Underwater

While it's been pretty quiet over here, my daily photo project has been progressing rather nicely. Using film cameras means that I take photos in lumps, so I'm countering that by using a digital point-and-shoot and posting one photo from it every day since it came out of the box. I upload my favourites from each day to a gallery, and the project continues until it reaches 5000 photos. I'm currently at 833 after 81 days.

Most days I take only a few photos, maybe five or ten. Today was more like fifty.

In addition to playing with my waterproof camera in a shallow fountain, I also brought out my Sony PCM-D50 audio recorder. I've mixed four different tracks together to create a 45 second sound clip with software that I'd never used before, which was far less frustrating than trying to create a slideshow with iMovie, then Final Cut Express, and finally iPhoto. The video results are unsubtle, but bearable enough for an afternoon's work.

(There is a time delay on the 5kp site, so today's photo won't appear until June 24.)

(1004) Dinosaurs on White

In what could be a massive technical failure, I'm posting my first-ever video.
(If you have quicktime installed, it doesn't work, and it's not Sunday, let me know in the comments.)

While future projects might include motion, my approach so far has been to accompany a collection of still images with a soundtrack that I've created from relevant environmental sounds. I'm not a strict literalist here - see a dog, hear a bark - but the audio and images are recorded in tandem and do relate to each other in some way. In this case, it was a visit to the Royal Ontario Museum with my camera club yesterday morning.

Running time is 59 seconds.

A 1280x720 video, along with another work-in-progress, can be found on my page at Vimeo.