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Price of a view

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:03:52 +0000

Seems like living in a big city like Hong Kong comes with a price. Many Hong Kong people have spent their whole life working only for such a tiny living den. However, after their death, they still face the previous situation (Price of a view from Lego Ho on Vimeo.)

Time-lapse stabilization test

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:30:03 +0000

It was a very cold winter 5 am in the morning (you can’t really see the snowflakes, but they were there), after I drove some friends to the airport I decided to stop by and take a short time-lapse. Only problem, the wind was too random for being able to protect the camera with an improvised umbrella (made from the car’s shade) AND move the tripod in the same time.

The good thing is I shot RAW, and I could recover some of the color, if these were JPEGs everything would have been ruined.

Workflow:
- Import everything in Lightroom, apply the same white balance correction to all the images and export everything as tiffs
- import the tiffs in After Effects as an Image Sequence and do some stabilization (using Warp Stabilizer) – then export all the frames as tiffs.
- import everything in Lightroom again, export as JPEGs and follow the LRTimelapse / Lightroom workflow

I think I’m messing up somewhere because there is too much import/export, I will need to find a format that is supported by all 3 (AE, LRT and LT) and maybe not that heavy on file size.

Notes to self:
- custom white balance next time
- 10-15 second between the shots, 5 seconds should be enough to move the tripod but it’s better to be on the safe side (I believe having some wheels on the tripod would make things 3X faster)
- smaller steps are preferable (20 cm are enough though).
- need to plan the moving direction AND count the steps before shooting – maybe draw a chalk line on the ground
- avoid shooting during freezing winter/rainy days

Into the mind

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:53:45 +0000

I’m waiting for fall 2013…

American Dream

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:10:36 +0000

American Dream from Ian Ruhter : Alchemist on Vimeo.

Moscow timelapse

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:45:11 +0000

Москва'2011(Moscow/Russia) from zweizwei |motion timelapse| on Vimeo.

I am a big fan of time-lapse movies and this one is a real masterpiece. Inspiring enough to make me try myself :)

F64 se muta în casă nouă

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:35:51 +0000

F64 împlinește 10 ani, ocazie cu care în 11 Octombrie își deschid un nou magazin. Ținând cont că va fi cel mai mare magazin foto din sud-estul Europei (dupa propriile lor spuse) de-abia aștept primul drum la București să casc ochii câteva ore pe acolo. Până atunci, am căscat ochii la filmulețul viral (bravo Alex!), care poate fi vizualizat mai jos, după cum urmează:

Gulp – animatie stop-motion filmată cu un telefon mobil Nokia n8

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:07:57 +0000

Ce se poate face cu un telefon mobil și fooooarte multă muncă:

Gulp. The world’s largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.

Cu cortul la Cumpăna

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:36:27 +0000

Lui Rick îi era dor de o ieșire cu cortul, eu aveam creierii varză și Ralu vroia la aer curat. La Cumpăna nu mai fusesem de vreo 3 ani și cred că încă 3 ani nu mai calc pe acolo. Maneliști beți jucând un spectacol grotesc, din cauza căruia nu am putut să dorm toată noaptea și pe care – deși au trecut 3 luni de la ieșirea cu pricina – încă nu pot să mi-l scot din minte.

Și data trecută și acum am făcut câteva poze. Mi se pare foarte mare discrepanța dintre vizual și sonor: îmi aduc aminte perfect cât de mult mă deranja zgomotul dar toate pozele mele duc la ideea de calm… În fine, sper să rămân cu imaginile, nu cu sunetele.