These videos were shot on Christine Lake in NH with a Canon T2i and a Sigma 4.5mm fisheye lens and formatted as a dome master to be projected at 4k resolution.
This first video is a moving high dynamic range timelapse taken from a rangeley boat.
The second video was shot on a dock, looking at the cloud patterns. This sequence started out as over 3,000 individual exposure-bracketed images and took up over 10 gb of space on my computer.
Canon EOS Utility does not provide detailed control for stop-motion photography. I wrote a simple AppleScript that allows Canon’s EOS Utility (on the CD that came with the camera) to do three new, useful things.
Here are the features this AppleScript adds to EOS Utility:
I have been using this AppleScript with my Macbook Pro OSX 10.6.4 and Canon T2i/550D. The program should work with any tethered Canon camera that can be triggered by EOS Utility.
For non-technical people, I made the script into a small program. Download it here (http://drop.io/timelapseapp4840)
For more technology-oriented people who might want to change or add stuff, here is the Applescript:
These are two matching web sites that I built for my dad. The first site is Allan Shope Architect, a web page for my father’s architectural firm. The second site is Listening Rock Farm, a page dedicated to the Listening Rock organic farm and environmental education center that my parents own.
Allan Shope Architect (www.shopearchitect.com)
A rendered animation of my name in Cinema 4D. The breaking effect was created with the C4D Thrausi plugin.
A high dynamic range stop motion video looking out over San Francisco bay. Shot with a Canon T2i and a Sigma 4.5mm fisheye lens and formatted as a dome master to be projected in a planetarium.
This video is a render of a modeling, animation, and compositing exercise that I put together using my name.
This is a video demonstrating the look of hand-held high-dynamic-range moving shots with a DSLR that has been stabilized and filled around the edges with Photoshop Content-Aware Fill.
Published in the sex/humor column of the Colgate Maroon News
Ben Shope and Mat Nittmann
With this fabulous weather springing upon us like the Pope on his favorite deaf choir boy, it has been difficult to look around without getting a little aroused. Miniskirts are out and about, thongs are splitting buns left and right, and Adam and Eve have been getting jiggy on Taylor Lake all week long. Even the religious folk have reasons to be excited – Seder hangovers have finally passed and Jesus has risen from the grave like a lonely freshman’s boner.
Published in the sex/humor column of the Colgate Maroon News
Ben Shope and Mat Nittmann
Spring Party Weekend is finally here. This is the final exam after months of study. Drink a hearty breakfast, bring a pen to write on people and plan to forget everything once it is over. We can’t tell you the hook-up rules of Spring Party Weekend because there aren’t any. Instead, we suggest that you reflect upon those foggy memories of hookups passed. Remember the time you ferociously rounded second base on a fully loaded Cruiser? When you woke up at DU being spooned by the entire defensive line? Or when you nailed that visiting prospie like a dirty carpenter? Some say you went too far, but a true Rowdy Raider reveres these accomplishments.
Published in the Political Column of the Colgate Maroon News
You might not have noticed, but back in 2008, Barack Obama used the word “change” several times in his speeches. It was easy to believe that the landslide of Democrats to the House, Senate and Oval Office would bring about radical improvements in the way America governs its citizens. In the realm of civil liberties, Obama promised to reject the “false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.”