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Weather Near Jackson, Wyoming

thedude — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:05:13 +0000

Kelly and I are heading to Jackson this weekend for mini-vacation with Chris and Ben. We’ve been wondering what kind of weather to expect, so naturally, we checked out Weather Underground, and were pleased to find a perfect forecast. The forecast for today included thundershowers, so I found the best Jackson weather cam I could find (who new there were so many?), captured a frame every 30 seconds and put together this rather cool time-lapse.

I’ve gotten lazy, so you’ll need an HTML5 browser to view the video. I recommend Chrome. Don’t worry – it’ll play perfectly on your iPhone and iPad. Maybe some day I’ll create a Flash version for the rest of you. :)

Time-Lapse Masterpiece

thedude — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:14:50 +0000

If you like time-lapse photography, check out this amazing example. Incredible.

New Job, New Commute

thedude — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:36:43 +0000

The first thing you’ll notice is that it covers a lot more ground than my previous commute. And a bridge. Compressed to 38 seconds, this works out to about 1,700 miles per hour. If only it were possible to get to the office this fast!

I love my new job! The commute? Not so much.

Click to view a neat high definition version. (48 MB)

Here’s a shot of the high-tech rig I used to shoot this. One frame every two seconds. I would have liked to shoot one frame per second, but the camera’s intervalometer maxes out at 1,000 frames, and I can not possibly make this drive in under 1,000 seconds. The trip took 1904 seconds this Sunday morning.

Wow!

thedude — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:39:36 +0000

This is amazing in so many ways. I suggest you view the HD version full-screen at Vimeo.

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

Lazy Man’s Time-Lapse

thedude — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:00:32 +0000

The Bay Area has seen some very interesting weather in the last few weeks. We’ve seen way more than average rainfall and below normal temperatures. I’ve been feeing bad about not getting out to shoot some pictures of the snow, the rainbows or gorgeous fluffy clouds we so rarely see in the Bay Area. Well, this morning I came up with a way to capture some of our weird weather without getting wet – or even leaving my chair!

First, I grabbed the current weather image every sixty seconds from to the Lawrence Hall of Science WebCam using wget on one of my Linux boxes. This camera produces much better image quality than the average webcam, and it would be difficult to find to a more scenic overview of the Bay Area.

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After I had gathered up a few hundred Images, I used the powerful and cool Graphic Converter on my wife’s Mac Mini to produce a Quicktime movie of a day’s worth of spectacular Bay Area weather. The results are so awesome that I will definitely do this again!

Another Manila Traffic Time-Lapse

thedude — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:32:23 +0000

I made a second time-lapse while in Manila, hoping to catch the controlled chaos that is Manila traffic. I pointed the camera out of the sun roof of our vehicle and began snapping at what seemed like an opportune moment. I wanted to show how the traffic continues to move – albeit slowly. We rarely come to a complete stop despite the overcrowding. What you don’t see is how patient the drivers are with one another. People ignore lanes altogether and sometimes even drive against the flow, but I never heard a horn sounded in anger.

As luck would have it, traffic was lighter than it had been at any other time along this route, but once again, the results are pretty cool. I like to look at individual frames and check out the skyline and the hundreds of enormous billboards.

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Manila Traffic Time Lapse

thedude — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:37:38 +0000

We had the opportunity to hang out on the 27th floor balcony of a building in the heart of Manila. I realized that this might be my one chance to shoot a time-lapse of the traffic, so I leaned the D2X and the monopod against the railing and started shooting. I had hoped for rush-hour traffic, but we arrived a bit early and had just 40 minutes in which to shoot the 1000 images needed to make this video. Traffic is not as heavy as I’d hoped, but the resulting video is still kinda cool.

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My Commute in 44 Seconds

thedude — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:50:08 +0000

I felt motivated this morning, so I mounted the camera in the back of the Jeep and captured this time-lapse video (10 meg QuickTime file) of my six mile commute to Affymetrix. I noticed on the drive home that the commute FROM work would probably be more interesting. I’ll try to shoot that tomorrow. :-)

Let’s see… that’s 1 frame per second x 15 frames per second playback speed, so time is accelerated 15 times. My 70 miles an hour is actually 70 x 15 = 1050 miles per hour. Not bad!

Koln to Dusseldorf at 2,000 Miles an Hour

thedude — Wed, 04 May 2005 01:49:25 +0000

I finally finished a couple of time-lapse videos from our recent trip to Europe! I think they’re pretty cool. Of course, I was there, so they may not have the same impact on you, but I hope you’ll check them out anyway.

To create these, I zip-tied the camera on a monopod to the railing on the ship and set the camera’s built-in intervalometer to shoot 999 frames – one every three seconds. The videos compress 45 minutes into 40 seconds.

The first video was shot when we left Koln. The ship turns downstream at the beginning, and whizzes past the city and the Koln Cathedral on the left.

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The second video was shot as we approached Dusseldorf. At the end of the video, the ship spins around and docks.

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