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Archive 2007 · LOL! Watch your backgrounds!

  
 
L_G_D
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p.1 #1 · LOL! Watch your backgrounds!


I was orignally going to post this in the landscape forum, but realized it probably fits better here.

Back in August I was taking some shots of Split Rock Falls in the Adirondacks and was bored with the usual spot that I and everyone else takes pictures from and decided to put in the effort to get across the river and climb down to the ledge between the upper & middle falls to get shots of the upper falls. I was happily snapping away changing shutter speeds and such to get different effects and not looking up from the display on the back of the camera. Once I did look up, I saw a bunch of guys standing there. When I reviewed the shots, I saw that they had arrived just after I set up and were in every frame as they marched in and stripped down to get ready to jump in. I was a bit miffed and packed up and left, almost trashing the shots, but packrat that I am, I saved them and later noticed I could make a funny animation with them. This is a GIF and should display and animate in any web browser, but it had to be down sampled to 256 colors. The uncompressed AVI is over 8MB.

http://home.earthlink.net/~lgdphotos/PICT4224-4234.gif




Nov 19, 2007 at 11:05 AM
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p.1 #2 · LOL! Watch your backgrounds!


Hmmm, alternatively, you could always take two or three of these, and mask out the men. You used a tripod and overall exposure generally is the same, so it should be quite simple.

The animation isn't quite my thing, but you did a nice job of it.

Cheers.
Jason



Nov 19, 2007 at 01:54 PM
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p.1 #3 · LOL! Watch your backgrounds!


I went back the next day and got more shots with no one in them, so these are just there to take up space on the hard drive.

I haven't done animations like this since some fractal stuff in the early 90's, it was mostly just to pass some time and see how it turned out.

LD



Nov 20, 2007 at 03:51 PM
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p.1 #4 · LOL! Watch your backgrounds!


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I like it. It gives me some ideas as the days get shorter.
Ned



Nov 20, 2007 at 04:40 PM
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p.1 #5 · LOL! Watch your backgrounds!


Thanks for sharing. I had a good laugh.

Jim



Nov 25, 2007 at 02:09 PM
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p.1 #6 · LOL! Watch your backgrounds!


Glad everyone liked it. This type of thing can be fun for a laugh. This was a lucky accident, if you plan ahead and do things right, you can make some interesting shots this way.

LD



Nov 26, 2007 at 02:34 PM
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p.1 #7 · LOL! Watch your backgrounds!


Fantastic idea. Good thing that you saved the shots


Nov 26, 2007 at 06:55 PM
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p.1 #8 · LOL! Watch your backgrounds!


Thank goodness they weren't skinny dipping!!!

This is precisely why I never delete anything! Cool!



Nov 27, 2007 at 11:20 AM





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