Uploads from OneEighteen, tagged timelapse

Arrival, Barbour's Cut

nobody@flickr.com (OneEighteen) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:19:35 -0700

Inbound in rainy squalls for berthing at Houston's Barbours Cut container terminal. I've been meaning to post this for awhile but haven't gotten around to it. Ship is 880x106'. The Longavi.

Taken with the Nikon D700 set to take a photo once every two seconds and played back at 24 frames per second. I shot raw files to have the capability of easier adjustment of the exposures later if necessary, but in the end I didn't do any of that.

Rifugio Coldai

nobody@flickr.com (OneEighteen) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:25:16 -0700

OneEighteen posted a video:

One of the pleasures of hiking in the Dolomites is lounging around watching the clouds move across the landscape. This is the view from the deck of Rifugio Coldai, Alta Via 1, Dolomite Mountains, Italy. The photos were taken at 12 second intervals and played back at 10 frames per second.

Rain At Last

nobody@flickr.com (OneEighteen) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:00:02 -0700

OneEighteen posted a video:

Time lapse of Houston skyline, Greenway Plaza and Galleria. 350 photos taken 20 seconds apart and played back at 15 frames per second. Used Nikon D700 w/ 17-35mm lens. Ignore the blob in the upper right. I caught the corner of the balcony above without noticing and did the best I could to make it less obvious.

We needed a good soak.

Night Run II, 2nd Half

nobody@flickr.com (OneEighteen) — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:47:25 -0700

OneEighteen posted a video:

Broken into two halves to meet Flickr's arbitrary 90 second time limit.

The two halves were assembled in Quicktime from 2000 still images taken by using a Nikon D700 in the "interval timer" mode. The camera was fastened to an outside rail and set to take a photo every six seconds. Quicktime then assembled the photos into a .mov file that plays back at 12 frames per second. So, one minute of movie time represents 72 minutes of trip time on the channel. The first half begins just below the Port of Houston Authority Turning Basin (the very end of the channel) and continues down to Green's Bayou. The second half takes us from there to Morgan's Point at the head of Galveston Bay. From there we still have 31.5 miles of channel across the bay to the pilot station outside the Galveston jetties.

CAMERA SETTINGS were all manual to avoid surprises. The lens was a Nikon 17-35mm zoomed out to 17mm. White balance was set to tungsten, manual focus, iso 1600, 1/8 sec/ f/4. After the first part of the trip where the shore and docks are less dense I bumped the exposure up two stops to 1/4 sec and f/2.8. The overall result was a little dark for my taste after the deck floodlights were turned off so I added 1.33 gamma to all the photos taken after the deck lights were off. When I make the 1080 version I'll fool around to make a more gradual transition there and will probably decease the exposure around the last terminal and bridge (on the second video).

It looks incredibly fast, but we were actually only making 5-6 knots in the first half and no more than 10 knots in the open areas of the second half.

You can watch the whole 3 minute piece in HQ here.

A daylight trip going all the way to the Gulf of Mexico can be found here.

A similar trip through the Panama Canal can be found here.

Night Run II, 1st Half

nobody@flickr.com (OneEighteen) — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:41:59 -0700

OneEighteen posted a video:

Broken into two halves to meet Flickr's arbitrary 90 second time limit. SECOND HALF

The two halves were assembled in Quicktime from 2000 still images taken by using a Nikon D700 in the "interval timer" mode. The camera was fastened to an outside rail and set to take a photo every six seconds. Quicktime then assembled the photos into a .mov file that plays back at 12 frames per second. So, one minute of movie time represents 72 minutes of trip time on the channel. The first half begins just below the Port of Houston Authority Turning Basin (the very end of the channel) and continues down to Green's Bayou. The second half takes us from there to Morgan's Point at the head of Galveston Bay. From there we still have 31.5 miles of channel across the bay to the pilot station outside the Galveston jetties.

CAMERA SETTINGS were all manual to avoid surprises. The lens was a Nikon 17-35mm zoomed out to 17mm. White balance was set to tungsten, manual focus, iso 1600, 1/8 sec/ f/4. After the first part of the trip where the shore and docks are less dense I bumped the exposure up two stops to 1/4 sec and f/2.8. The overall result was a little dark for my taste after the deck floodlights were turned off so I added 1.33 gamma to all the photos taken after the deck lights were off. When I make the 1080 version I'll fool around to make a more gradual transition there and will probably decease the exposure around the last terminal and bridge (on the second video).

It looks incredibly fast, but we were actually only making 5-6 knots in the first half and no more than 10 knots in the open areas of the second half.

This was a Panamax ship, 106 feet wide, and about 600 feet long with 32 feet of draft.

@ 1:13 a seagull is photographed in the upper left quarter making a bright flash - several people asked what that was.

You can watch the whole 3 minute piece in HQ here.

A daylight trip going all the way to the Gulf of Mexico can be found here.

A similar trip through the Panama Canal can be found here.

***************************************** MUSIC ***************************************************
An incredible number of suggestions about music to go with this piece have been posted here and on the whole 3 minute piece on YouTube. From the beginning my choice would have been the following, but I never attached it to the video because I was concerned about copyright issues. Here is the music from Babatunde Olatunji that I recommend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=41p2a0zqMMY

Night Run

nobody@flickr.com (OneEighteen) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:32:58 -0700

OneEighteen posted a video:

This is another time lapse video made by setting a camera on a tripod (preferably, in this case a stack of books) and setting it to take a photo every 6 seconds. The playback is at 10 frames per second so the action is shown at 60 times as fast as it actually happened. In this case the part of the trip shown lasted 76 minutes (out of a 5 hour trip). Taken on the upper Houston Ship Channel.

Technical Info: The Nikon D300 has an "Interval Timer" setting that allows up to 999 photos to be taken at regular intervals. In this case I set the interval to 6 seconds. The camera settings were: Manual focus, Manual exposure, 1/4 sec, f/2.8, ISO 800, WB=tungsten, quality=.jpg normal. The lens was a Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8. All the manual settings were favored over auto settings so there would be no drastic changes between shots. My old camera would take a WB=daylight or something else at odd intervals. The whole sequence was about 760 photos. I started with a fully charged battery and figured it would poop out after a while, but the process only used up 2 of 5 bars on the battery indicator. A surprise.

The lowest .jpg quality setting for the camera yields a 4288x2848 image at 300 ppi. That's way too much for video so I fooled around with it and used Photoshop Scripts->Image Processor to edit the batch of files down to 900x600 at 72 ppi. Then I used Quicktime Pro to turn the sequence into a .mov file which plays at 10 frames per second. If anyone knows a better way I'd love to hear from them.

500 Knots Part II

nobody@flickr.com (OneEighteen) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:51:27 -0700

OneEighteen posted a video:

Time lapse video. About 1000 individual photos taken 6 seconds apart and combined with the Quicktime program to be shown at a frame rate of 15 frames per second. Due to the Flickr video limits of 150mb/90 sec I had to split the video. This is the second part from the Fred Hartman Bridge out to sea.

Actually I think we get up to over 900 knots apparent speed in this continuation of the voyage. Lots of ship traffic. The clouds over Galveston were great.

Here's a link to a similar voyage through the Panama Canal:
www.metacafe.com/watch/1063460/through_panama_canal_in_75...

Video Link

nobody@flickr.com (OneEighteen) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:45:54 -0700

OneEighteen posted a photo:

I posted another time lapse sequence. The whole sequence is about three minutes long.... too much for Flickr, but the link to Vimeo is vimeo.com/30652814.

In this sequence we're on an inbound general cargo ship going from Morgan's Point, at the head of Galveston Bay, to the very end of the channel at the Port of Houston Turning Basin where we turn the ship and go back downstream a little to dock head out at the public docks.

Time Lapse, 10/26/10

nobody@flickr.com (OneEighteen) — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:25:15 -0800

OneEighteen posted a video:

Taken on the Houston Ship Channel. Nikon D700 set to take photos at 2 second intervals. Played back at 24 fps. Looks best in full screen mode.