Here's another street scene. This time we are watching the main intersection in Julian, California. I set the camera at the base of the flag pole at the Julian Town Hall and had it snap pictures every other second. The action is somewhat jerky. I should have had it take pictures every second. They're played at a rate of 15 frames per second.
It's kind of dull. People come and go. Nothing ever happens.
Well, you do get to see my shadow and the camera's shadow. And if you don't blink you get to see a horse pulling a carriage full of tourists and a little pony pulling a cute little carriage.
In case you blinked, here are some horsey pictures.
There were interesting people to watch, too. One woman thought that her pleather leggings were so stylish that they needed to be shown off in a rustic little town.
So much to do in Julian! Horse-drawn carriage rides! Shopping! Pleather! Pie! Update: Shoe wonders if the man in the blue shirt ever found who he's looking for. At :46 we see this (just in the shadow at the right)!
He and his wife(?) head off together toward the Julian Drug Store. Happy ending!
We have crystal tchotchkes in the living room window. When the sun hits them we have rainbows on the ceiling. This little video shows seven and a half hours of rainbows and reflections wandering around the living room.
I used my fisheye lens to capture as much of the room as I can. I should have aimed the camera lower so it would have included more of the floor in the foreground. There were rainbows and moving shadows down there that we don't get to see and there weren't a lot of rainbows on the ceiling that would have been lost.
I had the camera take a shot every 60 seconds. They're played back at 15 frames per second. An hour goes by every four seconds. The camera's sensitivity was ISO 200 and the shots were 1/50th second at f/11.
We have a clock on the right hand wall where you can watch the time fly by.
Here's a rather uninteresting one. My computer desk was a disaster. You must remember when we put it together in the first place.
Here you get to see me clear it, clean it, raise it a bit (my knees would slam into the frame) and put the stuff that belongs on it back. All in an hour. Sped up to all in a minute and 12 seconds.
What you're not getting to see is my dealing with the crap that didn't come back. It's still in a pile on the other side of the sofa. I'll get to that after I hit the "Publish Post" button. I hope.
I had the camera take pictures every four seconds and I play them back at 12 frames per second. We see a minute pass in just over one second.
Well, we have the technology...here's a picture of the crap that didn't go back. It's a lot of crap. (Not all in the picture is crap from the desk. The quilt on the sofa's arm wasn't on the computer desk and isn't crap. It's a priceless treasure!)
The west coast was treated to an eclipse of the moon this morning. When I went to bed last night there were a lot of clouds in the sky. I was afraid that the clouds would get denser and completely cover up the show. But I woke up at 4:00 and looked outside and there were a few clouds and the moon was casting nice shadows.
The show was on!
Being lazy, I just set the camera up to make a little movie of the eclipse in the back yard. We don't have a good view of the horizon so the moon was going to go behind trees before the moon was fully eclipsed, but that's OK. I didn't know what I'd end up with anyway. I needed to set the camera to take in a fairly wide view so the moon's image was going to be rather small. I was just hoping that this would record the dimming of the moon and the darkening of the sky.
And, with any luck, the dancing of the clouds.
There were clouds in the sky when I set things up but they mostly disappeared before the eclipse started. I was hoping the clouds would stay (but thin enough to always see the moon) so there would be more movement in the video.
I took some test shots and settled on five-second exposures at f/4.8 with the ISO set at 200. The focal length of the lens was 32mm. I took the pictures from 4:08 until 6:51. The frames are played at a rate of 24fps.
The moon is between the horns of Taurus. You can see the Hayades below the moon at the beginning. The sky gets a bit blacker as the eclipse progresses. Just before the moon goes behind the trees you can finally see that part of the moon is getting dimmed. Then it's dawn.
I'm pretty pleased with this one. I recommend watching it in HD and in full screen.
Here's an image from the movie just before the moon goes behind the trees.
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