Theme 1

Timelapses

To create these timelapses of the stars, I had to set up my camera on a tripod. Using my Nikon 10.5mm Fisheye lens, I set the aperture to f/2.8 and the shutter to around 20 seconds. To keep my camera going, I used an intervalometer, that made the camera take a picture about every 5 seconds. The camera took photos constantly for about two hours before I stopped it. I took all the photos and opened them in an image sequence in Quicktime Pro, playing the frames back at 24 frames per second in 1080p. 

This being my first try making a timelapse, I am really stoked with the finished product. I think one of the main weaknesses is the strength of the stars light. I had to adjust the lighting to compensate for what was coming out of the house, which ended up making the stars darker than I would like. A full moon also contributed to the weaker light of the stars. One of the greater strengths is the framing of the big dipper in the lines that the roof creates in the first one down below. My main frustration while shooting these was my camera's battery life; it did not last as long as I would've liked it to in the cold, making the timelapses much shorter than desired.

I think that timelapses are a great way to show pulse. In the first of the two, you get to see the pulse of the sky, as well as the residents of the house, as lights turn on and off, and ideally timelapse would've ended with all the lights off. The second shows less of the pulse of the house, and more of the sky, as clouds enter the frame and disappear.

Rythym

For this rythym composite, I took each photo of my friend longboarding, and overlayed it over the first one. From there on, I used a layer mask to get rid of all the info that was in the way of the previous picture. After doing that for each layer, I collapsed all of them together into one layer so I could edit the picture as a whole. I added a high pass layer to make the details stand out more, as well as a black and white filter with some added exposure and contrast.

I really like how this turned photo turned out. I think the movement looks really cool in a sequence like this. The major weakness of the picture was the dull and boring colors that were present when I took the sequence, I think I did a good job hiding this by using the black and white and I think it adds a lot to it. If I were to redo this image, I think I would have shot at a faster shutter speed, as there are a few layers that were a little blurred by the motion.