Hey all,

I stitched together a basic prototype of the timelapse from just 10 photos, it's attached as a gif.

The toolchain is a bit rusty and required some manual finagling on my end, will be working to improve this. Hugin should be sufficient to normalize across focal lengths and exposures, then produce desirable projections, but I'm still very green to the tool and wasn't able to produce as smooth an output as I was hoping. I was able to compile the gif with gimp, but the alignment that I set in Hugin didn't carry over so I had to do some translation myself. Both have command line interfaces, so I think this process can be semi-automated or at least made more speedy in the future. Will also look into other tools like imagemagick.

// Matt

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:51 PM, mattsenate@gmail.com <mattsenate@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey all,

There was a link sent to the Nerds for Nature email list about using community photographs to collect data for natural spaces, parks, etc. You set up a single station with a guide for your camera, let folks take photographs with any device, gather them up, then use a photo stitcher to put together a timelapse.

I think this is an excellent way to document moments at sudo negotiated by the consent of individuals and through human action, rather than a webcam and automated constant stream.

Please leave the pedestal in its current position, there is tape on the floor so you can replace it if necessary.

Thanks!

// Matt