{"id":944,"date":"2013-08-11T13:55:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T18:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2013\/08\/11\/130811-hibiscustimelapse\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T14:30:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T19:30:32","slug":"130811-hibiscustimelapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/08\/11\/130811-hibiscustimelapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Porch of Horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had one of those rare mornings with not a breath of wind, and I noticed an unopened bloom on the hibiscus on our back porch. I decided this was a great opportunity to create a time lapse using the <a href=\"http:\/\/gopro.com\/hd-hero3-cameras\">GoPro Hero 3 camera<\/a> so I grabbed the tripod and camera and set things up.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t activate the wifi, in an attempt to conserve battery life, so I couldn&#8217;t monitor the pictures via my phone; I had to sort of aim the camera in the general direction of the flower, counting on the ultra-wide lens to catch the action (however slowly it might move). I set the timer to one frame per minute and headed back inside.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t count on was how pitiful the camera&#8217;s battery life is even without wifi. It shut down after about two hours. I later realized that I could have waited another twenty minutes to begin the process and probably ended up with the flower in full bloom, but, as they say, it is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>With a little work in Photoshop (I chose 15 photos along the timeline, then duplicated and reversed the sequence), the following living, breathing hibiscus just popped out. It&#8217;s sort of freaky, really. (If you have a slow internet connection, be patient&#8230;this is a 1.5 mb gif image).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/hibiscusblooming.gif\" alt=\"Time lapse of blooming hibiscus\"><\/p>\n<p><i>By the way, <a href=\"http:\/\/primelapse.com\/\">Primelapse.com<\/a> seems to be an excellent resource if you&#8217;re interested in timelapse photography.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had one of those rare mornings with not a breath of wind, and I noticed an unopened bloom on the hibiscus on our back porch. I decided this was a great opportunity to create a time lapse using the GoPro Hero 3 camera so I grabbed the tripod and camera and set things up.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/08\/11\/130811-hibiscustimelapse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Little Porch of Horrors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9488,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/9488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}