#video stack

The first Backswimmer time stack I posted, cropped, mirrored, spun and overlaid until I ended up here.

While I was out shooting timelapses of the sunset, I noticed a lot of water spiders huddling together in groups on the surface of the water. So in between timelapses I decided to take some video footage of them. They're interesting insects. There were some that were much bigger than the majority, and they seemed to be corralling the smaller ones. I'm guessing they're the adults taking care of their young. The most interesting part was when I through a rock in the water, close to one of the clusters. The waves from the rock put the water spiders into motion, and it looks like they create an interference pattern. I feel like the waves from the rock are what triggered it, but it's actually the movement of the bugs creating the pattern. It looks like they form two waves that move in opposite directions. The other way it could work is that the spiders act as one wave the the water as the opposing wave, but I don't think that is the case here, as the spiders move in the same outward direction as the waves in the water. For this image I took a section of a video clip, imported the frames as layers in photoshop and then stacked the layers, as I do with my time stacks made from timelapses. This shows the paths that the insects took over a 15 second period. Here's a view videos if you're interested... Normal video -  https://youtu.be/xX39Ub8vd2I Time stack version -  https://youtu.be/blsuE7Lk1LA

While I was out shooting timelapses of the sunset, I noticed a lot of water spiders huddling together in groups on the surface of the water. So in between timelapses I decided to take some video footage of them. They're interesting insects. There were some that were much bigger than the majority, and they seemed to be corralling the smaller ones. I'm guessing they're the adults taking care of their young. The most interesting part was when I through a rock in the water, close to one of the clusters. The waves from the rock put the water spiders into motion, and it looks like they create an interference pattern. I feel like the waves from the rock are what triggered it, but it's actually the movement of the bugs creating the pattern. It looks like they form two waves that move in opposite directions. The other way it could work is that the spiders act as one wave the the water as the opposing wave, but I don't think that is the case here, as the spiders move in the same outward direction as the waves in the water. For this image I took a section of a video clip, imported the frames as layers in photoshop and then stacked the layers, as I do with my time stacks made from timelapses. This shows the paths that the insects took over a 5 second period. Here's a view videos if you're interested... Normal video -  https://youtu.be/xX39Ub8vd2I Time stack version -  https://youtu.be/blsuE7Lk1LA