Over the summer since I graduated, it seems like I have been in somewhat of a creative mire, not really working on anything satisfying. Instead I have been taking a lot of pictures, and learning some new techniques, perhaps resulting in another project at some point in the future.
One technique that I’ve been working on quite a bit is Timelapse photography. A little more than a year ago in New Media Studies, I built an intervalometer out of a 555 timer IC and a transistor to do the switching, and a few other resistors and capacitors to control time interval of how fast it triggers the shutter of whatever digital SLR you are using it with (I have a Canon 350d / Rebel XT). I got caught up in other things and never really used it, … until this summer. Following are a couple of the better results. (more after the break)
With this one I decided I would shoot an epic wide-angle timelapse of the light-patterns reflected through the trees on a windy night onto this billboard. Unfortunately, some guy got in my shot.
This sprinkler timelapse was shot a while previous. I used a flash to illuminated the sprinklers and the grass, but of course the sprinklers stopped sprinkling before I wanted them to, so I had to do something to give it an exciting ending… the only thing I had handy was my face.
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