Photography
Photography Project Proposal
For my Photography Project, I was tinkering around with a couple of ideas. One of which was to experiment with long exposure pictures on interesting objects, such as moving lights (ie. vehicle lights, fireworks, moving the camera by hand with a stationary light). All of these create interesting effects, all worthy of a photography project.
So, I tried that. I also decided that I wanted to try and do it with a simple hand-held, point-and-shoot Canon camera. My reason for doing this is I didn’t want to haul around a massive tripod and a DSLR, and most everyone (including myself) has a handy little point-and-shoot. Also, I wanted to prove to myself, and others, that it is entirely possible to produce cool long exposure photographs with a cheap camera.
Ultimately, I decided not to use this idea for my final photography assignment, however, Lawrence, feel free to consider this as “Part A” of my Photography Assignment!
My final Photography Project is an HDR Panoramic Photograph (exported into a Quicktime Movie) of my backyard in the ‘burbs of my East Van hood. It’s quite spectacular—well, not really—but I feel it gives an interesting perspective of East Vancouver from a back yard in the middle of this massive city.
I will upload this final project tomorrow. But for now, enjoy these pictures of fireworks, and random lights taken with a hand-held point-and-shoot camera…
Cheers,
Brad
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For my photography project, I want to learn about enhancing depth of field by doing a study on it. At the end, I hope to create a short flipbook-like animation by photographing a person pretending to hide from the camera such that their hands are in focus and their face recedes to the background.
Today I did a test on controlling the focal point at home. I used the smallest F-stop in order to maximize depth of field. This is what I found out.
1. The camera has to be on a tripod if you are planning on varying the focus
These first three were taken with the camera in hand. The camera moved significantly while I was adjusting the focal ring.
2. There is a noticeable “zooming” effect as focal length increases
These three were taken with a tripod. The focal length varied from ~0.6 to 1.5m. As the focal length was stepped up, objects start to appear closer to the camera and farther objects becomes larger relative to the closer ones.
3. Size down images before putting them up online
Each jpg image of full resolution photos at 4256 x 2832px average around 7MB in size. Uploading on Flickr took longer than it takes to write up this post. Flickr sizes down your photos anyways.
Video/Photo Project Proposal
ANOTHER Change of Plans
Ok, so I went from an abstract piece to doing something as a time lapse, and now I’ve finally settled on upgrading a previous video I shot a couple years ago.
A couple years ago I was doing some cooking, and spontaneously dug out the camera and decided to do a cooking video. I shot it all, and plugged it into iMovie to give it a bit of a soundtrack, and to shorten it.
So far its had thousands of hits, but judging from the comments, people like the recipe but not the video.
What I would like to do is create a professional video where I have one static camera on a tripod directed towards the cooking area, another handheld camera where someone is following what I’m doing, a wireless mic so my hands are free, and the built in camera tracks for ambient sound.
I think I might need some brighter lighting for my kitchen area. What would you suggest for a basic lighting setup?
Photography
My photo project consists of taking street stamp photos in HDR and compiling them into a grid-like piece of art with some typography integrated, should be fun!
The Making of Lynncanyon.ca
To be a part of the Interactive Design Program at Capilano University is an incredible experience. The opportunities to expand your knowledge are endless. For the first time in ages I felt that “The World is My Oyster” and the program helped me to indulge in it. The program offered a self directed study and I took full advantage of it to broaden my knowledge and understanding of the Interactive Media industry.
With a background in photography I wanted to try something that was in the same field, but web oriented. I thought that trying out 360 degree panoramic photography was a good choice to increase my knowledge in the photographic as well as the web industry. I did some research of some amazing panoramic photos and virtual tours of hotels, cathedrals, and car interiors. I kept thinking of how to jump further outside the box so I took a different approach and picked a subject that I knew quite well. An exterior (outdoor) virtual tour.
Lynn Canyon Park was my chosen subject to photograph and the end goal was to have a virtual tour of the park live on a website. I sought out the best possible website URL and lynncanyon.ca seemed to fit quite well. It just the beginning of Fall and the weather was still great so I decided to start taking photos right away. I rode my mountain bike into the park a few mornings each week equipped with a tripod, panoramic head, and a Nikon D80 DSLR camera. I loaded up with memory cards as I would be taking a large quantity of photos each day and a spare battery as well.
3 weeks and 20 hours of shooting later I had a good set of images to work with. For each 360 degree scene I set up the tripod, checked the lighting for consistency in each direction and did a rotation of 18 photographs with the panoramic tripod head. Once the scene was complete, I would hike further into the park and take another 18 shots. Each day of shooting I photographed approximately 5 scenes. At the end of the 3 weeks I had photographed over 50 scenes (9,000 Photos).
Taking the photos was half the battle, and the fun part. I spent the next month stitching each scene together with Pro Software called PTGUI. This software was highly recommended on several forums so I gave it a shot. It worked wonders for what I wanted to accomplish. The next step was to take each stitched scene and put it into a virtual tour that linked each scene together. An open source application called PanoSalado that was currently in development appeared to be the best option. It runs on flash which appeared to be more promising than QuickTime VR. More web users have flash installed, at least thats what all the stats said.
The application took a lot of time to work with and a good knowledge of PHP and Actionscript is recommended to deal with it. I found several discussions online to set up my first 360 pano and the software developers were quite helpful with any questions I sent to them.
3 months and approximately 60 hours of production time, lynncanyon.ca was online. Today the website recieves visitors from all over the world and is increasing in hits everyday.
Visit Lynn Canyon and join the Lynn Canyon Facebook Fanpage!
Lynncanyon.ca was created by Jaden Nyberg – View Portfolio
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