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Daffodil Decay - Animated GIF

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Over a couple of weeks I took two images each day of the daffodils, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. I then put the images together in Photoshop and made them into a GIF. First I layered the individual images on top of each other with the first one on the bottom layer and then stacked the images all the way up to the last image on the top. I then resized the images to a lower resolution, otherwise Photoshop wouldn't be able to animate it as a GIF. Then all I needed to do was go to "File" then "Save for web"  Next I just selected GIF as the presets section, ticked the "Animate" box and it was ready to click "ok" and save.

High Speed Imagery - Harold Eugene Edgerton (aka "Papa Flash")

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Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton also known as "Papa Flash" was a professor of electrical engineering at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Edgerton is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope  to a common device from an obscure laboratory instrument. Along with the stroboscope, he also was largely involved with the development of sonar and deep sea photography, were his equipment was used for searches of shipwrecks. Edgerton experimented with his equipment by capturing different things from the different stages of a balloon bursting to a bullet impacting an apple. His images of the bursting ballons are taken so fast that you can see the bullet, even though bullets travel at hundreds of feet per second its been captured with such a fast shutter that the bullet looks completely still as if it is floating just after the balloons. Edgerton's Images of a bullet impacting an apple show the moisture inside the apple exploding out of the entry an

Motion Time-lapse

This is my first experimentation of a motion time-lapse where I tried to capture more of the movement of the cars going down a duel carriage way. The way I tried to add more movement to the video was to take each image with a long exposure to add the lines that are generated with the headlights and taillights of the vehicles going along the road.

Photographer - Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge started professional photography from sometime between 1861 and 1866 after he had recovered from a serious accident where he was bodily ejected out of a stagecoach and hit his head. Muybridge then made his way back to the states in 1867 where he became successful with his new talent due to his highly proficient technical skills and an artist's eye. His main focuses where on landscape and architectural photography. Muybridge had even converted a lightweight carriage into his own portable darkroom to be able to carry out his work more efficiently. Muybridge established his reputation with photos of the Yosemite Valley wilderness and areas around San Francisco. In 1872 Leland Stanford (The former governor of California and race-horse owner) hired Muybridge for some photographic studies on horses. The studies was to find out if all four hooves of a horse were of the ground while trotting. Muybridge began experimenting with 12 cameras set up in an array

Pinhole Photographer - Justin Quinnell

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Justin Quinnell is a pinhole photographer who started of getting a degree in fine-art photography and made his way to teaching pinhole photography. He made the transfer from camera to can when he was teaching kids photography, but as they didnt have enough money to buy a camera, but enough to buy cans of coke, Quinnell came up with the idea to teach them with cans converted to pinhole photography. He first taught them how to make their very own pinhole camera and then how to set up, with the best angles and then how to scan the image that they had created from the light sensitive paper used inside the can. On Clifton Suspension Bridge (3 month exposure)  One of  Quinnell's most popular images is the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England, where he took a 6 month pinhole exposure from a dark winter night to a warm summer day not expecting the can to have survived, yet not only had it survived it ended up producing a stunning image from a simple can and time. Quin