Author Topic: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.  (Read 6921 times)

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Hi all,

Edouard, not to hijack your autumn thread I thought it would make sense to add a winter thread, too.

I would like to share a nice time-lapse with you, but I think it isn't possible to put it in here just like a picture, so I beg you to click on the following link:
http://wetter.unterwurzacher.at/zeitraffer/timelapse_nov9th.mp4
It will open in a new tab in your browser.

Enjoy!
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Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2016, 07:42:15 PM »
Very nice time-lapse Reinhard. Stunning look at the stars overnight.
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Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2016, 09:51:18 PM »
Well done indeed Reinhard!  I know how challenging it can be to pull off the night-dawn-daylight transition.

I do astrophotography, but only occasional timelapse or nightscape photography.  In fact my weather fascination results primarily from the need to know the weather conditions for doing visual or astrophotography.  I'm sure there are many WC users that have weatherstations to support the operations of their home or remote observatories.

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Thanks Reinhard! (Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017)
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2016, 10:56:41 PM »
Dear Reinhard, Blick, Carl, and WeatherCat admirers of lovely images,

Edouard, not to hijack your autumn thread I thought it would make sense to add a winter thread, too.

On the contrary let me thank you! 

The idea is for everybody to contribute and winter comes to your place much sooner than mine.

I would like to share a nice time-lapse with you, but I think it isn't possible to put it in here just like a picture, so I beg you to click on the following link:

Beautiful Reinhard!

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

P.S. I just looked up what SMF developers have to say about embedded videos.  Basically they won't support it because there isn't a standard protocol and every video upload site is different.   There are SMF extensions that Stu could install, but I don't know if there is enough interest to ask Stu to go through that hoop.

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Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2016, 11:40:46 PM »
Many small sites control the size of images (static or video [if those are even allowed]). Images take up gobs (sorry for the technical jargon) of web space on servers (particularly multi-megabyte, full-screen images! [rolleyes2] ). Many forums even request you link to images instead of posting them at their site. Stu seems to be able to pay for enough web space that he has not seen the need to ask for these kinds of things... so far. ThU5:-) That may be because he uses his own hardware. OTOH, we're not paying him, even for his coding work very often... As far as I know, the WC software is definitely not his main source of income! [computer]

There are so many free image upload sites! Personally, I like to upload images to those, so I don't use any space at a forum. The images will still show here, but they won't take any any room at all on Stu's hosting servers. :)
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Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2016, 06:56:08 AM »
Xair, Edouard, Blick, Carl,

I think that is what we all do - only a link to an image that then is embedded here in the forum. For me I use my own webspace to host the images (and even the videos) and with the *insert images* I can tell the forum from where it should load the picture to display it.

But I think you already know...   ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2016, 09:14:22 AM »
Hi Reinhard,
I am curious how such night timelapses can be made. In other words, please tell me how you did it. In looking for the gphoto2 stuff I remember coming across the making of timelapse videos.  One possibility I can think of would be to program my gphoto2 to save enough shots and then use them in iMovie to make a video. I am still very happy with my gphoto2 webcam setup and thankful for your help in getting it going.

Hope all is well with you, Irving

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Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2016, 09:50:23 AM »
Hi Irving,

as you assumed correct I tell gphoto to save every shot taken (every 5 minutes) under a different name, in my case date_time.jpg (looks like 20161101_0015.jpg), so I can easily find for example all pictures taken at a certain day (20161110_0002.jpg till 20161110_2358.jpg). Then I grab those pics manually, import them into iMovie and let it make the time lapse. A bit of work, indeed.

Hope this helps,
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Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2016, 03:59:35 AM »
Hi Folks,
Thought I would try to use my WC-saved webcam photos to make a daylong time-lapse video. About 160 photos from a recent cloudless winter day were used, dawn to dusk. WC saves every 10 min I believe, if you check the correct box. It was easy to drag them into iMovie and adjust the best durations, here 0.5s photo duration with the same for dissolved crossover transitions. The results can be seen on Youtube here

https://youtu.be/saJEnv8NuOg

Nothing spectacular here but the method works.
Next I want to try to get my gphoto2 controlled webcam system to save all the photos directly to my Mac. Now I have them saved every minute by replacing. 
Regards, Irving

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Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.
« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2016, 02:32:57 PM »
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WC saves every 10 min I believe, if you check the correct box.
WC Prefs->Webcam->Web-cam Enabled->Capture Options->Capture Image Every: (5 through 30 seconds, 1 through 30 minutes) Be aware that more frequent captures can drastically increase your bandwidth use, possibly causing FTP Overdrive problems.

It is sometimes amazing what one may find in an app's Prefs. The second, if not the first thing to examine at in every app (including after an update). ThU32:-) [rockon] [cheer] [computer] :)
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Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.
« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2016, 05:18:12 PM »
Nicely done, Irving.
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Can you believe this? (Re: Photographs of Winter 2016/2017)
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2016, 12:00:58 AM »
Dear Irving, X-Air, Blick, and WeatherCat shutterbugs,

Thanks for sharing your video attempts.  You certainly have the great view to experiment with.

In the meantime I have a picture that I swear (cross my heart) I took this morning:



If you check even the EXiF data backs me up.

Yes indeed those are tulip tree blooms showing up.  Normally they are early if they arrive before mid-February.

So if you feel a bit confused about the climate, at least you aren't alone - even the plants can't seem to get with the program!

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

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Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2017, 05:38:19 PM »
This is how I had to do snow removal yesterday. We have received 88 inches (2.24 metres) of snow so far this month, containing 3.52 inches (8.94 cm) of water. This is the highest monthly snowfall I have experienced here. Mother Nature is pretty impressive.
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Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2017, 09:59:17 PM »
Blick,

Please tell me that's your tractor and you are driving it! I want one! We don't get much snow, but I want one anyway!

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Re: Photographs/Videos of Winter 2016/2017 taken by the WeatherCat community.
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2017, 11:24:00 PM »
I wouldn't even want to pay for this to be done, much less the 100+ thousand dollars for the machine and another $40,000 for the front end loader! "Mother Nature" is trying to tell you something, if you need this kind of equipment! And it ain't "Welcome!" cmu:-)
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