Gone to See America. January 2013 Florida Road Trip. Day 7: Merritt Island.
Osprey with Sushi for Breakfast. Image taken with a Nikon D800 camera and 500 mm f/4 VR lens (ISO 100, 500 mm, f/5.6, 1/640 sec).
Six-Years Ago (09-January-2013) — Florida
Month: January 2019
Eight-Years Ago (09-January-2011) — Chile
Gone to See Patagonia 2010/2011. Photography Workshop with Thom Hogan. Day 14: Torres del Paine National Park, Hosteria Lago Grey, Chile.
Rob walking a high wire in some pretty strong Patagonia winds at a construction site near Hosteria Lago Grey. Images taken with a Nikon D3s camera and 28-120 mm lens (ISO 200, various, f/4, various).
Three-Years Ago (08-January-2016) — Pacific Ocean
Gone to See the World. Semester at Sea Spring 2016 Voyage on the MV World Odyssey. Day 4: Crossing the Pacific Ocean.
The rocking and rolling of the ship makes it difficult to make time-lapse videos of sunrise and sunset. Even with relatively light seas, the ship is constantly moving up, down, right, and left. I didn’t have access to a heavy-duty gyro stabilized camera mount. The first time-lapse video shows the impact of the motion with the horizon going up, down, and tilting. Nearly 600 images were taken every 3 seconds with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 35 mm f/1.4 lens (ISO 200 to 800, 35 mm, f/16, 1/250 sec) and then processed with Capture One Pro and the time-lapse video created with Photoshop CC.
On a previous voyage, Michael Mariant suggested that we use “warp stabilizer” software to correct for motion (reduce and smooth) when making time-lapse videos when using hand-held cameras. At that time a warp stabilization filter was included in Adobe After Effects. Now the filter is included within Adobe Premiere Pro. The above time-lapse video was reprocessed using the warp stabilization filter. It significantly reduces the motion of the horizon due to the ship’s motion.
I’ve also included a slide show of individual images (one per minute) of the sunset that were individually processed. Not viable for all 600+ images.
Individual images from the slide-show can be viewed here.
Eight-Years Ago (08-January-2011) — Chile
Gone to See Patagonia 2010/2011. Photography Workshop with Thom Hogan. Day 13: Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
Sometimes you are lucky. A few days earlier Thom was teaching us how to photograph a rider on a moving horse. On this day, while waiting to be allowed to enter Torres del Paine National Park we were doing some landscape shots. All of a sudden two Guanacos started chasing and spitting at each other. I caught this one just as it ran right through our group.
Monday (07-January-2019) — New Jersey
Backyard Wintertime Nature in New Jersey.
Although it was cold this morning when I woke up, I noticed some colorful clouds developing just before sunrise. I went out with a Fuji X-T2 camera and a 8-16 mm f/2.8 wide-angle lens. I took a number of shots to create this dawn panorama.
