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...

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...

Jun 5, 2012

Each day from six am until midnight, the Guangzhou Metro, the city’s light rail metro system, transports an average 5 million passengers. During evening rush hour millions of Guangzhou’s urban residents whisk underneath the city on eight lines of the MTR. Lines 1, 2, and 5 are some of the most densely packed train lines at rush hour, passing directly...

Mar 22, 2012

This photo was taken using the Canon 180mm f/3.5 L series macro lens. In Make Mountains out of Mole Hills I wrote about some of the features of this lens that stood out for me. This photograph of a Cosplay stage performance shows two things well. One, that this macro lens works great for photographing portraits.Little bugs, flower buds, and blades of grass are...