The first video I decided to include was really a spur of the moment decision. Throughout the day I had been taking a lot of videos of trees and cars and people in the distance, and some of them turned out well, but then I thought to try a video of just one tree as the object. The result was beautiful to me, and stood out from the others because without the ability to adjust or move the camera, it was much clearer what the object of my video was now, and the focus was much more narrow and understandable; the one tree within a row of trees is losing its flowers due to the wind. As a longer video, I could see this as a captivating time-lapse of the tree’s cycle from blooming to losing all of its flowers. It’s sort of depressing and beautiful at the same time, because on one hand the tree loses its beauty as the flowers fall, but in the process of falling, they create an arguably more beautiful and interesting effect that is quite contemplative to watch.
The other, which I nearly missed out on, and I’m glad that I didn’t, is from the Japanese Pond at the Botanical Gardens. I was attempting to get as many fish in the video as I possibly could, but it’s quite difficult given how much they move and how much I could not move the camera. As with the last video, I think a longer video could have a greater effect, because it would give more fish a chance to swim through the scope of my camera and generate a little more variation. Watching coy fish, or any fish for that matter swim is a proven method of stress relief and can act as a catalyst in the meditative process. I find it incredibly soothing to watch these guys slowly drift and turn and come up for food, and their coloring is simply beautiful. If I’m being self-critical about this video though, I’d say that I was trying too hard to find the most fish and the most action I could, instead of letting it happen naturally, but for the sake of a video that’s only 30 seconds long, I think that’s perfectly fine.
Some other videos I took that I thought were interesting included pedestrian traffic at Brooklyn Bridge Park in the morning, and the ships sailing through the East River while we sat on the granite steps. I think as an overall picture of Brooklyn, these are probably more applicable, whereas the ones I’ve chosen to link only occur within the Botanical Gardens. However, I wanted to post videos of something we don’t experience on a daily basis, and the Botanical Gardens also had more to offer as time passed through a single stationary shot.
The other, which I nearly missed out on, and I’m glad that I didn’t, is from the Japanese Pond at the Botanical Gardens. I was attempting to get as many fish in the video as I possibly could, but it’s quite difficult given how much they move and how much I could not move the camera. As with the last video, I think a longer video could have a greater effect, because it would give more fish a chance to swim through the scope of my camera and generate a little more variation. Watching coy fish, or any fish for that matter swim is a proven method of stress relief and can act as a catalyst in the meditative process. I find it incredibly soothing to watch these guys slowly drift and turn and come up for food, and their coloring is simply beautiful. If I’m being self-critical about this video though, I’d say that I was trying too hard to find the most fish and the most action I could, instead of letting it happen naturally, but for the sake of a video that’s only 30 seconds long, I think that’s perfectly fine.
Some other videos I took that I thought were interesting included pedestrian traffic at Brooklyn Bridge Park in the morning, and the ships sailing through the East River while we sat on the granite steps. I think as an overall picture of Brooklyn, these are probably more applicable, whereas the ones I’ve chosen to link only occur within the Botanical Gardens. However, I wanted to post videos of something we don’t experience on a daily basis, and the Botanical Gardens also had more to offer as time passed through a single stationary shot.