[Project] Hospice Photo Essay - Published
July 23rd, 2008 S. T. McDoleThe Hospice photo essay I did was published earlier today over at GANT Daily. Check it out.
The Hospice photo essay I did was published earlier today over at GANT Daily. Check it out.
Greetings. Just dropping a line so it isn’t assumed that I have died.
Hopefully I will soon have some results from playing around after learning about star trail photography. It is regretful I don’t have the disposable income to follow the instructions properly. My digital camera only allows for 30 seconds of open shutter, not quite long enough according to the guides I have read. Namely in the hour range. My Canon AE-1 has the ability, but the problem of developing film.
So for the time being I will experiment with different errors warned about when shooting star trails. Perhaps the results can be useful in certain situations. Maybe some of them will yield possible entries for the Clearfield County Fair this year.
It looks like this year I will be entering the entering the Professional category. In either case last year was the final year I could enter the Senior V group due to age. The rules are simple, 2 photos per class:
*Color (Non-digital)
*Black and White (Non digital)
*Anything Digital.
Added to the list of things I have been experimenting with is photo videos. I had used Windows Media Maker, but its tendency to crash under certain circumstances* have prompted me to look for a different video editing software that would be hopefully free and easy to use.
The results of my experimentation is the following video. The first is a glitched version due to compression errors. The second is a more finalized version. The song in the background is “Still Alive” written by Jonathan Coulton for Portal, sung by Ellen McLain as GLaDOS within the game. The song was chosen at random, i.e. my playlist that was running while working on this happened to be on it when I began toying with audio.
My first attempt involved Virtual Dub. A tool that seems nice, but looks too hard to sync the audio to the photos for the quick turn around I wish to shoot for. Currently I am giving Jahshaka a try. Not quite a pick up and begin using with no problems program, but I think I am getting the hang of it enough to use. I have Gordian Knot downloaded, but it scares me.
Both of these videos were made through Virtual Dub, but I have learned to to achieve similar results with Jarshaka with less work.