February is a slow month for me. To get out and shoot, I decided to offer benefit sessions…families choose a non-profit they love, donate their session fee to that organization, and I click away. A generous percentage of the portrait order will be donated to a non-profit organization of my choice. This session benefited St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
The thing with portrait sessions in the winter in Denver is trying to avoid the dead grass and empty flowerbeds. That was easy to do by choosing to work at Denver Art Museum, constructed of grey titanium siding: all grey all the time! The weather was warm, the kids were happy, and the location was perfect. Instead of posting a few of my favorites, I decided to post ALL the photos I created…all 1300 of them over the course of an hour and fifteen minutes. Don’t worry, this slideshow moves fast, I fit all those images into about 3 minutes. Be sure to play full screen.
About the movie.
I had a hard time finding the best way to create this…imovie doesn’t let you do short durations for each image, and some of the stop-motion software out there for mac is made more with animation in mind and wouldn’t (or wasn’t easy to figure out how) to have different durations for some of the images. I ended up using good old Final Cut Express. Too about 10 minutes of work once I figured it all out. Music is by Rodrigo y Gabriela.
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