For the past week I’ve been installing a webcam in Golden, CO. This is my first attempt at a wireless/solar webcam installation. It’s been kicking my butt and also providing some great On the Job Training. I’ll post more details on the installation later, I’m still working through a few bugs. However before I get side tracked I wanted to talk about something that I realized while designing the webcam interface for JobSiteVisitor.com. The lighting and consistency of the time-lapse slide show would be much more uniform and less distracting to watch if the photos were all taken around the same time of day. This makes sense, right?

Previous construction time-lapses movies I’ve made consisted of images taken every 10-15 minutes through out the day. All these photos were then dropped onto a time line and speed-up like 500%. The effect was very cool however the changing daylight is very distracting. This video will show you what I mean.

So with JobSiteVisitor.com’s new webcam integration users will see real time webcam images but we’re only going to archive one photo from the same time each day. This will provide more consistent lighting for our time-lapse viewing. This integration will be available in the upper subscription package with-in the next week. Let me know if you have any questions or thoughts on this added feature.

Managing Construction photos can get out of hand when you’re taking photos every week. It’s important to have a plan regarding how you’re project plans to organize their progress photos. Often times project will have multiple people taking photos on multiple cameras. This slide show is designed to provide some basic information on why it’s a good idea to organize progress photos using JobSiteVisitor.com. The slide show also shows examples of what happens when you take progress photos from the same location on a regular basis over the duration of the project. A funny thing happens… you are able to document progress with your progress photos.

Special Thanks to the following Customers for their help with this video and their continued support of JobSiteVisitor.com.

Nathan Mendel, Mendel and Company Construction
Ed Bushel, Axia Construction Group
Chris Burden, Timbers Resorts
Kirsten Murphy, Timbers Resorts
Mark Norris, Timbers Resorts
Eric Blanke, Haselden Construction
Jamie Curcio, Haselden Construction
Chris Troy, Grandvaux Development Group LLC

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All too often construction projects end up in some type of litigation and lawyers are brought in to resolve issues relating to delays, cost-overruns, construction defects and many other conflicts. Progress photos become an important tool for construction lawyers when it comes to resolving specific claims or issues related to the project’s “Critical Path” and “As-Built Schedule”. JobSiteVisitor.com is a construction progress photography hosting website that manages, organizes, and shares progress photos with the project team. This service conditions photographers to take progress photos from the same location on a consistent basis. Taking photos from the same spot each week creates the visual as-built history that is needed to resolve many construction related claims.  JobSiteVisitor.com then uses image viewers to organize the progress photos in chronological order by week and by point location. This online service provides weekly job site tours and time-lapse history while providing visual photographic documentation of the as-built construction.
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