Since the Menalto Gallery project seems to have shut down some time back in 2014, I have switched to… Piwigo. The bulk import went well enough, though this does mean that links in old posts here are going to be horribly broken.
Link rot. It happens to the best of us, and also me.
Check out the new gallery (full of the same old pictures), won’t you?
I’m changing it up a bit this year. Mind you, I’m not actually asking people to shop for me for holiday-type presents. There’s nothing I need all that badly, and almost everything on the lists linked below could best be described as “frivolous.” And yet, since people have asked, here we go:
Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Again: I’m providing this by way of a reply to various folks who’ve inquired along these lines, but I’m not expecting, insisting, or suggesting that anyone do any holiday shopping in my general direction.
Thank you, and happy holidays to you all.
You know those time lapse things I’ve been doing? Here’s something a bit more along the lines of what I’m really hoping to do with the technology. (Well, that and a lot more cloud shows. Because seriously. Clouds!)
Let’s be clear: I am not a skilled model assembler by any stretch of the imagination. (The less said about that chest sticker, the better.) But “doing things on camera” like this amuses me, so expect more of it as I find more things to do along these lines…
I walked out the door this morning, backpack on my shoulder and trash bag in hand. As I reached the bottom of the stairs I looked to the East to see what kind of sunrise we were getting.
Well.
Yeah, that wasn’t too shabby. Then I turned toward the dumpsters and looked up to see… This.
No, but seriously.
I tell you what: Hillsboro Oregon gives fantastic sky, sometimes.
I bought a new tablet. I installed Lapse It Pro onto the tablet, and this afternoon the clouds were rather pretty and scudding across the blue sky quite nicely and… this happened:
Not bad, eh? Now, for this video I basically just propped the tablet up on top of one of the living room bookshelves, opened the window, started the recording and walked away for an hour or so.
And walked back, and walked away, and walked back, and finally decided I should go play a game or something for a while because otherwise I was going to be tempted to tinker with things while the recording progressed. Ahem.
I’m hoping to do more like this, but I’m mostly looking (once the tripod mount arrives) at doing some time lapse “build” videos, such as for assembling one of the very small Gundam models whose boxes have been collecting dust for a couple years now. (A devoted modeler I am not, apparently.)
Why not use the Pentax? Because I don’t want to assemble these videos from a pile of raw images by hand, that’s why. The additional expense of shutter timer equipment is also a factor.
So here we are. A guy needs a hobby, right? It’s not so much about the Gundam model as it is about what kind of video I can make out of the process of building the model…
