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From the ranch

brad — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:37:53 +0000

I have a couple of new movies. Both movies run until the sun sets on the Chiricahua mountains. Because they capture the sunset there is a significant about of lens flare. I don’t think it detracts from the movie, but I’d be interested in other opinions.

This one is about ten hours of day reduced to four or so minutes. I think it’s nice.

(Use the HD button when you play the movie if you have the bandwidth. Note that the HD button only appears after the movies begin playing. Also, I believe it always fully buffers before playing.)

The second one was started in the late afternoon because the sky looked ripe. I think it’s a great movie, but every direction other than the one I chose to point my camera was spectacular — full of pretty clouds burning red. I think the angle and the speed the clouds travel make this movie.

I should mention that both these movies were made from the top of our shipping/storage container-in heavy winds. I am terrified of losing another camera due to the wind; however, I hate to do nothing when beautiful things are begging to be captured. I now have a ten pound weight I attach to the tripod with a stretch cord. So far so good.

Clouds over the Peloncillos

brad — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:29:22 +0000

We’re nestled in between the Chiricahua mountains and the Peloncillo mountains. I tend to photograph the Chiricahua’s because they are closer, but the Peloncillo’s are beautiful too. The evening light on the Peloncillo’s is something to see.

This is pretty much a cloud movie. I started filming early in the day — just a hunch really. As it turned out the sunset over the Chiricahua’s was stunning and I ended up disappointed… still this is pretty nice.

Looking around on the web for the correct spelling of Peloncillo I ran across this great web site — you might want to check it out.

A summer storm

brad — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:28:59 +0000

This is my longest and likely the best movie I have made. I’ve made a few changes to my hardware that allow me to create substantially longer movies. This one was 4000 plus frames shot over about six hours. It’s about three minutes long at 25 frames a second.

We were staying at Mountain Shadows Getaway in Portal AZ. This movie was shot in the car port at the guest house. There were amazing thunderstorms the entire time we were there. We were so busy I only set the camera up once, but I couldn’t be happier with the result.

It seems a little silly to write several posts when I’m building several movies from the same source. So… I’ll be adding new ones to this post over the next few days,

This one is a zoom to the lower left-hand corner. Nice but not especially better. I’m working on a painted movie that I think will be lovely.

I confess I’m a little in love with these movies with an oil paint filter applied to each frame.

The last two from Seattle

brad — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:58:36 +0000

Well, it’s been exciting here lately. With Cory from boingboing.net giving us a plug. All and all, it was very nice. The only negative was the guy who said a monkey could have done what I did and that it wasn’t worthy of boingboing. The next day boingboing featured a movie someone made from a batch of cupcakes that turned out inedible; they danced. I can only assume that was boingboing worthy. -ouch!

Here are the last two movies from Seattle. It’s the same movie, one with the paint effect and one without. What do you prefer?

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Seattle skyline

brad — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:02:34 +0000

So I’ve been doing these out of order. Before our trip to Victoria, we were in Seattle for a conference. This was shot out the window of our hotel. It’s pretty heavily cropped because there were reflections in the window. Still, it’s not bad.

Are we tired of Victoria yet?

brad — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:55:07 +0000

Hell no!

This is nicer than I originally thought. Lots of stuff going on. The way everything changes when the clouds get dark is cool too.

I added this one based on Christopher’s comment. I didn’t realize there were cars back there.

Into the night

brad — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:42:50 +0000

I don’t think this is the greatest example of time-lapse movie making, but I think watching day change to night this quick is still cool. Victoria, yet again…

Victoria part 2

brad — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:35:14 +0000

This is pretty much the same view, but a different time. The harbor is fairly active.