Use an intervalometer to detect footprints

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While Alex was in town for the weekend, we used my camera's intervalometer to record tracks in the reveals the footprints as light areas in a sea of dark.

There was some tripod shift between other photo pairs, and I'm still working on aligning the photos. Already I'm still playing with the images, but I've got a pretty sweet sample uploaded to BoF Labs.

I set up the camera on a tripod and told it to take 1 image per minute for 7 minutes. The first image is useless because the tripod slowly settles over the course of the first image is useless because the tripod slowly settles over the course of the first minute. Between each pair of photos we made tracks in my gravel driveway. I'm still working on aligning the photos. Already I'm still playing with the images, but I've got a pretty sweet sample uploaded to BoF Labs.

I set up the camera on a tripod and told it to take 1 image per minute for 7 minutes. The first minute. Between each pair of photos we made tracks in my gravel driveway. I'm still playing with the images, but I've got a pretty sweet sample uploaded to BoF Labs.

I set up the camera on a tripod and told it to take 1 image per minute for 7 minutes. The first minute. Between each pair of photos we made t

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