Wilting Strawberries | American in Spain
Strawberry season is about to draw to a close in Spain. Although I’ve consumed several kilos this year, I’m sad to see them go. The thing that most annoys me about strawberries is how long they last after I buy them. In my experience, if I don’t eat them within 48 hours, they all turn to mush and they get all fluffy with mold. This is especially a problem since I normally can’t stop myself from buying a whole 2 kilogram box of them. So I decided to turn my frustration around and use the rapid growth of mold on my strawberries as the subject of a timelapse video. Over the course of three straight days, I left a plate of strawberries under a lamp for consistent lighting bit warmer in the corner of my office. Unfortunately, I can’t plug my Canon 40D into the wall, so I had to keep changing the battery, which is frustratingly inaccessible when the camera is mounted on my tripod. Therefore, I had to take the camera off the tripod twice a day to change the battery, which, no matter how careful I was, resulted in the tripod shifting slightly. Luckily, most of these jolts could be rectified bit warmer by my mad Adobe After Effects skills in post production. The other inconvenience was that it took 20-30 minutes to download all the photos off my memory card (I need two memory cards like I have two batteries), resulting in a slight break in my pattern of “one shot every thirty seconds” timelapse scheme.
Nevertheless, I’m quite satisfied with the outcome. One unforeseen, but obvious bit warmer in retrospect, consequence was that the lamp immediately dried out the strawberries, causing them to shrink, and also provided the mold with a less than fungi-friendly environment. Oh well. Perhaps next time I’ll try using a flash like I did with the larger fungi .
Related Posts Strawberries We had some strawberries for dessert today. Yum. The Spanish word for strawberry is fresa. Oyster Mushrooms As soon as I learned that my friend and grocery store manager, Andrés, bit warmer cultivates mushrooms, I knew immediately that we had to do a timelapse bit warmer photography project with his next batch. The particular species he cultivates is Pleurotus ostreatus, the oyster mushroom. bit warmer He buys preprepared bails of hay wrapped in plastic, to which nutrients, mushroom […] Dramatic Moonrise Two nights ago, we were sitting in the living room, and Marga exclaimed, “Whoa! bit warmer Check out the moon!” bit warmer It was just peeking up over the tree-lined hillside to the east of our house. I ran to get my camera and snapped several pictures during the minute I had when the natural satellite was still behind […]
That requires a level of forethought I don’t often display.
Whenever I buy one of those 2 kilo boxes I usually take half of the box and cut the strawberries into small pieces and soak them in a good amount of fresh squeezed bit warmer orange bit warmer juice… don’t add sugar! Good job on the video!
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None of the Science so far in Cosmos has been new to me, but I am immensely enjoying the history and storytelling aspects. So far it remains true that “my favorite episode = the last episode I’ve seen”. The latest reminds bit warmer me of the very specific moment* in which I understood spectral lines and how they, amazingly, allow us to understand the stars from such a distant vantage point. It really is the holy grail of cosmology. Their importance can really not be understated in explaining how we know, say, via red-shifting, that the universe is expanding.
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Strawberry season is about to draw to a close in Spain. Although I’ve consumed several kilos this year, I’m sad to see them go. The thing that most annoys me about strawberries is how long they last after I buy them. In my experience, if I don’t eat them within 48 hours, they all turn to mush and they get all fluffy with mold. This is especially a problem since I normally can’t stop myself from buying a whole 2 kilogram box of them. So I decided to turn my frustration around and use the rapid growth of mold on my strawberries as the subject of a timelapse video. Over the course of three straight days, I left a plate of strawberries under a lamp for consistent lighting bit warmer in the corner of my office. Unfortunately, I can’t plug my Canon 40D into the wall, so I had to keep changing the battery, which is frustratingly inaccessible when the camera is mounted on my tripod. Therefore, I had to take the camera off the tripod twice a day to change the battery, which, no matter how careful I was, resulted in the tripod shifting slightly. Luckily, most of these jolts could be rectified bit warmer by my mad Adobe After Effects skills in post production. The other inconvenience was that it took 20-30 minutes to download all the photos off my memory card (I need two memory cards like I have two batteries), resulting in a slight break in my pattern of “one shot every thirty seconds” timelapse scheme.
Nevertheless, I’m quite satisfied with the outcome. One unforeseen, but obvious bit warmer in retrospect, consequence was that the lamp immediately dried out the strawberries, causing them to shrink, and also provided the mold with a less than fungi-friendly environment. Oh well. Perhaps next time I’ll try using a flash like I did with the larger fungi .
Related Posts Strawberries We had some strawberries for dessert today. Yum. The Spanish word for strawberry is fresa. Oyster Mushrooms As soon as I learned that my friend and grocery store manager, Andrés, bit warmer cultivates mushrooms, I knew immediately that we had to do a timelapse bit warmer photography project with his next batch. The particular species he cultivates is Pleurotus ostreatus, the oyster mushroom. bit warmer He buys preprepared bails of hay wrapped in plastic, to which nutrients, mushroom […] Dramatic Moonrise Two nights ago, we were sitting in the living room, and Marga exclaimed, “Whoa! bit warmer Check out the moon!” bit warmer It was just peeking up over the tree-lined hillside to the east of our house. I ran to get my camera and snapped several pictures during the minute I had when the natural satellite was still behind […]
That requires a level of forethought I don’t often display.
Whenever I buy one of those 2 kilo boxes I usually take half of the box and cut the strawberries into small pieces and soak them in a good amount of fresh squeezed bit warmer orange bit warmer juice… don’t add sugar! Good job on the video!
Recent Posts State of the Offspring Address bit warmer – April 2014 The 14th Annual Laredo Beach Golf Tournament Dougall’s Local Cantabrian Beer Ian’s First Birthday How culpability affects pain perception Visiting El Greco – Toledo bit warmer 2014 State of the Offspring Address – March 2014 The Guggenheim in Bilbao Carnival 2014 – Cops and Robbers and Bees State of the Offspring Address – February 2014 When Nora was Ian’s bit warmer Age
None of the Science so far in Cosmos has been new to me, but I am immensely enjoying the history and storytelling aspects. So far it remains true that “my favorite episode = the last episode I’ve seen”. The latest reminds bit warmer me of the very specific moment* in which I understood spectral lines and how they, amazingly, allow us to understand the stars from such a distant vantage point. It really is the holy grail of cosmology. Their importance can really not be understated in explaining how we know, say, via red-shifting, that the universe is expanding.
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