The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Out in the country.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography

Hi there, I hope you’ve all had a good weekend and are ready for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which this week is based around the prompt; Out in the country.

I’ve had a fairly creative couple of days (the result of which can be seen on Return Of The Internet Nobody) and in the process of making the audio visual treats you’ll find over there, I had an idea…

Having shot a long video of a drive in the country (with the camera in a windscreen-mounted holder, safety fans), I realised I could use the frame capture feature to produce photos for today’s challenge.

These were edited for artistic effect, partly because some of them were a little blurred, but they came out surprisingly well.

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Just because I could, I shot a timelapse video of the return journey, shrinking the 20 minute drive down to 35 seconds. This worked fine, but it was very fast and I decided to slow it down with one of my video editing apps, which I noticed had a new “smooth slo-mo” button and I do love a gadget, so…well, of course I tried it.

Now, the feature is supposed to reduce or remove the jerky effect you sometimes get when slowing video right down, by artificially transitioning the frames more smoothly from one to the next.

But the poor old software doesn’t know I’ve given it a timelapse video to smooth out, with maybe a hundred yards traveled in between each individual photo, so it tries as hard as it possibly can to streeeeeeeetchh each frame and join them up.

The resulting warping, concertina effect immediately brought to mind a “boing” noise, so I quickly added an appropriate soundtrack and voila!

What did you capture in the countryside this week?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

22 thoughts on “The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Out in the country.”

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  15. So funny…. I had opened a draft thinking I’d post photos for this challenge but had to leave and couldn’t finish..It just had the link on it. When I came home, I decided to post my usual written blog…not to any prompt..Then I tried to find the one I’d opened for your prompt and decided it had been erased. It wasn’t until I got your comment thanking me for participating that I realized I had posted the written blog on the page with your link! I guess it does in a way fit the theme “Out in the Country” but I wouldn’t have entered an essay in a photo prompt if I’d realized what I was doing! Thanks for being welcoming in spite of my snafu.

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