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Epic time lapse

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:07:18 +0000

This is one of the greatest compilation of time lapses I’ve ever seen. It takes a true dedication and skill to create such bespoke footage.

Timelapse Reel# 5 from 599 Productions on Vimeo.

Nissan Cube launch video

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:03 +0000

It’s nice to know that a piece of my recent London time lapse has been used for a promo created for the launch of the new Nissan Cube.
Thanks Mav!

Nissan Cube Womb Installation Video from Neath Films on Vimeo.

New Video From A Tiny River Town

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:22:23 +0000

The biggest problem about shooting time lapses is that whenever you think you’ve had enough frames you are about 50% correct. I wish I had stayed and snapped for a bit longer but as on every Friday evening London Bridge fills up with lunatics, drunks and dodgy types who discuss robbing you in their foreign language expecting that you don’t understand them.

For this video I used still image sequences shot on Canon 5D Mark II.
I used Canon 75-300 f/4.0-5.6 lens which I certainly don’t recommend but I my case it did the job. My friend Pawel lent me his fancy programmable remote to execute continuous shutter without vibrations but since then I acquired a simple shutter release remote and I love it. I have a 16 GB CompactFlash card. It’s a SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s – slower cards might lag.

The wonderful sounds were created by Cliff Martinez.

Another time lapse in beautiful London

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:21:48 +0000

One morning Ben and I got up early, mounted my Canon 5D Mk2 on the dashboard using a hat and a piece of rubber and drove around London for 2 hours till the Sun came up. This is the result.

London on Saturday morning time lapse from Make Some Tea on Vimeo.

My latest time lapse

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:33:44 +0000

This was shot in my living room over the course of two hours, two glasses of lemonade and Spanish gin and 3 episodes of ‘That’s my Bush’ on the TV.
John is an illustrator and a comic book oligarch. Ceiling in his flat collapsed on his head recently but he now moved to a new property in North London. Please check out his works.
He also takes part in an alcohol extravaganza called Shore Leave where he plays his part as a resident sharpie tattoo artist.

Time lapse experiment

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:22:22 +0000

One Saturday morning I wanted to tidy up the back of my house a bit and film myself working and create a time lapse . Instead of shooting video I wanted to take a sequence of photos over a course of couple of hours in equal intervals. I run a simple app through my 5D Mk2, put it together and this is the result.

Notes:
Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Lens: EF 28-105mm
DSLR Remote Pro (Windows only) allows you to fully control your camera from a PC over USB cable
Edited in Final Cut Pro
Video Compressor: H.264
Frame rate: 24fps
F number: 4
ISO was set to 200 and no auto light setting. And since the weather was quite tricky that day you can see how dynamic the light was.
Next time I would set up aspect ratio of the stills to mach some video size convention as they ended up being 1680×1080. I didn’t want to crop anything afterward as I was quite happy with the composition based on three even horizontal stripes.
The script triggered the shutter every 1.8 seconds, took 4000 photos in 120 minutes.
Image setting: JPEG small/fine.
My 5D2 has a battery grip with 2 LP-E6’s fully charged. At the end of the process the battery level was at 75% – not bad. However, I had preview set to OFF and nothing showing in the display (hit INFO. button twice on your camera). Images can be saved to both PC Hard Drive or/and the camera memory card. In my case I was not able to set it to camera only application error.

Music: Kusanagi – Electro Dori.