Thought I’d try something new with my camera. Might not be new to other serious photographers, but its new to me as I only used it once before during Winterlude 2010. I’m talking about using burst mode in an active location with your camera, then animating it into an animated .gif. I hope you find it to your liking. Oh, and since I added 13 gifs you may experience an internet slow down, or browser lag, depending on your computer set up. I apologize for that.
I also had Saber and Optimistic Penguin‘s blog mascot join me on the experiment as well.
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(All images and gifs taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake lens and edited in Jasc Animation studio.)
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Animated Ottawa – Gifs
I tried to give one image some “life” in them. Don’t know which you guys/gals may prefer better but I tried to try something different. I take lots of images and only a few videos so I thought animated them wouldn’t hurt. It takes me 2 hours to convert and 2 hours to upload onto Youtube while it takes me up to an hour to animate them. Not the same, but you do get to see movement. You gain some and you lose some.
Also, between my Lumix GF1 and my Sony W170 – Sony wins in terms of Burst mode with 100 per burst. Compare that to around 7-10 for the GF1.
– Centennial Flame in front of the Parliament.
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– Canadian Flag – second test shot.
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– Parliament building with flapping Canadian flag on top.
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– Speed boats – third test shot for burst mode.
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– Wellington, next to Chateau Laurier. I pinched off the ending where a lady ended up looking at my camera.
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– Rideau Canal Locks with flapping Canadian flag. Traffic in the background.
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– American Embassy for my American viewers. Burst mode hiccuped causing the bus to get cut off.
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– Art Museum, flapping Canadian flags, traffic, and Basilica.
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– View the traffic on the bridge. Sorry, but you’re going to have to squint.
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– Alexandra Bridge – Water current and cars.
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– Ottawa traffic infront of War Memorial.
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I tried for an Ottawa Panorama but it appears it ended up distorted on it’s second try. Here is the very wide panorama of Ottawa. I may come back and fix this panorama.
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Optimistic Penguin Insert:
Just a mini-section for Optimistic Penguin. Shes a fellow figure blogger in New Zealand. She is quite helpful and extremely friendly with any individual. Thanks for many photoshoot ideas, half of which I never put into articles.
-> Optimistic Penguin’s blog site: http://www.optimisticpenguin.com/
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Ya, you’re Canadian now OP heh. I still can’t find an Arctic Fox plushie or key chain to theme up with my blog site.
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Saber tried to run after the penguin but ended losing her waist, literally.
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She’s turning out to be a fragile figure. Her hair band came lose, her right leg keeps coming off, and now her uh…waist came loose.
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Hope you enjoyed viewing one of my many blogging style experiment – Pictures, animated images, and embedded videos. It didn’t seem that fluid and may just stick to images and videos. Let me know what you think and I may continue doing burst mode animated images. If you like it I may return with more polished up animated Ottawas in another Ottawa themed article in the near future. Until then, have fun and be creative!