Now that you have seen the video's, are you wondering how they were made? No? thank stop reading, because that's the point of this post.
If you are wondering how I made these videos, here is the answer.
I went to the store and bought 2 pairs of cheap sunglasses ($6 combined), which had the added awesomeness of having Bumble Bee from Transformers on the lenses. Than I removed the lenses and stacked them, and taped them together. Next I taped the 4 lens stack over the lens of my Samsung Q-10 Camcorder. This would allow me to get images of the sun without damaging the lens, or having too much glare.
Next I ripped the back off a notebook and cut a hole in it, and taped it to the camcorder in a way that it would shade the camcorder from becoming too hot during the shooting.
Speaking of things that did not work out, the Samsung Q-10 has a GREAT time lapse feature that I used over the past summer to shoot video's of the Monument Fire near Sierra Vista, AZ. Unfortunately in time lapse mode you can not manually control the iris, which I had to do to get rid of glare. So I had to shoot it in real time and shrink it down in Sony Vegas. however due to extensive compression of the video the shorter versions have a fair amount of signal degradation. but such is life. And rendering the first compression took 29 hours! (I need a more powerful computer! or a Boxx RenderPro)
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So that's How We Do It.
--DME
