Posts Tagged night
Night Nudes: Stairs
Posted by Ryan in On Location on June 16, 2010
“This is my pin-up shot,” she says. Not like one I’ve ever seen.
Night Nudes: Rubber Boots
Posted by Ryan in On Location on June 14, 2010
Ten points for the first person who can spot the CN Tower.
Night Nudes
Posted by Ryan in On Location on June 1, 2010
The funny thing about night time is that it doesn’t always look like night time. Especially when you combine rain, a low overcast sky, bright lights by the highway, and long exposures… it can look almost like day time!
I think this one needs to be seen big to be appreciated, so click below for a full-size version:
Ottawa By Night
Posted by Ryan in On Location, Time Lapse Videos on April 9, 2010
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As regular readers of the blog are aware, I’ve toyed around many times with time-lapse videos made with my DSLR cameras. This past weekend in Ottawa, I decided to be a bit more ambitious and make a video with a little variety instead of the static scenes I usually shoot.
The majority of this video was shot in about three hours on the grounds and surroundings of Parliament Hill. Over 4,000 frames garnered me about 90 seconds of footage, which I edited down to 1m25s including intro and outro titles, music, and a few seconds of regular non-time-lapse HD video.
The big swath of fire in the video is known as the Centennial Flame.
Everything was shot on a Nikon D300S with battery grip, set on a Manfrotto tripod. As good as the tripod is, the wind kicked up some fierce gusts that night, which resulted in some video jitter on the longer (200mm) shots.
After tweaking the photos in Lightroom and cropping to 16:9, I pulled each batch of JPEGs into QuickTime Player 7 Pro, which output my working movie files. I used iMovie to glue the whole mess together with movies and titles. I’d never used iMovie for anything more complicated than adding a soundtrack to existing video, but I found the whole process incredibly easy.
Now that I’m a lot more comfortable with the editing process, I have a strong inclination to make one of these vids featuring Toronto… We’ll see.
Music: “Yeah (Pretentious Version)” by LCD Soundsystem
One Year Ago Today: Randall
Posted by Ryan in Uncategorized on May 13, 2009
This is my fourth post about Randall, which means I pretty much worship her.
Last year on this day, a mild spring evening, Randall was kinda enough to drive out to my hood for a few photos. We headed down to the parking lot in the beach and waited until all the cars cleared out before we began shooting. There were a few hoots and hollers from lingering folks, but nothing she couldn’t handle. This shot was done with a Nikon SB-800 on a travel tripod to Randall’s right, triggered with the Nikon CLS system in my D200. In the left shot, I find the reflecting lights in the water a bit distracting, though I like the effect. In the right shot, Randall pulled open the jacket to reveal the pattern without any prompting from me. This is what makes her an awesome model.
I tried to work elements from my brand new car (then a week old) into the shots, including using the headlights to light Randall. Those experiments failed, but this interior shot was a happy accident that I loved. The only lighting was from the overhead dome light.
