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Top Of City Missing
Top Of City Missing
John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2025 to 2005 > January 2025 > Top Of City Missing
Foggy Downtown Sunset
This is 656 frames from 4:01pm until 5:50pm. Exposure at the start was f8 at 1/50th of a second, at end was f8, 4 seconds. The photos are take every 10 second. No stabilization as the camera was on a tripod on solid ground (just outside of the Granville Island Public Market).

This is one of the easiest timelapses ever - the exposure is almost linear (the camera made the correct and consistent guesses) and no stabilization required.

Fog downtown is pretty rare - it usually happens when we transition from wet weather to cold weather in winter.
John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2025 to 2005 > January 2022 > Foggy Downtown Sunset
Sun Beams Through Clouds
Sun Beams Through Clouds
John Harvey Photo > Photos of Vancouver > View of Vancouver From My Apartment > Sun Beams Through Clouds
Skytain And Traffic Near Stadium Station
I like how the viaduct takes up about half of the image but doesn't really draw your attention.
John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2025 to 2005 > November 2015 > Skytain And Traffic Near Stadium Station
Kids With Taipei 101 Behind
Kids With Taipei 101 Behind
Tags: city, Taiwan
People: Claira, Nara

John Harvey Photo > Trips out of the Country > Taiwan > Kids With Taipei 101 Behind
Freighters Under Lionsgate At Sunset
This video took a look of work to get. I tried shooting this once before but the clouds were too heavy which lead to a very blah sunset and I misconfigured the camera (ISO was not in automatic) which lead to a variable interval (the clouds speed up).
This sequence is 1064 frames, taken every 8 seconds. I started at 7:51pm at f6.3, 1/3200 (-2 exposure compensation) and ended at 10:13pm at f4.5, 6 second exposures). It was shot in aperture priority mode.
I was standing on the lions gate bridge which introduces some challenges. First - the bridge has lights and you can see them start to dominate the park lighting in the last 1/3rd of the video. The much bigger problem is that the bridge moves a LOT. The frames have both a vertical translation and rotation element. I used ffmpeg to reduce the motion, but because this image is dominated by the clouds and boats I had to mask out (using a blur) much of the image so that the video stability detect code could find the motion. The code was:
# Gather the source images into a movie:
ffmpeg -framerate 30 -pattern_type glob -i 'DSC_*.jpg' -c:v libx264 LionsgateFreightersHg.mp4

# blur out most of the movie except the cliffs on the left and the mountains on the right
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i LionsgateFreightersHg.mp4 -filter_complex "[0:v]boxblur=50[bg];[0:v]crop=w=1078:h=987:x=0:y=1038[fg];[bg][fg]overlay=0:1038[c];[0:v]crop=w=1125:h=516:x=2114:y=776[fg];[c][fg]overlay=2114:776" -map 0:v blurredVideo.mp4

# Use the blurred video to generate the transform estimates. Because of the minimum constrast requirements, the stability detect can't detect the clouds. ocean or boats.
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i blurredVideo.mp4 -vf vidstabdetect=stepsize=16:shakiness=4:accuracy=15:mincontrast=0.4:show=1 cropVectors.mp4 -f null -

# Use the transform vectors to make the final video.
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i LionsgateFreightersHg.mp4 -vf "vidstabtransform=input=transforms.trf" -crf 20 LionsgateFreightersStabilized.mp4

There are a few large ships in this timelapse. The first is the Bulk Carrier Kinoura followed by the Island Trader Tank Barge and finally the Bulk Carrier Sunny Hope. There are at least a dozen smaller ships including a police boat.
John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2025 to 2005 > May 2021 > Freighters Under Lionsgate At Sunset
Burrard Street Bridge in Snow

Snow fall is pretty rare in Vancouver. I thought I should go out and take pictures.


John Harvey Photo > Photos of Vancouver > Vancouver in Snow > Burrard Street Bridge in Snow
Jeremy Turned Around
That is the Granville Street Bridge behind him
People: Jeremy

John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2025 to 2005 > 06_2008 > Jeremy Turned Around
Golden City
Golden City
John Harvey Photo > Photos of Vancouver > View of Vancouver From My Apartment > Golden City
Snowed In Dock
Snowed In Dock
John Harvey Photo > Photos of Vancouver > Vancouver in Snow > Snowed In Dock
Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park, in Spring
This is from the little bay between Deadman's Island and Hallelujah Point. It's a composite of 9 images.
John Harvey Photo > Photos of Vancouver > Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park, in Spring
Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park
This is from the little bay between Deadman's Island and Hallelujah Point. It's a composite of 5 images.
John Harvey Photo > Photos of Vancouver > Downtown Vancouver From Stanley Park
Purple City Wide Shot
The dynamic range of modern digital cameras is quite impressive but it was still easier to mix city and fireworks when there was a long delay that left the sky dark.
John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2025 to 2005 > July 2015 > Purple City Wide Shot
Red Disks City Wide Shot
Red Disks City Wide Shot
John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2025 to 2005 > July 2015 > Red Disks City Wide Shot
Signage Sticking Out
Signage Sticking Out
John Harvey Photo > Trips out of the Country > Hong Kong 2 > Signage Sticking Out
Ting Ting
Ting Ting
John Harvey Photo > Trips out of the Country > Hong Kong 2 > Ting Ting
Urban Canyon
Urban Canyon
John Harvey Photo > Trips out of the Country > Hong Kong 2 > Urban Canyon
Reds And Blues
Reds And Blues
John Harvey Photo > Photos of Vancouver > View of Vancouver From My Apartment > Reds And Blues
Mixed Light
Mixed Light
John Harvey Photo > Photos of Vancouver > View of Vancouver From My Apartment > Mixed Light
Blue Bursts Wide
This is a much higher quality version of This photo I took years ago.
John Harvey Photo > Photos of Vancouver > View of Vancouver From My Apartment > Blue Bursts Wide
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