Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Short Ride in a Fast Machine III

Here's another view of my commute. I wanted to see what my drive to work looks like sped up.

Every morning I get to wait in a line of cars that are mostly moms taking their kids to an elementary school and a middle school that are next door to each other. There are lots of cars and only one lane for most of the time. Traffic backs up. I like the cloud action when stopped. And the clouds swinging around as the road bends are fun, too.

Since I had the equipment set up, I recorded the return trip and made a movie of my round trip. The drive home had some more sitting and waiting after I got off the freeway. The evening commute didn't have as much light so the exposures were longer and have dramatic blurring (that's more visible in the stills). This probably makes the action look smoother. No clouds on the way home.

I took pictures at a rate of one per second and played them back at 15 frames per second.

2 comments:

MrBears said...

I'm so glad that bus got out of your way. Hey, was that Ray on the motorcycle? hahahahaha! Thanks, I really like these movies.

Shoe said...

Am I the only one who thought the bus backfired?

Very cool movie. Now I'm a little carsick.