iPhone timelapse video.
Posted by michael vermaak | Filed under Apple, Photography, iPhone
I have just downloaded a fantastic app for my iPhone called iTimeLapse (iTunes link). Had to give it a try and had a good opportunity today when I had to change some gobo’s on our Martin Mac 250 Krypton moving heads. Anyway the app works very well indeed with lots of resolution choices, framerate, capture time, the lit goes on. They even give you a selection of free music to add to you video! I have to say the app works well on my 3G so should work well on the 3GS.
gobo change over from Michael Vermaak on Vimeo.
Tags: iPhone, iTunes, Photography, timelapse, video
Vienna Trip
Posted by michael vermaak | Filed under Work
Work is busy at the moment and we have a mad April happening, lots of shows all over Europe. Me and my colleague started the drive down to Vienna from the UK via our stop over point of Frankfurt. If you’re ever near Frankfurt Airport their is a great Chinese restaurant in a small retail park just off of the mini round about which does an delicious all you can eat buffet for about €14. They also have a great Teppanyaki section which I love! The week went really well the client was very happy and so were we which is all good news. As usual although the hotel food was nice it was expensive, so we decided to try out some of Vienna’s restaurants. The Austrians like there meat and being Vegetarian I thought it could be difficult to get a decent selection of food here but I was wrong. We found an amazing Taiwanese place called Vegetasia. They specialise in making mock meat food from soy and vegetables. one of the stranger things I had was sweet and sour prawns, which although weren’t made from prawn looked and had the same consistency as prawns! It did take a little getting used to as my brain was telling me that I shouldn’t be eating shellfish but I knew it wasn’t. Aside from the psychological war going on my head over these fake prawns the whole meal was stunning. It was some of the nicest tasting Asian food I had had for a while and just wish someone who had the money and time could bring it over to the UK so I could eat it more often. Here are a few quick snaps from my iPhone over the last week I’m now just waiting for my plane which will take me to Rome for another show and hopefully some more nice food!
Tags: iPhone, Photography, restaurant, Vienna, Work
New Kidrobot figure
Posted by Michael Vermaak | Filed under Photography
When I was in South Africa we visited the Victoria and Albert Waterfront. There I found a stall inside the shopping mall which sold Kidrobot figures. As I have a Tokyo Plastic Geisha Drummer I decided that I would start a collection from that point forward as seeing them in the flesh for the first time got me hooked! I decided to get a Fatcap doll.
Once again as with the picture of the TP doll I put the camera on a tripod set the camera to manual and started to take some test shots. I find having the room almost completely dark and using my iPhone with a torch app works best. For this Photo I had to go with a 20 second exposure making sure I lit the Fatcap from every angle without getting the phone in the shot. Also if you do this you’ll have to set your focus to manual as you have to get the light really close to make sure it’s in focus. When I start the shot I don’t have any light on the subject and if it was set to auto focus the camera would not see anything and not take the shot. I also have my camera plugged into my laptop and take the shots using canons EOS utility as this way I don’t touch the camera and cause blur plus I can preview the shots straight away on my laptop screen.
If you go the V&A check out the stall from Toitoy. As I said above, it’s nice to see the figures in the flesh and checking them out next to each other as well.
Tags: 400D, Canon, Kidrobot, Photography
Holiday to South Africa
Posted by Michael Vermaak | Filed under Family, Photography
We have been back a few days now from spending 2 weeks in South Africa. We based ourselves just outside of Hermanus in a little town called Vermont. Most of the time was spend either sitting relaxing in and around the house or in the car heading out to see some animals or to have some food or drink. Nothing over the top Just a bit of a chill out.
So here are a few shots from our time down there. Hope you enjoy.
Tags: 400D, Canon, Family, Photography, South Africa
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