Bummer.
7/11/2006 08:44:00 AM
So, the M-Fers at Mattress Expo (or wherever the heck it was) called yesterday (the day before delivery, natch) to tell us they couldn't get the bed we selected to their warehouse in Denver, and could they choose a suitable alternative for us (Um, NO! Nimrods). So they're going to refund us (of course, the charge already went through) and we'll find a new bed out here somewhere. Total bummer.
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In other news, last evening I was playing around with time-lapse photography (take a picture every 5-10 seconds, assemble all the pictures into a movie) and caught this freaking awesome image of a lightning strike. Unfortunately, the time-lapse movie kind of blew. So I decided to get one of the sunset (linked below to the YouTube version. Google Video version not yet approved).
The YouTube version, of course, doesn't really do the sequence justice - it was originally encoded at 1600x700 (recorded still images at 1600xwhatever, and cropped out the houses under construction at the bottom of the frame). I bet it would look freaking awesome in HD. From now on, I'll try to do my time-lapse stuff so that it conforms with typical HD aspect ratios.
I also put up a lot of stuff from our hike up the mountain on Saturday. For whatever reason, my janky GPS logger didn't log the trek down (or at least, I can't tell from the images that it did). You can see those on Flickr here.
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6 Comments:
Very cool lightning pic. Must be nice to have picture ops everywhere. Maybe time to upgrade to the digital SLR. :-)
posted at 2:55 PM
Vid looks cool! Sure it would look even better in HD! F the new bed - get and HD TV! :)
Did you have you camera hooked up the the puter to do the time lapse? What proggy did you use to munge them together?
posted at 3:21 PM
Awesome photo!!
posted at 7:43 PM
Oh yeah, forgot to respond to your comment on this.
Thanks to Scott's tip, I'm using Quicktime to put all the stills together. It actually has an option "Open Image Sequence" that you just point to the first image in a series and it puts them all together for you. Then it's an easy step to export into whatever format you like.
And yeah, the Canon came with some software (that I never used before) called "Remote Capture" or some such thing. You can use it to control the camera, to take as many pics as you want in a sequence, in intervals of 5 seconds or greater.
posted at 9:53 AM
That's so cool. I'm so technologically behind. e.g. FINALLY figured out how to download our pictures from the new camera. We had to download some new software. Got a lot of pictures and video featuring you guys. My favorite is the Whitey Afro one that A-hole night. Sad, sad state we were all in!
posted at 6:26 AM
Nice lightning photo! Lightning fascinates me. I once saw a documentary on lightning shot in Arizona (or New Mexico?) where it was proven that in some cases lightning can actually jump from the ground up! Wild!
posted at 8:05 AM
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