L3 Photography UAL Stephen F

This gif consists of two images that are different that one another due to the slight change in positioning as one is more to the right that the other, resulting in a slight 3D effect. The two images are just on a loop from one to the other. This was achieved with a low amount of effort as all I needed to do was to move slightly to the right or left more and take another image, then stitch them together in photoshop and save as an animated gif. 

With these two images I experimented with capturing my dog running through water at a beach. Sadly the sun was going down and the lighting wasn't perfect but they still came out interestingly. To improve with this type of photography I would shoot at an earlier time where there is more light as well as using a faster shutter speed to capture the water slashing better.   This second image I like how I managed to capture my dog still even though I didn't capture the water still, which also shows the different speed of how fast my dog is moving compared to the water which is moving faster. The way I captured my dog mid-run also is similar to Eadweard Muybridge and how he captured a horses running style with high speed photography.

I had previously created a time lapse of this location but it to me wasn't good enough due to a couple reasons, one being that it wasn't that long of a video, I wanted it to be a little bit longer. The other reason was that during shooting the the time lapse i had moved the camera while it was taking the images by accident, this resulted in the framing being different so in around the middle of it the shot jumps to a slightly different shot, which I was not happy with. So I resulted to re-shooting the images to create a new time lapse and this is what the end piece was. To create this time-lapse I used a sturdy tripod were I made sure that the legs and positioning of the camera was all locked into place after I had lined the shot that I wanted up with the camera. I used an Intervalometer or timer remote controller that simply plugs into your camera, I set the settings to end up taking a shot every 6 seconds after each exposure had completed as each shot was exposed for 4 ...

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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.

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...