Lithops flower opening/closing - Time lapse HD video

Viewing a Lithops flower for twenty-four hours, from midnight to midnight.

You may notice the huge crack at the bottom of the flower stem - this probably was the bad result of watering the plant during bud growth.

For more about Lithops, please see my photosets.

 

5 minutes per frame, 283 frames total, 10 frames per second in the video. Taken with a Pentax K200D in aperture priority mode (f/32). Trigger: DIY 5-minute timer circuit connected to camera remote input. Camera power supply by wallplug adapter. Nighttime illumination by desktop lamp.

 

Software involved in production:

Easy Graphic Converter (www.etrusoft.com)

for batch rescaling the individual jpg frames to 1280x720

JPGAvi (www.ndrw.co.uk)

for making the 1280x720 AVI video

and k-lite codec pack (www.codecguide.com/)

for the used xvid mpeg-4 codec, set to highest quality.

Original video file size 28MB:

www.flickr.com/video_download.gne?id=3939825873

 

 

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