Trigger Happy?

[jpvaz]

Well... i got a bit "trigger happy" with my camera... and decided to photograph (again... it's my 3rd time doing this) the demolition process of a building on a construction site that belongs to the company that i work for.

The result?!?

1) 2200 photos
2) one very very dirty camera + lens
3) one browsed knee (got hit by a rock)
4) $40 US out of my pocket since i ordered a protective rain cover for my machine (it should work ok and help me avoid number 2 all together...)
5) one interesting "movie" made from all of the photos

The demolition was made in 2 days, you can clearly see when it changes from day 1 to day 2. All photos were taken using my Canon 1D Mark ii on JPEG Hi and on sequential photo mode H (8.5fps) plus a Tamron 17-35 f2.8-4 lens @ 17mm always on a tripod and using a remote shutter release cable.

-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTHzBq1rX58

(sorry about the quality, but i had to reduce it to a minimum so that i could upload it to my youtube account).

C&C are always welcome.

Thanks.

[tumana]

Wow. Cool. Does the Canon 1D Mark II have a mode that automatically takes multiple photos (without you holding the shutter button)? I thought you needed the EOS Utility for that. My inexperience shows... ;) I also didn't know they chipped away at the walls to demolish a building.

Very cool.

[jpvaz]

Wow. Cool. Does the Canon 1D Mark II have a mode that automatically takes multiple photos (without you holding the shutter button)? I thought you needed the EOS Utility for that. My inexperience shows... ;) I also didn't know they chipped away at the walls to demolish a building.

Very cool.

Tkz :)

The machine doesn't have any specific mode, i probably explained myself in a bad way... i meant to say that i shot using the High-speed continuous set to high (8.5fps).
The way that you have to shot without pressing the shutter button on the camera is for you to use a remote shutter. You have wireless versions, simple wired versions and the Canon's TC-80N3 version witch is the most complete version of camera remote that you can get (in my opinion) but it cost's 1 arm + 1 leg...

Wireless version:

http://www.imaging-resource.com/NPICS1/CANON_LC-5_1_S.JPG

Wired version:


http://www.adorama.com/images/large/CARS80N3.jpg

Canon's TC-80N3

http://www.adorama.com/images/large/CATC80N3.jpg

[Flo]

I ordered a remote here about 6 months ago now.not a thing....I just wanted the 8 foot cord......even a hood didn't arrive! That took almost 2 months...and nothing.

[tumana]

The machine doesn't have any specific mode, i probably explained myself in a bad way... i meant to say that i shot using the High-speed continuous set to high (8.5fps).
The way that you have to shot without pressing the shutter button on the camera is for you to use a remote shutter.


Oooh. Gotcha.


it cost's 1 arm + 1 leg...


LOL! (I actually laughed out loud. Well, chuckled out loud. COL. :p)

[Mike-DT6]

Wow, excellent job! How much memory did that lot take up?

Mike

:-D

[ssidiv3r]

bet the sensor was smoking after all those. I really like the one of the guy and that backhoe pulling appart the wall :D looks like it might have just been easier to drill holes in the basement, stick some small charges of dinamite down them and *poof* you're done

[Mike-DT6]

Looks like it might have just been easier to drill holes in the basement, stick some small charges of dinamite down them and *poof* you're done

Or rent it to some students for six months! :lol:

[ssidiv3r]

yeah, and tell them to their only school materials are sledghammers :)

[Mike-DT6]

Ahh, sledgehammers. I love my sledgehammer :-D

[jpvaz]

Wow, excellent job! How much memory did that lot take up?

Mike

:-D

About 6.7Gb (average of 3Mb each photo).

Then downsized them to 720x480 pixels witch made a total of about 800Mb , made the montage on Adobe Premier witch ended up creating a about 1.6Gb file, encoded to MPEG single-pass at 720x480 witch made a movie of about 350Mb and then downsized it to post on Youtube, witch made a MPEG movie of about 7Mb.

So there you have the "why" about the quality, started with almost 7Gb ended up with 7Mb... ;)

[Mike-DT6]

Blimey! That's a lot of work. Did you have to keep swapping memory cards, or have you got some sort of mass storage set-up?

Mike

[jpvaz]

bet the sensor was smoking after all those. I really like the one of the guy and that backhoe pulling appart the wall :D looks like it might have just been easier to drill holes in the basement, stick some small charges of dinamite down them and *poof* you're done

I've asked my boss to do that... but he didn't went that way... :confused::confused:

Even on this one that i made about 1 year ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNpvrR-XWic

They attached a couple of heavy duty "stainless steel" cables (sorry, don't know the correct word in English for it) to the top floor's support beams and then pulled those cables with a caterpillar (sorry, don't know if this is the correct word as well...). When the cables snapped the support beams, the majority of the roof collapsed. Then using the same caterpillar machine they just pushed on the walls and made them collapse.

I also made this one, the machine used was a caterpillar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EV2Ayy9rqs

And this one, using a caterpillar but instead of having a bucket on the end, it had a heavy duty scissor like contraption...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvNbSh_ccHw

Photo:

http://www.pbase.com/jpvaz/image/77380270.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/jpvaz/image/77380281.jpg

[jpvaz]

Blimey! That's a lot of work. Did you have to keep swapping memory cards, or have you got some sort of mass storage set-up?

Mike


Just used 2 memory card's and didn't have to "swap them" in the normal use of those word's, i'm using a Sandisk 4G Extreme IV CF card as my main card and when that one was full, i just went to the camera's menu and switched to the secondary card on my 1D Mark II, witch is a Sandisk 4Gb Extreme III SD card.

[Mike-DT6]

That's good. I didn't know about the secondary card capabilities! :-D

Mike

[Adam Trevillian]

That's awesome. I've wanted to try something like for awhile. Good work.

How did you go about exposure?