Bike Errands / Bike Video

I found a cool mini clamp and ball head rig that is just right for attaching my Olympus Stylus camera to my bike handlebars. I did a test today and it worked great, taking a video of most of my trip to and from an errand this morning. I edited it down from 20 minutes. I’m glad that because it is far enough ahead of me you can’t hear me breathing, just road noise and wind from the bike moving.

Here it is:

This is a test of the bike mount I got for my Olympus Stylus camera. I edited it down from about 20 minutes. I was heading out to get some scissors sharpened.

Software Project Timelapse / Slides / Music

It has been overcast here so mostly taking pictures of the clouds illuminated by the light pollution… In any case I switched to a 28mm prime wide angle lens that is F 2.8 and that has improved a number of things including making the focus easier and getting a wider aperture. I tweaked the music script and also created additional sections in the music so the sound track is better. The ISO was 1600 and the exposure was 10 seconds, I think I can double the ISO so I’m going to just adjust that for the next experiment.

In any case here is the latest WiP:

Software Project Timelapse / Slides / Music

Well here is the first effort that produced images:

It is a bit overexposed due there being a lot of ambient light, this was 28 mm, F 2.8, 20 second exposure, ISO 3200. The focus isn’t good either so I’m going to work on that too. I’m thinking for the next attempt I will try cutting the exposure time and the ISO in half. And I’ll spend some more time in the setup phase on getting the focus right, just have to get used to working with the camera in the dark.

Software Project Timelapse / Slides / Music ...

I’ve been experimenting with controlling my Canon 6D using Linux and using it to capture sequences of photographs in a Timelapse. A while ago I wrote a script to stitch images together into a video slideshow and also generate an improvised soundtrack to play along with them. You can see a version of this project here: ( https://github.com/jpfxgood/slides-sound ). I’m using that script to make the images into a video with a soundtrack.

The camera control software comes from the gphoto2 package ( thank you Linux) and some helpful instructions here: https://www.moreno.marzolla.name/software/linux-time-lapse/

Here’s a sample of the output so far:

I’m working on improvements to the generated music and I’m going to try some night sky time lapse video… more to come… ( also I need to update my github project… )