I took advantage of the nice weather today to study for my French exam shoot some photos and collect some sound at the Wentworth Farm Conservation Area near my house in Amherst, Mass.
The result was the best panorama I’ve put together so far (click to enlarge) and a mediocre Soundslides project.
The panorama is a roughly-150-degree view of the pond near Wentworth Farm. In between shooting photos I grabbed a bunch of natural sound – nothing too interesting: footsteps on grass and mud, a plane overhead, the sound of rushing water – and compiled it into this slideshow.
I must say I don’t like the way Soundslides displays photo sequences taken on the burst setting as much as I have with similarslideshows I’ve made with iMovie, but for stories that really make use of captions and feature the standard three-minute, 18 frame formula, Soundslides is still far superior.
This image consists of 17 frames I shot with my Canon Rebel xsi and its standard EF-S 18-55mm zoom lens. It was taken near the Wentworth Farm Conservation Area in Amherst, Mass.
This morning, I went with former housemate James Burns and current housemate/landlord/compost-lover Ryan Harb to check out an open house at the Swartz Family Farm in North Amherst, Mass.
Joe Swartz and his family have a couple of hydroponic greenhouses set up on their farm, and they opened one up to the public today. We were among a handful of people who showed up to get a tour.
