TIME LAPSE ABERTAWE

My newest / old film. A time lapse of Swansea, which I started in February 2011 and countiniued working on until late April. In May some university projects came up, so this project was put on hold. But today I did the finishing touches and uploaded it.

I wanted to experiment and learn more about time lapse. The raw material is composed of 2330 still pictures, shot on my Canon EOS 400D, which then is imported into After Effects as jpg-sequences. In AE I adjusted the size of the pictures and also some brightness/exposure correction on shots with changing lighting (f. ex. inside Quadrant)



I'm not 100% happy with it, cause there is some shakes, over-exposed parts etc. BUT I learned very much from this project. I learned about what different frame rates does, where I used the wrong settings etc. When taking pictures of people I discovered after that it would have been wiser to have shutter speed set to between 1/15 and 1" and have short intervals. This is to avoid them showing as "blips" on screen. So I hope to deliver an even better product next time. Thanks again to Swansea City Council, Quadrant Shopping Centre, O'Briens Sandwish Bar and First.

As Timothy Allen, an amazing BBC photographer (still & moving), said about time lapse:
"Experience will be your best teacher here and as you practise you will discover what works best for you."




If you didn't know it, Timothy Allen is one of the photographers behind BBC's amazing Human Planet. Which has some of the best shots I've seen in documentaries ever. Real absolute beauty. He is one my favorite photographers in the world.

I miss Swansea now, after looking at that all day. Gonna be good to get back in September, moving in to the new house, my own room and most of all, back to my daily routine :D

Today's song: Hoobastank - The Reason

NEW WEBSITE (BETA)

I've started working on my new website today. Still not completely done, but I'm getting there.

Here, take a look at the BETA version:

Right now it's on a online editor domain. Most of the site is flash coded. I bought my own domain several months ago, tomdaniel.eu , which had a old version of my site (now empty) just haven't connected them yet.

Still missing some bits and pieces here and there:
- Some links
- Getting the blog (my career blog) which is connected with an iframe-code, to behave...
- Sort out contact page
- Add a description on one of the photo albums
- And of course connect with my domain, but hardly takes any time

Today's song: Beyoncé - Best thing I never had

THE ULTIMATE PLAYLIST

Have you enjoyed the music I put on my blog? Today's music? Weekly playlist? Well look no further than this. I've put all of the lovely music into one ultimate playlist (a few songs aren't on Spotify)

164 tracks = 10 hours of mixed pure pleasure

The Ultimate playlist - Blog 2011

Everything from Bryan Adams - Summer of 69 to David Guetta - Little Bad Girl. Like it? Subscribe to it!

And of course its got today's lovely tune in it! :D And for all of those of you that are cool enough to live in Wales or are coming to visit, they're coming to Cardiff 26/10/11 Millennium music hall - Facebook event

Today's song: Puddle of Mudd - Blurry

220711 (MY NEW FILM)

22nd of July 2011 two of the most tragic terror attacks happened in Norway.

Left: Anders Behring Breivik Right: Oslo
Source: VG.no

Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb in the heart of the capitol Oslo, taking out several government buildings, amongst others Prime Minister’s Office and Department of Justice (where one of my family members work, she's okay). This paralyzed the people in the capitol. What no one knew or imagined was that another tragic event was yet to come. Anders drove to a place called Utøya, an island about 1.5 hours from the capitol. Here the ruling party (Labour/Arbeiderpartiet) held its annual summer camp for kids. Anders was dressed as a police officer and said to the kids that he had information and was there to protect him. When the kids had gotten close, he started shooting them. There were 650 children on that island; at least 69 never came home. The youngest kids on the island were 5 years old. The kids threw themselves into the water and started swimming for their lives, a swim which was at least 1000m. Kids hid in the forest, behind cliffs and under beds. With no mercy, Anders Behring Breivik walked around shooting kids in the head. The massacre lasted for 1 hour.

Rescue people and volunteers did an amazing job; civilians threw themselves into their boats and drove out to pick up kids from the cold water. But that is no comfort for the parents, families and friends that lost their beloved.

All over the country people arranged light ceremonies and in the capitol, with several hundreds of thousand participation, a rose parade was set up. Here is my pictures:


I also attended the unofficial light ceremony in Drammen (city close to me). You can view my pictures here.

When in Oslo and Drammen I also filmed a lot, to make up a memorial-documentary-film. My goal was to only have moving pictures and music, timing the edits and content to the music. I met up with fellow student Thea and close friend Marianne in Oslo and we helped each other to get even better photos.

Norwegian version:



English version:



I would love get your feedback please! Both on the film and pictures.

Today is two "today's song". The first one, Closer the edge was the first song I turned on when I sat down after work the 22nd of July 2011. Really listen to the lyrics! Like I posted on Facebook (above)

The other song Mitt lille land is an iconic song in Norway, that's been played everywhere throughout this tragedy. To me it symbolizes Norway and also hope.

Today's song: 30 seconds to Mars - Closer to the edge


Today's song: Maria Mena - Mitt lille land