Not much to say here, this is the final result of my latest attempt. Took about 20 days or so. I've still got the camera in place, and I'm going to leave it shooting until that bloom falls off.
Partial results are in! They more or less suck.. ; )
I initially set this system up and had it shoot in our living room, on a wobbley tv tray with no flash. (I figured my wife wouldn't be happy about a clamped down monstrosity and a flash going off in the dark every 30 minutes.. turns out, she's fine with it!)
So, anyway.. that's the first draft. I edited out about 80% of the frames that were just a black square..
The next one (with flash) should be much better. Though it'll be toward the end of this bugger blooming. There will be many more of these.. this is just a trial run.
I've been building this thing for quite some time. For the last 2 nights or so, I spent some time finishing up version 1. It is now functional. (and has taken 23 or so pictures of my desk plant in the last couple hours)
When I get the pics parsed into some useable video, I'll post it here. Today is pretty much a proof of concept day, then I'm going to find a way to position it, and light a plant such that I can get pics of Celeste's blooming Christmas cactus.
