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this is a tribute to the music documentry “it might geht loud”. check out the trailer here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony/itmightgetloud/
in terms of photography the last weeks were rather dull. bad weather, no sunlight – not the best parameters for interesting photographs.
alas, today the sun came out and i took the opportunity to take a couple of new pictures. 
here is one of todays shots:
it’s been a while since i shot my last time lapse clip and i am happy to finally present the candle clip that i intended to shoot for a very long time:
the clip consists of 3100 jpgs combined using virtualdub and exported as an xvid avi file. it runs at 36 frames per second with the pictures being taken each one second apart.
the equipment I used was:
the pictures were taken in jpg form to save space, then imported to lightroom, resized to 1280×853 and then exported. virtualdub was used to merge the jpg files into a video clip with the nine inch nails song “36 ghosts iv” as atmospheric background.
total working time (shooting and post processing): about 3 hours.
i might produce a full hd version of the clip later down the line and release it via bittorrent.
“turn off the sun, pull the stars from the sky.
the more I give to you, the more I die.” – the perfect drug, nine inch nails
there isn’t a better fitting title for that. i set off with my camera in hand a few minutes after midnight and didn’t know where to go first. somewhere i always end up when i am bored is in zeiselmauer right at the danube. almost no light pollution and a wide open area makes this a great spot for night time photography. once i was there it felt creepy. there were noises of animals everywhere, mosquitos bit me in the face but it was absolutely right. shots two and three were taken there, with one exposure of about one minute each. all in all i was there for about an hour, then packed up again and felt like pushing the envelope, so i went to tulln into the aubad because of the lake/sky setting. the outcome is a little different to what i had in mind, but i am still happy with the final result. if the sky is that bright again tonight, i will be out again.
fitting music helps, so i popped in the “the perfect drug” remix i downloaded earlier from remix.nin.com . one of the best remixes i have ever heard…
this is the question that i am usually getting asked when someone talks to me about photography.
and then i show them pictures like this:
usually they get pretty silent after that.
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my sister gave me a raven’s feather today which i used to produce this wallpaper:
“home is where your heart is”…
so weit wollte ich auch nicht gehen, sonst könnte man wohl überall ein bild machen.
in der umgebung meiner wohnung gibt es leider nichts, außer leere straßen und asphalt. eher eine trostlose angelegenheit.
letzte woche war ich ca. 100m vom haus meiner großeltern entfernt, in dem ich früher gewohnt habe. ich hoffe, ihr lasst das gelten.
zum bild:
wenn man zeiselmauer richtung donau verlässt und die nächste straße links einbiegt (feldweg) kommt man bei einigen feldern vorbei. blickt man in richtung donau sieht man dieses feld und diesen baum. ein bild wie dieses wollte ich schon sehr lange machen, endlich hat es geklappt.
die farben sind übertrieben? diesen look wollte ich erzielen. wenn euch die orginalbilder interessieren – eine anleitung zur entstehung des bildes findet ihr hier:
http://www.andreasmayer.at/blog/wp/?p=941
you probably know time lapse photography. those video clips that show blossoms bloom in rapid movement, buildings being erected by cranes in mere seconds.
well, what is a geek supposed to do?
