For this first post of 2021, I’m sharing a video I did about a week ago. I edited this rather quickly and put it on YouTube soon after, as I wanted to share this with my brother, who has been thinking about getting himself one of these action cameras. I shot this on a DJI Osmo Action, set up on a cheap chest harness, as … Continue reading Lija 5k Run Hyperlapse
Reblogging something I wrote for the ASEMI project website, that perhaps may be of interest to readers of this blog. A few months ago, our project team was asked to submit a short test pitch video to the ATTRACT consortium, in preparation for the final conference presentations to be held in September. We had already booked a session with colleagues in the Marketing, Communications & … Continue reading ASEMI test pitch video for ATTRACT
Last week I thought I’d change gear a bit in my archery session and took my high speed camera with me. The idea was to observe the initial part of the arrow flight, just after release as the arrow exits the bow. I have a hunch that clearance isn’t perfect with my new (well, newish) arrows, so I wanted to check that out. Jury’s still … Continue reading High Speed Video of Recurve Release
Two weeks ago, right after returning from the Kick-off Meeting for Funded ATTRACT Projects at CERN, I was again driving to the Public Broadcasting Services Ltd. studios in Gwardamanġa. This time I was invited for a pre-recorded interview (in Maltese) with Mario Xuereb for his series Ras Imb Ras. We started with our project on the automatic segmentation of microtomography images of Egyptian mummies, in … Continue reading Interview on Ras Imb Ras about our project and local research & education
Yesterday’s work started in an unusual way with me heading off to the Public Broadcasting Services Ltd. studios in Gwardamanġa, for a live 08:00 interview (in Maltese) with Quinton Scerri and Clara Farrugia on the morning programme TVAM. The topic is our recently awarded project on the automatic segmentation of microtomography images of Egyptian mummies, in collaboration with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in … Continue reading Interview on TVAM about our recently funded project
Something a little different today. A friend of mine, currently living in Australia, was visiting Malta over the holidays. As he’s also a climber, we pencilled in a day’s outing early on. In the morning we headed to Chapel Buttress, in the sunshine, and we were soon climbing in tee-shirts. I took my EOS M5 and a tripod with me, as he wished to have … Continue reading The Shoe Seat
Sharing a short video clip today from a climbing outing near Lapsi on Christmas Eve. As you can see, winter is perfect for climbing (and walking and other outdoorsy things) round here. Pity the days are short. In this case, I went down to Magħlaq cave with three friends, two of whom had never been. It’s an abseil approach, which I always find a bit … Continue reading Magħlaq Cave
Fell a bit behind with blogging this week, though I did manage to edit a video we shot last week. On one of the climbing outings, at the tail end of the week, we decided to take things easier than usual and try out some video. So I packed my camera, a couple lenses, filters, and tripod. We were a party of four, with three … Continue reading Fluttering Arête
Another video bonus post this week. Once again, last week I found some time to go to the archery range in Marsa for some training, and while I was there I set up the FPS1000 high-speed camera to capture incoming arrows from behind the target boss. Given the narrow field of view, and because I really didn’t want to hit a €1500+ camera with an … Continue reading Recurve Target View
A bit of an unusual bonus post today. Last week I found some time to go to the archery range in Marsa for some training. I haven’t been regular enough with this, which is something I hope to fix. Now while I was there I thought to myself how interesting it would be to watch an arrow flying in from the point of view of … Continue reading Incoming Arrow
Last week I tried out the high speed camera at the outdoor range. Eventually the plan is to use this camera to analyse the dynamics of the bow and archer. So for now I’m working through the various options of what I want to shoot and the corresponding practical details. So I augmented my practice session last week by shooting some high speed footage. Focusing … Continue reading Recurve Shot in Slow Motion
Earlier this year I bought a high speed camera for a work project (more about this some other time, I hope). It took me a while to source the batteries, because it seems there’s only one shop on the whole island that sells them and it’s almost impossible to get them shipped over. This happens to be a safety issue, as Li-ion batteries are prone … Continue reading Test Shoot with a High Speed Camera
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