A few months ago I posted a cool little video that showed some really cool timelapse photography by a really cool guy named Dan Eckert. I thought maybe people would thing I was really cool too if I could make a really cool video like Dan Eckert. It would make me even cooler if I talked a little bit about how I made this video rather that just show it. This way if anyone else wants to be cool like I have officially just become, feel free to shamelessly mimic me shamelessly mimicking someone else. Here is the video, be sure to make it full-screen.



You like that stuff right there? I hope so. Leave a comment if you did. If you didn’t like it, uhh, just quietly grumble and move along, thank you.

If you’d like to find out exactly how to make this kind of video there is a great tutorial over on AdoramaTV by my buddy Mark Wallace . If you are only mildly curious how this was made, it is pretty simple. You take a bunch of photos of the same thing over a long period of time, then you play them all back really fast.

Okee-dokee. If you have been following previous posts here your homework is due now. You should know whether or not your camera can handle the heavy lifting required for HDR photography, you should have a tripod and most definitely, you oughta be about ready to quit reading my rants about this and get started. Perfect.  Only one little problem. In order to do any kind of fancy-schmancy HDR processing you have to have some images to work with.  So that is just what we are going to do:  go make some images.

Its probably going to take a few days for me to get things going on my end, round up my entourage and all that, but in the very near future we are going to go out on the town. This is your formal invitation to join me on your maiden voyage into HDR photography, your vision quest, walkabout, coming of age party, or whatever you want to call it.

All you have to do now is figure out where you want to go and when.

Here are your choices for where, we will figure out the when part soon.

• Mesa Art Center / Downtown Mesa
• Downtown Phoenix
• ASU Tempe Campus
• ASU Polytechnic Campus
• Old Town Scottsdale
• The airplane museum at Falcon Field Airport
• Somewhere else, you pick

I could have added a poll here to make it easier for you, but I’m going to make you work harder than that. Yes, you have to post a comment below. You will need to click on the ‘Read more’ link at the bottom to see the comments section.

Another thing, this is an equal opportunity event. If you have never taken a picture in your life you will be just fine. If you’ve been shooting for 20 years and just want to come hang out, that is awesome too. Everyone is welcome, just BYOC – bring your own camera.

Click on the image to see what this turns into.