Winter Sun Video

Winter Sun was a very welcome photographic moment. I was driving through the countryside and had been photographing shelter belts against the dramatic blue sky. The good light suddenly started to fade as the sun ducked behind cloud cover. “I guess that’s it,” I said to myself as I walked back to my pickup. I started to drive home when, out of habit, I glanced up at the sky to see if there was a chance that the sun would reemerge soon. When I saw the perfect circle of the sun filtered through the winter clouds, I quickly pulled over and started shooting. The clouds were moving quickly, so I was lucky to capture a few good images of the sun filtering through.

Video: Back Roading After Supper

Back Roading After Supper by Kerry Enns Photography.

I’ve been learning some new video apps. Here’s my latest: video version of Back Roading After Supper.

Portage West Sunset

Portage Avenue Sunset

Portage West Sunset happened during some downtime during a working weekend. I’m a teacher and I do a lot of work for my provincial teachers’ society. The work requires time away from home for multi-day meetings when I stay at nearby Holiday Inn. When arranging my last stay I asked for a west-facing balcony room so that I could experiment with time lapse photography.

Here is my experiment. Portage West Sunset represents three hours of “real time”. I set the time laps to take one photograph every 10 seconds, a rate that worked out pretty well, although going to a 5 second interval would make for smoother transitions.

The contrast between the sky and the city below was significant at the beginning of the video. This meant that setting the exposure for the sky resulted in the city below being underexposed. As the sky darkens you can see the exposure equalizing until the street scene dominates. The transition from sky to street in Portage Avenue Sunset is neat, but I’d still like to open up the exposure a bit next time.

Portage Avenue Sunset is a learning experience, so I hop you don’t mind that I’ve shared it with you. If photography is anything, its a learning journey.