Bonus Post
This is a test post from phone. I am in the boonies taking a course to be certified to operate small commercial vessels. This gif was produced in-camera and is the view in front of the “classroom”.
I hope this works and that the ripples are soothing.
Samsung Galaxy S4
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At first I thought it was a cinemagraph. It looks ok but there are two areas where the water is not moving where I think it should. What app did you use?
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Hi Ben. It is the standard sodtware that comes with the camera. It is like a cinemagraph. You make an exposure for several second (many exposures) and then you are prompted to rub the screen where you want movement and once done given options for durection of movement (in this case back and forth). This is the first one I ever did but tried others less successful for instance of peoples hands shucking oysters. On that one the whole body moved not just what I rubbed on screen rubbing with a finger tip is not too precise hance bits of static water which I am trying to think of as frozen. Fun to play with but I need an android app that allows more control of exposure. Recommendations gladly accepted.
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I dont know of any apps that do this on a phone, it sounds like an interesting experiment. I hope some one creates an app with a better wsy of removeing areas.
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It is fun, and you have seen that I tried another few. It does not work well when the whole scene is moving – it tends to animate all of it rather than just the bit rubbed. But, in the right setting it works really well.
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Was at my local beach this morning. The conditions were very calm as here. I was listening to traditional Chinese opera on my iPod. Good soundtrack for soothing ripples!
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Hi Katherine, how nice to hear from you!! That is a good idea for a sound track. Soothing is needed. My brain is flooded with the nuances of navigational aids, what shape and colour combinations mean. Not soothing.
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Wow!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hey, Ephem – nice post. Looks like we in Puget Sound aren’t the only ones having decent weather for once. Is this also Quadra Is.? It looks like the North end of the Gulf…
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Hi Sam. This is Quadra Island, looking east over Heriot Bay to the Coast Ranges.
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Yes, what fun! Your coast doesn’t look a thing like mine, which has no hills anywhere in sight. I love how the clouds in your photo seem to turn into the mountains.
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Thanks Linda. Those clouds are nearly permanent residents over the mountains.
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It works and it’s rather fun. Curious steppy waves, and they appear to change direction every so often. Your coast looks rather like ours, but with bigger hills in the background.
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Thanks Patrick. As I noted in a reply to the accidental duplicate of this post, the camera in the phone has a setting for the animation to go back and forth. Those are the coastal mountains of mainland BC which rise in many places to around 8,000 feet, and then every now and then at big volcanoes to over 14,000 feet.
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