"stuart noble" wrote in message
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On 23/12/2010 13:02, Bill Grey wrote:
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For those amongst you who are now wistfully casting your minds back to
the
heady days of summer when your soil was workable (and visible), here is
a
time-lapse of the growing season on our allotment.

It begins on 5th May, and ends on 17th Nov. I took a picture on every
visit
to the plot, attempting to align the view the same each time, with
varying
degrees of success. I tried to take the pics as close to midday as
possible
because of the shadows, but again this was not always possible. Also the
sun
was sometimes rather brighter than I would have preferred. I tried to
take
the pic when the sun went in on days when there was some cloud cover,
but
some days there was unbroken sunshine. I know that seems difficult to
envisage right now. And I tried to keep the watering cans etc from
popping
in and out of view. Again with varying success.

I hope you enjoy it. Questions, suggestions, ideas and constructive
criticism all welcome. Next year I plan to do one of the whole year.
Watch
this space.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7rJLTGYMk


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Steve

Very interesting and a novel way to record you allotment

Well done

Bill



I suppose a precisely located tripod would make the end result easier on
the eye. Says he who has been meaning to do something similar for years
but never had the patience :-)

I've seen this done in boat building, where a luxury yacht is being built
for example. The secret is to make a shelf or bracket with blocks of wood or
angles, so the camera ALWAYS fits into the same place. By doing it this way,
two or three different positions in and outside the building can be set up
and they are always spot on.

Also saw the result of the same sort of progress on a Classic Car rebuild.

Mike


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