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November 26, 2013

Timelapse Great LA Walk

William Campbell's timelapse of this past Saturday's walk shot with a GoPro. You can bet I'm working on my own, too, but I guess I'm just slow. Mr. Campbell's video may be better than mine because he shot a photo every two seconds, while I shot one only every five seconds, reasoning that I wouldn't cover all that much ground in those few seconds. Also, he doesn't seem to turn and look at things (or he's edited out all those shots) so it's a more straight-ahead journey. Mine will include all my gawking as well as walking. His is from a chest mount while I wore my camera up on my head. This means I looked much nerdier all day than he did, but I think I got better views. Also, the one he has uploaded to Youtube seems to have had the bejeezus compressed out of it, resulting in some giant jpeg artifacts. I won't do that. But it will be a while before my jerky, uninteresting masterpiece is ready.

The chest mount, being a little more discreet, means few people come up and ask what the hell that thing is. I considered using my chest mount, but besides the better point of view up on my head, I have found that the head mount is less prone to blur because as one walks ones body prevents most of the shocks of walking from being transmitted up to ones head. A chest mount doesn't do that. It's more noticeable in videos than still shots. Here's one of mine from near the beginning of the walk when some ladies wondered about that thing on my hat.
[09-16-35] Echo Park

From William Campbell's Timelapse Video
Here's the 9:42 point in Mr. Campbell's video where he passes me. That's me on the left. I saw in his video that he was often walking with our Glorious Leader, Michael Schneider, and I remembered Michael Schneider catching up to me at this point, which really surprised me since I thought I was trailing behind. I did not notice Mr. Campbell's GoPro on his chest.

Filed under California,Cities/Urbanism,Photography | permalink | November 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM

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