Project 2: From the roof of the car
I was driving to take some pictures and I had this crazy idea to put the tripod through the moon-roof of my car and take some pics. I had seen this idea on dpchallenge a while ago, and decided to attempt it for myself. I drove out the Hayden Lake road, and stopped at the dike. I then had my brother hold the tripod as it stuck out the roof. I had the remote dangling down. I set the exposure (which ended up being the demise of many pictures because the lighting changed so much. After I started moving, I realized that I couldn’t go much above 15 mph, which got really annoying to the people who were unfortunate enough to get behind me. But it ended up being just a short distance before I could turn out and take it down. The strap, which I forgot to take off, ended up flapping around and eventually pulling the remote cord out, so I couldn’t take anymore pictures.
The first image turned out great in my mind, compared to the second one. The second one had terrible trouble with lens flare and I tried correcting it, but to no avail. So I just posted it as an example of one that didn’t turn out. I really wasn’t shooting (no pun intended) to have it look like my inspiration photo, but rather to create an image showing the road. But none the less, I would like to attempt again some other time to create one like the image on DPC
I used my Canon 50D and an EF-S 18-55 (that I stole from my brother). Although not the greatest lens, it was nice because it is the widest we own. Below is the exposure info:
- Shutter: 1/10th
- Aperture: f/22.0
- Focal Length: 18mm
- ISO: 100
When transferred to the computer, I realized that a lot of them weren’t exposed properly. I really should have used an auto exposure setting to have avoided this.
Below are a few images shot during the setup. As you can see, it was exposed correctly here.
I’ll probably post an image of the setup here in a second… I just don’t have it on hand at the moment.
This is the contact sheet of the images
[FLOWPLAYER=http://sturgesphotography.com/wp-content/videos/stopmotiondriving.flv,384,576]
Location of these photos
October 7th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Scott- YOu really stepped it up this week. Nice job on pushing to try something new. Including the stop motion video as well- very nice. I already talked to you in class about these images so I won’t add too much more here.
Question for you- did you shoot any horizontal? Just curious. Nice job this week.
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October 8th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I wasn’t able to as the lens wasn’t wide enough to see down the road, so I just shot all of them vertically. I NEED A SHARP WIDE LENS!
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