LorraineShannon
09-07-2009, 08:45 AM
After posting the following on the Charlotte Forum, it was suggested to me that I post this information on the General Discussion Forum:
I’m glad my son, Trevor, was able to participate in the South Mountains State Park outing. We had a good time. Thank you for making him feel welcome. You guys are great!
As mentioned at lunch, he has a website (www.trevorshp.com) which he created in high school and continues to update. He has posted his photography projects, as well as many projects unrelated to photography.
To give you a little background, Trevor first became interested in photography just before entering the NC School of Science & Math (NCSSM) in Durham, NC for his junior year of high school. During the summer, he hacked a disposable digital camera to have it take macro photos. Go to the “Photography” tab on his website to see some of the pictures he took using that camera and other macros using two other methods. While attending NCSSM, he took a high speed imaging class, and then continued to use the lab at school and a makeshift lab in our house while he was home on break to do more high speed work. He has quite a collection of high speed photos on his website.
After NCSSM it was off to MIT in Cambridge, MA. There he experimented with time lapse photography using a programmable TI-89 calculator. To view the time lapse of the cloud movement he took during the picnic lunch at South Mountains State Park, follow this link: http://vimeo.com/6447708. While we ate, his camera took about 800 photos each 5 seconds apart. Back home, he used QuickTime Pro to make a video using each photo as a frame. (If the video doesn’t play smoothly, go to the right side of the video to turn off HD. Click where it says “HD is on”.) Other time lapse videos are on his website.
Trevor worked closely with a photography instructor at MIT this past school year, and went with him during the summer to the University of Alaska Fairbanks to co-teach a ten day extreme photography class.
Trevor is beginning his third year at MIT and is pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering. In his spare time he makes things – lots of things!
I’m glad my son, Trevor, was able to participate in the South Mountains State Park outing. We had a good time. Thank you for making him feel welcome. You guys are great!
As mentioned at lunch, he has a website (www.trevorshp.com) which he created in high school and continues to update. He has posted his photography projects, as well as many projects unrelated to photography.
To give you a little background, Trevor first became interested in photography just before entering the NC School of Science & Math (NCSSM) in Durham, NC for his junior year of high school. During the summer, he hacked a disposable digital camera to have it take macro photos. Go to the “Photography” tab on his website to see some of the pictures he took using that camera and other macros using two other methods. While attending NCSSM, he took a high speed imaging class, and then continued to use the lab at school and a makeshift lab in our house while he was home on break to do more high speed work. He has quite a collection of high speed photos on his website.
After NCSSM it was off to MIT in Cambridge, MA. There he experimented with time lapse photography using a programmable TI-89 calculator. To view the time lapse of the cloud movement he took during the picnic lunch at South Mountains State Park, follow this link: http://vimeo.com/6447708. While we ate, his camera took about 800 photos each 5 seconds apart. Back home, he used QuickTime Pro to make a video using each photo as a frame. (If the video doesn’t play smoothly, go to the right side of the video to turn off HD. Click where it says “HD is on”.) Other time lapse videos are on his website.
Trevor worked closely with a photography instructor at MIT this past school year, and went with him during the summer to the University of Alaska Fairbanks to co-teach a ten day extreme photography class.
Trevor is beginning his third year at MIT and is pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering. In his spare time he makes things – lots of things!