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As an IT Contractor I get handed quite a lot of interesting projects, but incorporating photography, this has to be one of my favourite.
The brief is to create a timelapse of a boat build to use for marketing.
I've spent today putting together a demo using a Raspberry Pi and my 650D;
The idea is that the RPI utilises gPhoto2 (with a script to ensure it restarts if it crashes) to take pictures every 10 seconds for a couple of hours (this will be every 15 minutes for the year).
As a simple network failure failsafe, I use BTSync to sync photos to a server where the server moves any files from the BTSync folder to another location every five minutes (which also deletes the files from the RPi). This way, if the network drops for an amount of time, they photos will simply be stored on the RPi until the network is restored, at which point they automatically sync up again.
My test rig for today:
And the results after a few hours....
I should have shot the photos in a size more suitable for 16:9, something I will look in to for next time.
Next job is to grab a spare camera, an AC adapter and build an enclosure before performing a longer test leading up to the start of the build.
The brief is to create a timelapse of a boat build to use for marketing.
I've spent today putting together a demo using a Raspberry Pi and my 650D;
The idea is that the RPI utilises gPhoto2 (with a script to ensure it restarts if it crashes) to take pictures every 10 seconds for a couple of hours (this will be every 15 minutes for the year).
As a simple network failure failsafe, I use BTSync to sync photos to a server where the server moves any files from the BTSync folder to another location every five minutes (which also deletes the files from the RPi). This way, if the network drops for an amount of time, they photos will simply be stored on the RPi until the network is restored, at which point they automatically sync up again.
My test rig for today:
And the results after a few hours....
I should have shot the photos in a size more suitable for 16:9, something I will look in to for next time.
Next job is to grab a spare camera, an AC adapter and build an enclosure before performing a longer test leading up to the start of the build.
