My Walk in Stop Motion

In Victoria we still have stricter Stay At Home conditions than other Australian states. However we have always been able to go outside and exercise and Jells Park is very popular, too much so. Thus I enjoy walking along the tracks less traveled. This was largely flooded a few days ago, so definitely has less folk on it today.  Nature is doing very well without us, by the way.

The flock of Cockatoos was at the end of my street. I pretty well find great things to photograph everyday, even if I only take a photo very 10-20 meters or so. 

Most importantly it was fun to play with stop motion again, not so sure about bloggers handling of the video.

Experimenting with stop motion

I’ve been experimenting with stop motion, and decided to make a short video using things lying around the studio. I like an old webcam as a kind of simple head and a set of mini tripod legs to give “him” a sense of a body.

But how would a three legged being walk?

Here a couple of experiments in apparent walking

 

 

 

The Silent Drummer

This is a simple Time Lapse movie made using picasa from the 355 images I captured in burst mode, as I was creating my submission for this week the patch.

ThePatch :: Automobile AutoAwesome (that wasn’t quite)

Looking for a more creative direction for this weeks theme Marketing/Automobile on ThePatch I had to look no further than my grandson. He loves lego, the lego movie and everything is awesome, within seconds of suggesting we make a short movie he was designing and assembling a suitable awesome car from scratch and worked out a little sequence before I had my camera ready. We had fun shooting the circling Awesome-Mobile, although you can glimpse his enthusiastic hands in a couple of frames. To keep within the everything awesome theme I had planned to let google+ autoawesome create the *Motion gif for me.  Alas it only used a couple of the 25 photos we had created (see the google+ efforts below) so I went back to an on-line service called imgflip to create the GIF file (above left).
 
Since all of this was fun but probably not serious enough to enter on the patch so I have returned to a still photo of the wonderful little Awesome-Mobile itself but decided what the heck to go with the Gif (or is that Jif?)!
 

Experiments in Stop Motion with Strong Light & a Jug of Water

I had been looking for a different theme to trial another format of AutoAwesomes. My leaning was towards the *Motion format, which is actually a Stop Motion style .Gif files. The sun can out for a short time and left interesting retractions of light trough a jud of water on the bench, so I swirled the jug and grab my camera and took a "Burst Mode" Series in quick succession (above). I also experimented with pouring the water into a glass (below) between photos. Google+ AutoAwesome obligingly did the rest.

Part of my Week of AutoAwesomes

An Interesting Action Enhancement

An ongoing photo/art project of mine is Des Vagues, the waves, and I had taken a series of stop-motion like photos. On checking on what google+ had done in its auto awesomeness I found this kind of cute rendition of a breaking wave. I realise the photo junctions are a bit patchy but it does have life and a definite Japanese wood print feel.

Google+ action enhancements typically use a strobe like capture the movement of a person, placing them in progressive positions that map out the movement between photos. Here the wash and ripples of the breaking wave can be seen developing as the wave approaches the shore.

PhotoFriday :: The Body

For PhotoFriday‘s topic The Body

I originally just wanted to photograph something a little different for this topic and my camera body was perfect but then I had the “bad idea” of making a simple stop motion movie using my artist’s manikin. This gave me an opportunity to experiment a bit more in Corel’s VideoStudio, and its upload to YouTube is a pleasure to use.