Clonmacnoise
Unfortunately the cross was crooked so either the ground could be straight or the cross wonky. Oh well, I suppose it has been there for hundreds of years so I should really forgive it…
Slea Head Statue
This was kind of the whole point of the re-design: to be able to show bigger pictures. I might as well make use of it!
Killaloe Time-Lapse Video
Here is the video I was talking about the other day. Just a quick note on how it was done: I set my camera on a tripod on my balcony and set it to fully manual exposure(you don’t want the exposure suddenly changing in the middle of your movie) and fully manual focus (obviously enough you don’t want the focus to change half-way through either). I also used a small aperture and a ND Filter to give a long-ish shutter speed. A long shutter speed is preferable because you want a little bit of motion blur in your shots, so that they will blend together a bit when you combine them. Then I connected the camera to my laptop via USB, and using Nikon’s Camera Control Pro in timelapse mode, I set it to take one picture every ten seconds. I left it run until the battery in my camera died, and it took 1700 pictures.
When I had all the photos, I imported them into Lightroom, made some small adjustments, and synched all the photos up so that they looked the same. I then used a piece of software called VideoMach to put them all together, at thirty frames per second, which gives a smooth video. That’s about it!
Here’s the video:
Killaloe at Night
This is a combination of a load of one-minute shots taken from my balcony last week. As you can see there’s quite a lot going on. The reason it’s lots of dots rather than a continuous line is because I left a gap between each shot. The reason for this was because I was actually taking these shots to make into a time-lapse video, which is below the picture. I have another, much more impressive one of these to post but I’ll leave you in suspense because I only have a limited amount of stuff to post at the moment! If you’re really interested just check my youtube account…
