I took an HD video camera and my still camera up to the wind farm north of town Thursday to capture a time lapse of some turbine assembly. Look down a couple of posts and you can see that I knew there were a few ready for the final stages of construction, so I was confident that leaving work to hang out up north would be productive. I wasn’t counting on the pests, however. Here’s one of the time lapse clips (roll over the bottom of the image if you don’t see the playback controls):

There were little gnats or something swarming me from time to time, so early in the day I applied some insect repellent and felt confident the day would be hassle free. I hadn’t counted on them swarming my cameras, however. I haven’t had the opportunity to review the video time lapses I did, but the video above is my favorite time lapse from my still camera and I’m pretty ticked that it has bugs all over it.

Being in the video business, I’m no stranger to artifact removal; in fact, I did a bit of that earlier this week. I had some videos where the second camera operator poked the front of their camera into the shot a bit, and the boom operator (me, in one case) ducked the boom pole into the corner of the shot a couple of times as well. It was a hostile shooting environment, where that kind of thing happens. Anyway, I spent part of my week removing those kinds of things as well as some wire removal and even a pen that someone dropped right in the middle of the video. So removing a few bugs can’t be so hard, can it?

Actually, in this case, it’ll have to be a frame-by-frame job. I’ll do it, but I’m not sure when. Perhaps my stubbornness and the fact that I’m really tweaked about this will step up the timetable. I have to review the HD footage tomorrow, which I shot at 1080p resolution, but I still think the sequence above is my favorite unless I find a better one in the rest of my footage. If not, I’m in for some aggressive Photoshop. After I go through the rest of my photos and the HD video I’ll be posting some of it here…along with that Memorial Bridge thing I teased about earlier this week!