College Student Looking for Tips on Repeat Photography
Hello all,
A little background to start, I'm from Maine and go to Worcester Polytechnic Institue in Massachusetts. I've always loved photography and have a real passion for it. Although I'm studying Business Management with a background in Engineering here at school, I have been pursuing projects within photography and videography.
Anyhow, this summer a team of students including myself will be spending 7 weeks at Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor Maine (which is stunning for people who have never been there or seen photos, there are a bunch on this forum alone). We have the task of documenting the Marshall Brook Watershed through photography mainly. The photos will serve to document the area to evaluate flooding and different environmental impacts over the next few years.
I'm exploring repeat photography and methods to do it. We won't have phone service most likely, but I do have a handheld GPS I use for hunting which I think will come in handy. Is there any tips for people that have done this. We need to be able to repeat the photographs a few times to evaluate changes while we are there (7 weeks). Then we need to also give the information to others including Acadia National Park and future WPI Research groups so they can also duplicate the photos.
If you guys could give me some tips and drop some links to guides or other helpful information that would be awesome.
Using my Canon 6D, and I think I'll just be bringing my 16-24 and 70-200, but my 50mm prime could be easy to use for the purpose of repeat photography.
Attaching Pic for ATTENTION, because it's almost turkey hunting season!!
Comments
I'd recommend a good compass so you can set the camera bearing each time. Maybe ask the park official if you can place a small marking stake to greet exact placement of the camera.
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You don't give a spacific monitoring subject so here are some general documents and examples:
Forest Service:
https://www.fs.fed.us/eng/rsac/invasivespecies/documents/Photopoint_monitoring.pdf
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev3_021209.pdf
National Park Service:
https://science.nature.nps.gov/im/datamgmt/meetings/dm.../15_Mortenson.ppt
BLM:
https://www.blm.gov/nstc/library/pdf/MeasAndMon.pdf
Other:
http://www.botanicalenvironmental.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Millennium-Final-Report.pdf
https://www.nrmsouth.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Photo-Monitoring-Fact-Sheet-NRM-South.pdf
https://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/01563/wdfw01563.pdf
If you want good registration from image to image it can help to take a picture of you tripod and camera in place. Putting the tripod feet in the same holes made the folowing examples, taken 24 hours apart, easy to align for comparison.
https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-knW52pG/0/2a0b3a35/X2/i-knW52pG-X2.jpg
Dale B Dalrymple
...with apology to Archimedies