Stephen Skory

Quicktime movie, 3.70mb, 3m 11s playing time
1917 frames, 7h 39m, ~13s between frames
1s playing time ~ +2min real time
from SERF, 4th floor, looking west
March 20, 2007
Recommended: Large Version, 1000×260, 25mb

Perhaps it’s the nature of pouring concrete, or union jobs, but the middle of this time lapse is pretty boring. Sorry about that. The beginning is fun enough; and the end, with the inch-worm workers and the vacuum-like concrete massager, is cool, too.

Please note the right 1/3 of the image is slightly affected by the reflection of the building façade on the window. Let me repeat, the large version is worth downloading.

Roll your mouse over the whitespace above and click it on it. Your challenge is to figure out what the image is as quickly as possible. I’ll wait…

Some of you may remember my photo mosaics I played around with a while back. This is exactly that, but this time, I took a screen shot every 20 seconds or so as the program refined the image.

This mosaic is made up of a bunch of ‘glyphs’ which are a colored square with a colored letter/symbol in the middle. The colors and symbol are randomly chosen. The movie above compresses about 8 hours of real time into under two minutes. In that 8 hours the program tried over 330,000 glyphs for the 2500 tiles on the image. The interesting thing is the basic shapes in the image resolved themselves quickly, while the colors took much longer, and never really matched the original image.

Here is a link to a composite photo, showing the original photo and the final mosaiced photo. I don’t think the mosiac really captures my tongue accurately.

Quicktime movie, 3.72mb, 1m 40s playing time
1000 frames, 3h 40m, ~13s between frames
my neighbors deck, looking north
February 22, 2007

This time lapse was shot before, during, and after the passing of a rain front. See if you can tell when the rain starts. The most interesting thing to follow are, of course, the clouds, which change direction & speed. The clouds really get moving on the backside of the front.

I hope you like the new, inline quicktime movie presentation.

Quicktime Movie, 7.44mb, 3m 1s playing time
Larger Version (worth the wait!), 42.83mb, 1000×655 pixels
1087 frames, 3h 36m, ~12s between frames
music: Comfort Eagle, by Cake
SERF building roof looking west
February 1, 2007

I would have liked this time lapse to cover more time, but the internal camera battery died because I didn’t fully charge it. I did have my external battery plugged in, but the camera cannot run off that alone. Also, since these images are very complex, even JPEG compression cannot reduce their size too much, and I nearly filled my 1gb card. For example, my previous time lapse project, Airport Sunset, I took over 600 more photos than this time. The difference is those frames had nearly half devoted to the sky.

Quicktime Movie, 9.80mb, 4m 47s playing time
1723 frames, 1h 44m, ~3.2s between frames
Laurel and Union streets facing nearly west
January 15, 2007

The external battery pack and ‘intervalometer’ are connected to the camera. I was hoping to capture the Comet McNaught but I should have read that linked article first, as it has become too close to the sun now. Next time I have a freeway in a time lapse I’ll situate it longitudinally so apparent motion is clearer.