{"id":849,"date":"2010-05-17T22:51:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T22:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/?p=849"},"modified":"2017-02-07T23:16:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T23:16:43","slug":"great-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Great Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Attempt #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the poppies in my front yard began to bloom I got the idea of doing a time-lapse image of one of them doing so. \u00a0In my mind it was a gorgeous, subtle transformation and explosion of color.<\/p>\n

So I spent about an hour setting up lights and background, calibrating the camera and programming an intervalometer to shoot one photo every five seconds. \u00a0After about 10 hours of filming I had this<\/a> (the one on the white background)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Waiting...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Not to be daunted, I tried again. \u00a0Since the garden needed some serious weeding, it seemed like a good day for it. \u00a0The camera could click happily away while I attacked the raspberries, which are my most problematic invasive species.<\/p>\n

The most likely candidate poppy was located and braced so that it didn’t flop around too much; the camera batteries were charged; a strobe was placed next to the flowers to light them (so that the sunshine didn’t throw off the exposure too much) and I let the setup run until the rain started, several hours later.<\/p>\n

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Attempt #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, with much fanfare, here’s attempt #2!<\/p>\n

Sigh. \u00a0Guess this gets filed under the categories of watched pots never boiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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