After standing outside in the pouring rain last night at a girls lacrosse game, I woke up to snow on the ground. On April 16. I had the opposite feeling back in the winter when snowpacalypse was forecast for something like the seventh time. I set up a GoPro in the front yard to capture a time lapse of the impending blizzard. What we got instead was a glorified dusting with temps in the teens. Without a specific weather story to pursue, I took the time lapse concept on the road throughout the day and put together this video.
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New London poses for a ‘Big Picture’
Shot with two still cameras and two video cameras with the help of my co-worker Jenna Cho. I conceived this idea thinking back to last years event where the photographer stood on a balcony across the street. I arrived to find he would be shooting from a ladder on the plaza, which essentially relegated Jenna to standing with a HV-30 in one hand and using her other hand to steady an overextended tripod.
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Time lapse: Parade plaza rink takes shape
A skating rink with a synthetic ice surface is constructed on New London’s Parade plaza. The rink’s grand opening is scheduled for December 3.
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Back in the fall, my colleague Jenna Cho wanted to do a video story about the crew from Erik Block Design-Build. They were going to be building a post-and-beam barn in Lyme. Problem was, construction had barely started, and we needed the story for the paper sooner rather than later. In brainstorming ideas for the […]
Read more "130-day time lapse: winter barn construction"Lunar Eclipse Winter Solstice 2010 Time Lapse
The weather forecast wasn’t great for Monday night-Tuesday morning, but I decided to stay up anyway to try a time lapse of the total lunar eclipse. I used the built-in interval timers on a pair of Nikon D200s, one with a 17-55mm lens, the other started with a 300mm and a 1.4x teleconverter. My thought […]
Read more "Lunar Eclipse Winter Solstice 2010 Time Lapse"Moving the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse
back at work after a holiday vacation, and my first story was right out the back door. As part of a redesign of a plaza in downtown New London, a historic schoolhouse was being moved across the street. Since it was so close to home, I was able to lug out just about every piece […]
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Peter Huoppi - Multimedia Journalist 