zondag 30 oktober 2011

Landscapes: Volume One

A year's compilation of my time lapse work. All shot on the Canon 5D2 and processed in Adobe After Effects. The majority of the shots are in my beautiful home state of Arizona. Goblin Valley State Park and Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah also make an appearance.

If you are interested in hiring me or licensing my clips please call 1-888-444-2739 or email tvcrews@crewwestinc.com

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Every clip is a RAW image sequence (5616 x 3744) that I rendered out as a 1080P 23.976fps Quick Time movie. The motion control is achieved using servo motors.

Cast: Dustin Farrell and Crew West Inc.

Tags: 5d2, 5d mk2, canon 5d2, timelapse, motion controlled, milky way, crew west, hdr, high dynamic range, Arizona and Utah


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Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse

Time lapse video of Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse on December 21, 2010 from 1:10 AM EST (6:10 GMT) to 5:03 AM EST (10:03 GMT) from Gainesville Florida. The music is Claude Debussy's Nocturnes: Sirènes.
A stabilized version of this video has been posted at: vimeo.com/​18239117

Cast: William Castleman

Tags: Time Lapse, lunar eclipse and astronomy


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The Unseen Sea

Update: Thanks so much for all your comments! I am reading them all and enjoy them a lot! I am sorry I can't reply to all of you. I am traveling at the moment and only have internet access once in a while. I hope to get to all the questions eventually. Thanks again!

A collection of time lapses I took around the San Francisco Bay Area roughly shot over the period of one year.

Please watch in HD :-)

Find more of my work on my website simonchristen.com

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Music by Nick Cave - Mary's Song from the Soundtrack of "Assassination of Jesse James"

Cast: Simon Christen

Tags: fog, clouds, bay area, san francisco, night, moon, full moon, moon rise, moon set, sun set, time lapse, california, glow, city, The Unseen Sea, skyline, waves, sea, ocean and unseen


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zaterdag 29 oktober 2011

Midnight Sun | Iceland

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Midnight Sun: A natural phenomenon occurring in the summer months north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun never fully sets and remains visible 24 hours a day.

This short time lapse film was shot during the Icelandic Midnight Sun in June of 2011.

For 17 days I travelled solo around the entire island shooting almost 24 hours, sleeping in the car, and eating whenever I had the time. During my days shooting this film I shot 38,000 images, travelled some 2900 miles, and saw some of the most amazing, beautiful, and indescribable landscapes on the planet. Iceland is absolutely one of the most beautiful and unusual places you could ever imagine. Especially during the Midnight Sun when the quality of light hitting the landscape is very unusual, and very spectacular.

Iceland is a landscape photographers paradise and playground, and should be number 1 on every photographers must visit list. Iceland during the Midnight Sun is in sort of a permanent state of sunset. The sun never full sets and travels horizontally across the horizon throughout the night, as can be seen in the opening shot and at the :51 second mark in the video.

During the Arctic summer, sunset was at midnight and sunrise was at 3am. The Arctic summer sun provided 24 hours a day of light, with as much as 6 hours daily of "Golden light". Once the sun had set it wouldn't even get dark enough for the stars to come out, and they don't start to reappear until August.

My advice to everyone out there, photographer or not, is simple... You MUST visit Iceland sometime during your lifetime. You will never regret it.

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Cameras and Lenses:
2 Canon 5DII DSLR cameras
1 Canon 7D
Various Canon lenses

Music by This Will Destroy You
Song: "The World is Our"
Website: myspace.com/​thiswilldestroyyou
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Special Thanks to:
REYKJAVIK RENT A CAR (reykjavikrentacar.is/​)
Dynamic Perception (dynamicperception.com/​)
Jag35 (jag35.com/​)
Kessler Crane (kesslercrane.com/​)
LRTimelapse (lrtimelapse.com)
Timescapes (timescapes.org)
Michael Levy Studio (typolover.com) for his Icelandic eROADBOOK (typolover.com/​_travel/​iceland_2009/​iceland_days_index.htm)

Cast: SCIENTIFANTASTIC

Tags: Iceland, Timelapse, Jokusarlon, Reykjavik, Midnight Sun, dynamic perception, budir, Landmannalaugar, blue lagoon, godafoss, lake myvatn and Dyrholaey


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Mammoth Mountain Chair Lifts

Shot at Main Lodge right under Chair 11 (Discovery Chair). Very windy night, lots of people, and lots of headlights flashing throughout the shot.

Also check out my latest video: vimeo.com/​27974233

Cast: SCIENTIFANTASTIC

Tags: Mammoth Mountain, Mammoth, timelapse and star lapse


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El Cielo de Canarias / Canary sky - Tenerife

"El Cielo de Canarias"

Realizado y producido por Daniel López. elcielodecanarias.com


Actualización, publicado en:

NASA en Astronomy Picture of the Day:
apod.nasa.gov/​apod/​ap110516.html

National Geographic:
facebook.com/​natgeo/​posts/​110554052365930

Bad Astronomy:
blogs.discovermagazine.com/​badastronomy/​2011/​05/​04/​incredibly-impossibly-beautiful-time-lapse-video/​

Universe Today:
universetoday.com/​85797/​dazzling-timelapse-canary-skies/​


Escenas tomadas desde Tenerife, a más de 2.000 metros sobre el nivel del mar y a lo largo de un año, para poder captar todos los posibles matices, nubes, estrellas, colores desde un paisaje único y desde uno de los mejores cielos del planeta.
Primero de una serie de vídeos Time Lapse nocturnos y crepusculares tomados en las Islas Canarias tratando de captar la belleza de cada isla.
Para captar el movimiento natural de la tierra, estrellas nubes, sol y Luna se usó la técnica TimeLapse, raíles Dolly verticales y horizontales, cabezales con movimientos horizontal y vertical. toma de datos HDR.



Algunas escenas del vídeo:

- "La Catedral" en el llano de Ucanca, toma nocturna con el Planeta Júpiter cruzando la escena.
- El Árbol de Piedra (Roque Cinchado) con un Tajinaste apuntando a la estrella polar.
- Tajinastes "nocturnos", El Tajinaste Rojo, endemismo Canario que florece en primavera.
- El "Gorro" en el Teide. Formación de una nube conocida como gorro en el pico del Teide.
- "Cascadas de nubes" que atraviesan las montañas como ríos de nubes multicolor.
- Mar de nubes rompiendo contra las montañas al igual que lo hiciera el mar.
- Gran charco de agua en el llano de Ucanca donde estrellas y nubes lenticulares se reflejan.
- Tajinastes nocturnos con la Vía Láctea saliendo por el horizonte tomada con un raíl dolly.
- Video del Sol poniéndose y un doble "rayo verde".
- Pléyades y la galaxia de Andrómeda entre rocas en las minas de San José.
- Escenas espectaculares de la puesta de sol en el Parque Nacional del Teide con nubes y movimiento dolly.
- ArcoIris desde el Parque Nacional del Teide.
- Halos multicolor alrededor de la Luna.
- Nubes estacionarias que permanecen horas en el mismo sitio ven como cambian sus colores por la puesta de Sol.


Daniel López es fotógrafo y astrofotógrafo que vive en Tenerife. Trabaja realizando fotografía y vídeo, especializado en nocturnas usando multitud de técnicas, desde cámara con trípode para captar cielo y tierra en la misma foto, telescopios amateur para realizar fotografías de los objetos astronómicos hasta telescopios profesionales para captar detalles y alta resolución. También realiza y produce videos relacionados con la naturaleza, paisajes y lugares interesantes en los que siempre trata de sacar algo nuevo y dar otro punto de vista diferente y "mágico".

elcielodecanarias.com
daniel.lopez@elcielodecanarias.com

Música:
Angel´s Tear (Aeon 2). Matti Paalanen
jamendo.com/​en/​artist/​matti.paalanen


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"El Cielo de Canarias" "Canary Sky"

Project produced by Daniel Lopez. elcielodecanarias.com

Scenes taken from Tenerife, more than 2,000 meters above sea level and over a year to capture all possible shades, clouds, stars, colors from a unique landscape and from one of the best skies on the planet.
First in a series of videos nocturnal and crepuscular Time Lapse taken in the Canary Islands trying to capture the beauty of each island.
To capture the natural movement of the earth, stars, clouds, sun and moon TimeLapse technique was used, Dolly vertical and horizontal rails, spindles with horizontal and vertical movements. HDR data collection.

Some scenes of the video:

- "The Cathedral" in the plain of Ucanca, night shot with the planet Jupiter across the scene.
- El Arbol de Piedra (Roque Cinchado) with a Tajinaste pointing to Polaris.
- Tajinastes "night", The Red Tajinaste, endemism Canario blooming in spring.
- The "hat" in the Teide. Formation of a cloud known as cap at the peak of Teide.
- "Waterfalls of clouds crossing the mountains and rivers of multicolored clouds.
- Sea of clouds crashing against the mountains as it did the sea.
- Large pool of water in the plain of Ucanca lenticular clouds where stars are reflected.
- Tajinastes night with the Milky Way taken out on the horizon with a dolly track.
- Video of the sun setting and a double green flash. "
- Pleiades and the Andromeda galaxy between rocks in the mines of San Jose.
- Scenes spectacular sunset in the Teide National Park with clouds and moving dolly.
- ArcoIris from the Teide National Park.
- Multicolor Halos around the moon.
- Clouds remain stationary hours at the site are changing their colors as the sunset


Daniel Lopez is a photographer / astrophotographer based in Tenerife . Works by photography and video, specializing in evening using many techniques, from camera tripod grasp heaven and earth in the same photo, amateur telescopes to take pictures of astronomical objects to professional telescopes to capture details and high resolution. It also performs and produces videos about nature, landscapes and interesting places in the draw is always something new and take another different view and "magical."

elcielodecanarias.com
daniel.lopez@elcielodecanarias.com

Music:
Angel´s Tear (Aeon 2). Matti Paalanen
jamendo.com/​en/​artist/​matti.paalanen

Cast: Daniel López

Tags: Teide, time lapse, tenerife, islas canarias, canary islands, milky way, vía láctea, Parque Nacional del Teide, videos de canarias, Daniel Lopez, astrophoto and HD


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North Lake Sunrise Timelapse

Another test render of North Lake. Shot this after the night shot was finished. I had the Little Bramper hooked up and was messing around with some bramping.

Cast: SCIENTIFANTASTIC

Tags: Timelapse, Mammoth Lakes, Bishop Creek, North Lake, Fall Colors and Sierras


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The Arctic Light

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This was filmed between 29th April and 10th May 2011 in the Arctic, on
the archipelago Lofoten in Norway.

My favorite natural phenomenon is one I do not even know the name of, even after talking to meteorologists and astrophysicists I am none the wiser.What I am talking about I have decided to call The Arctic Light and it is a natural phenomenon occurring 2-4 weeks before you can see the Midnight Sun.

The Sunset and Sunrise are connected in one magnificent show of color and light lasting from 8 to 12 hours. The sun is barely going below the horizon before coming up again. This is the most colorful light that I know, and the main reason I have been going up there for the last 4 years, at the exact
same time of year, to photograph. Based on previous experience, I knew this was going to be a very
difficult trip. Having lost a couple of cameras and some other equipment up there before, it was crucial to bring an extra set of everything. I also
made sure I had plenty of time in case something went wrong.
If you can imagine roping down mountain cliffs, or jumping around on slippery rocks covered in seaweed with 2 tripods, a rail, a controller,
camera, lenses, filters and rigging for 4-5 hour long sequences at a time, and then
having to calculate the rise and fall of the tides in order to capture the essence - it all proved bit of a challenge.

And almost as if planned, the trip would turn out to become very
difficult indeed. I had numerous setbacks including: airline lost my
luggage, struggling to swim ashore after falling into the Arctic sea: twice, breaking lenses, filters, tripod, computer, losing the whole dolly rig and controller into the sea, and even falling off a rather tall rock and ending
up in the hospital. As much as I wanted to give up, the best way Out is
always “Through”. I am glad I stuck it through though because there were some amazing sunrises waiting. At 1:06 you see a single scene from day to night to day which is from 9pm to 7am. Think about that for a minute.. 10 hours with light like that.

I asked the very talented Marika Takeuchi to specifically compose and
perform a song for this movie, and what she came up with is absolutely remarkable. Thank you very much Marika!



Available in Digital Cinema 4k

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Music: "The Arctic Light" by Marika Takeuchi
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and to my friend Geir Nøtnes for all the help.

Cast: TSO Photography

Tags: norway, lofoten, landscape, seascape, time-lapse, dolly, nature, sunset, sunrise, arctic, light, sun, moon, time and hd


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zondag 23 oktober 2011

The Mountain

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This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide.
Spain´s highest mountain @(3718m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world´s best observatories.

The goal was to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy along with one of the most amazing mountains I know El Teide. I have to say this was one of the most exhausting trips I have done. There was a lot of hiking at high altitudes and probably less than 10 hours of sleep in total for the whole week. Having been here 10-11 times before I had a long list of must-see locations I wanted to capture for this movie, but I am still not 100% used to carrying around so much gear required for time-lapse movies.

A large sandstorm hit the Sahara Desert on the 9th April (bit.ly/​g3tsDW) and at approx 3am in the night the sandstorm hit me, making it nearly impossible to see the sky with my own eyes.

Interestingly enough my camera was set for a 5 hour sequence of the milky way during this time and I was sure my whole scene was ruined. To my surprise, my camera had managed to capture the sandstorm which was backlit by Grand Canary Island making it look like golden clouds. The Milky Way was shining through the clouds, making the stars sparkle in an interesting way. So if you ever wondered how the Milky Way would look through a Sahara sandstorm, look at 00:32.

Available in Digital Cinema 4k.

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Music by my friend: Ludovico Einaudi - "Nuvole bianche" with permission.
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Cast: TSO Photography

Tags: timelapse, time-lapse, mountain, spain, nature, landscape, star, astro, milkyway, stars, seascape, valley, canon, dolly, visual, dreamscape, vimeo, sky, tenerife and hd


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Timescapes Timelapse: Learning to Fly

Production footage from my debut film, "TimeScapes".

Film's website: timescapes.org

Follow the production at: twitter.com/​timescapes and Facebook: facebook.com/​pages/​TimeScapes/​203801612992538

shot on the Canon 5D Mark II DLSR Winter/Spring 2009.

Music by Pink Floyd. Buy it here: bit.ly/​bYkfa0

Cast: Tom Lowe

Tags: timelapse, time, lapse, night, stars, moon, 5D2, 5D Mark II, california, arizona, joshua tree, Seguro, moco, HD and pink floyd


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Timescapes Timelapse: Mountain Light

Here are some shots from my trip in August to California's White Mountains and Yosemite, all shot on the Canon 5D2.

Film's website: timescapes.org

Follow the production at: twitter.com/​timescapes and Facebook: facebook.com/​TimeScapes

To contact me: timescapes.org/​contact.html

Music is Michael Stearns. Buy it here: bit.ly/​kAaKw9

My sincerest and most humble admiration to Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson.

Some behind-the-scenes vids showing how I did several of these shots:

youtube.com/​watch?v=AoCx6sOCTQE
youtube.com/​watch?v=Nxvx_LOnGhw
youtube.com/​watch?v=sVzFm_NDhyE
youtube.com/​watch?v=JGLSFSjyffU

Download iPhone video: timescapes.org/​MountainLight.mp4

Cast: Tom Lowe

Tags: timelapse, time, lapse, timescapes, yosemite, bristlecone, astro, stars, mountains, light, clouds, nature, HD and milkyway


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Timelapse: Day to Night at Joshua Tree

I shot two panning timelapses, hours apart, and blended them together very crudely.

I'm going to see if I can make the blend a little better with After Effects.

Cast: Tom Lowe

Tags: timelapse, time, lapse, panning, HD, night, stars, moon, 720p, joshua tree, desert, california and astrophotography


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