, and Photograph It
Feb 10, 2013
Today is Chinese Lunar New Year, the year of the snake. To celebrate the holiday I’ve put together a short time lapse of the Xihu flower fair that opened on Thursday. The Xihu flower fair is one of the largest and longest running annual flower fairs in Guangzhou. Each year in the days leading up to Chinese Spring Festival, the lunar new year, the...
Jan 6, 2013
AT THE end of the year each of us will go through our own ritual of shedding the old and donning the new; resolutions will be made and broken, donation boxes will be filled and carted to shelters, papers will be filed and sealed, and images and video will be archived in an effort to neatly pack up the past and step into the future. My contribution to 2012 as...
Oct 29, 2012
Last month I posted a time-lapse of dusk that worked out so well I wanted to try another. In that shot I was concerned about the camera’s ability to capture the cooling tones of the sky as the sun set further under the horizon. The way that the camera balanced the darkening blue sky against the expanding intensity of the street lights was quite a pleasant...
Sep 29, 2012
You’re watching a one-hour+ span of sunset compressed into six seconds. After the first time-lapse I posted last month, which was captured mid-day with relatively little variation in exposure settings, I wondered if it would be so easy at another time of day when the light was much less consistent. I chose sunset over sunrise for the simple reason that I...
Sep 22, 2012
Set your camera’s default color space to Adobe RGB. For most professional photographers, setting the color space default capture is one of the first few steps in setting up a new camera for use after unboxing. It is nearly a reflex. The rest of the photographic community may not be so aware but should enjoy the...
Aug 21, 2012
You are watching three hours roll by in a 12-second time-lapse video looped endlessly into an animated .gif that I produced in Adobe Premiere. The absolute most time consuming part of making this time-lapse animated .gif was capturing the composition. Once the frames were recorded, the steps to assemble and process them into a looped animation were fast and...
Chad Stuart Owsley, the owner/editor/producer of this site, is a photographer and foreign expert lecturer on photography and photojournalism from the United States, working in Guangzhou, China.
