VoiceOfEmerika

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…

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

This one is just a tighter crop of the one from yesterday. I’m not convinced this is any better, just different.

This one (an even tighter crop) is just clouds and a couple of trees; it could be anywhere. I made it run a little quicker too.

It’s amazing the way clouds seem to form right before your eyes–maybe they are. Probably they are.

Karen and I went to Victoria in February. Indeed it was cold. The hotel we stayed in was on the harbor and had just enough balcony for my camera. I thought it might be too cold for my camera, but it preformed flawlessly. This is the first of it and the prettiest I think. I am working on a closeup of the clouds in the center of this as a follow up. I expect more will be up soon.

Clearly these clips I am collecting are just that… clips. I am starting to wrap my mind around creating something more. Karen seems to have a better handle on this than I do, but I will come around.

Last night the sunset was great. I had an idea to build a movie of it using three different crops of the same source. Originally I was going to get closer and closer, but I think the killer shot was the widest angle so I switched it around. Later, I spent a few minutes on ccMixter where I found some lovely music by Gianmaria Di Flumeri. I mixed it down a little (It was a brutal hack — I hope you can’t hear it. –cringe–) and threw the whole thing into a blender — sunset a la mode.

note: I am the monster in my movie. :)

The last few stills I worked on inspired me to retry a movie from those source images. The whole thing is a little mysterious to me right now. When I first tried this the movie it seemed to stand still. I tried speeding it up and was never happy with the results. This time I tried things a little differently and the first results are promising. I added the ability to skip over frames and I am using that with blending.

First results –

Thar be monsters in my movie…

I really need some kind kind of monster removal code. There are times when people (and birds, etc.) are a cool part of a movie. Then there are times like this one where it kind of breaks my heart. –sigh– I’ve been thinking about how to do this and it seems really hard. Occasionally, I’ll get out the Gimp and paint them out by hand, but arggg that’s a lot of work.