I love liverworts. I know many people find them ugly and bothersome but I find their strangeness incredibly beautiful as well as their evolutionary story. I wasso excited to find some in my garden this year for the first time.
Amazing time-lapse. How did you manage to maintain so consistent colour and brightness over the time-lapse? Is this indoors or outdoors? Did you use a light tent for light diffusing? I am trying to learn about techniques for maintaining high colour accuracy and constancy in outdoors time-lapse.
Thank you. It's an indoor time lapse. The grow light is also the photography light and is on a custom timer I made to coordinate the lighting with the cameras. I've done some outdoor time lapse videos, and it is very hard to keep things consistent due to both the changing angle of the sun and cloud cover. I tried various techniques, but generally I do not include night time shots. I played with it a bit, and what worked best for a general-purpose outdoor shot (including night) was a decent camera/sensor in Aperture Priority mode with a moderate ISO. If the camera decides on different exposures incorrectly during the day, you can always run it through a deflickering script/program. I always would take more frequent photos than I needed, so that problem photos could be removed. I took far too many photos, and then wrote a script that processes chunks of photos and finds the one most resembling the previous out of the chunk. Also, you can have a separate light of a similar color temp to the sun in the same context. You probably don't want it too bright or it will interfere with plants/animals during the night. If you used some kind of light tent, it should be quite easy to maintain color accuracy. I suppose that if color accuracy during changing lighting is a problem, you could do something like put a white sheet/board in the shot and set to auto white balance... just an idea.
Is the moss eaten by those little animals or is it just dying because it doesn't like the something (00:30 - 00:40 on the left)? Either way, it's a good thing you let the liverwort grow. It's really interesting to see how it grows.
I'm not entirely sure. There are some animals that will "eat" moss, like tardigrades and some nematodes. At first it looks like they are just digging around in the moss, but it does shrink back. I do really like the liverwort. Its growth kind of reminds me of a combination of 'The Blob', fractals, and running water.
Strange we.call them liverworts when their primary function is pulmonary Sorta Did you know a healthy adult human djgestive system has as many neurons as 'an entire' housecat?
