Photo Rig, Poofy, and a Real Rig

This is the setup I used to take the time-lapse video in my car yesterday.  I setup a tripod weighted down with a gallon water jug.  It worked pretty well although my old trusty Canon S60 can’t take photos quite fast enough to make a good driving time-lapse.

 

Surprisingly, no one looked at me funny while I drove up the road to Newberg.

 

I assert this is the cutest, most adorable kitty in the world.  I want to steal Poofy from my parents farm and bring her to Corvallis.  She works for her food, too.  My parents have an incredibly clean floor from her dust mop abilities.

 

Coming back to Corvallis last night, I saw this guy driving down the road in an old fixed-up car.  He only had one very dim tail light that didn’t seem to be wired to his brakes.  No turn signals.  No hand signa

Moonrise

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Six years ago I took a series of time-lapse photos in the oasis of Tozeur, Tunisia of the moon rising through the date palms.  Now that I am using VirtualDub, I can finally bring the video to life.  As you might be able to tell, there is a small change of frame about halfway through.  This was in the early days of me figuring out time-lapse photography.

The View Outside my Office

After my successful experiment with time-lapse photography the other day and the extended battery pack I built last night, I decided to test out shooting a time-lapse from my office window.  Thus, I produced the above time-lapse.  Not the most interesting scene in the world but it’s a start.  I set my camera to take a photo ever 15 seconds for about 150 frames.  Using the Canon RemoteCapture software installed on a Windows XP Virtual Machine, I drove the intervalometer at that faster speed.  Next time I think I will reduce the resolution of the images so it doesn’t take up so much space on my hard drive before I process them into a video.

So… what should I do a time-lapse of next?  My Roomba frolicking in my apartment?  Meal time at the fraternity?  Clouds rolling through campus?  Traffic outside my apartment?  My office-mates working in the lab?