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.

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