I found Timbo’s tips on how to make a track from photos but it did not work straight out of the box for me.
The problem was two fold; first I needed to change ” to ‘ but also gpsdatetime tag did not exists but changing to DateTimeOriginal made it work:exiftool -r -if '$DateTimeOriginal' -fileOrder DateTimeOriginal -p ./gpx.fmt ./*.jpg > track.gpx
But it also required me to to modify the gpx.fmt file.
Last week we where hiking in the Swedish mountains and as usual I brought the camera and a GorillaPod. Earlier this summer I saw Sean Stiegemeiers amazing timelapse from Iceland and got interested in creating these kinds of videos. One of the evenings we had some really nice clouds coming in over us and passing some peaks closeby. I put up the camera and shot a number of sequences. Found out that I could generate timelapses directly from Lightroom(following Sean McCormack on Twitter) so started experimenting with it. I wanted to merge several of them into one video and the only video editing tool I have is iMovie or Windows Movie Maker. I decided to use iMovie since I have used it mostly lately. Here is the result.
Doing this and converting another video also shot earlier this summer I learned a number of things that I wanted to share.
Got inspired by this article on how to use a water drop to create a macro lens for the iPhone. So tested that today and here is the result:
Mixing in old photos or photos from another time can create interesting compositions, like this one from Flickr, found via A Time To Get
or this one from the Flickr group Looking into the Past
Other interesting combinations are; night/day, summer/winter, crowded/deserted etc. Have to try this sometime!
Tags: photography, inspiration
Just stumbled upon PikaPika which looks quite cool. Wondered a bit how they have done it and according to their website its just stop motion. Here is an Instructable on how to do it, so some wire seems to help a lot!
