My First Tilt-Shift
I was inspired by Sam O’Hare’s videos to try my hand at tilt-shift. I made a few attempts and am surprisingly happy with this result. I couldn’t get my camera to take multiple exposures in sequence,...
View ArticleMy Lunar Eclipse Video
My plan was to rent a camera and a tracking telescope to record tonight’s lunar eclipse. Three days ago, the weather report showed nothing but clouds for all of California so I canceled the telescope...
View ArticlePlanes Landing at SFO
I’ve wanted to record planes landing at a major airport for a while and finally took the opportunity after renting a camera from BorrowLenses.com. I headed to San Francisco International Airport...
View ArticleExperiments in Tilt-Shift
I mentioned a couple of months ago that I’d started playing around with tilt-shift videos. Here’s a collection of some of those videos. It was shot over the course of a few hours without a tripod....
View ArticleMy Gizmodo Contest Entry
On January 18, I mentioned in a post that the technology site Gizmodo was hosting their first ever video contest until Feb. 9 and the theme was time-lapse. I decided to make this video of Sutro Tower...
View ArticleWalking Time-Lapse
I posted a video by Luke Shepard a few months ago featuring Paris at night. I’ve finally gotten around to posting a response to that video. This video was made with my old PowerShot so the quality...
View ArticleThe Biggest Solar Eruption Ever Recorded
I compiled this video from publicly available NASA photos. This is similar to the webcam time-lapses I’ve made before, except much easier. I tried to pump up the excitement by using classical music...
View ArticleMy Lunar Eclipse Video – December 2011
I shot this video from San Francisco on Saturday morning. This is the last total lunar eclipse until 2014. The moon started going dark around 4:30am and stayed in the Earth’s shadow until just before...
View ArticleHoliday Lights in San Francisco
I began taking these photos a couple of weeks before Christmas but just finished the video this weekend. The workload finally became too much for my laptop so I had to upgrade to a new computer. An...
View ArticleHow to Make Macro Time-Lapse Videos
The video above shows my first experiment with macro time-lapse. I’ve used affiliate links where practical because they allow me to fully share my techniques for free. The $42 Solution I’ve done some...
View Article“SFO at Night” Behind-the-Scenes
The Video “SFO at Night” is a time-lapse video I released in November 2013 of San Francisco International Airport. I can offer the basic info (20+ hours of photography, 150+ GB of RAW files, and nine...
View ArticleChalkboard Art Time-Lapse (BTS)
I’d like to share a short behind-the-scenes look at a video I made recently. This was a fun piece where I was able to try out some new ideas and techniques. There’s nothing ground-breaking about this...
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