Majestic Time-lapse Landscapes Will Blow You Away - Arizona/Utah

by Charlie White

from http://mashable.com/

This spellbinding video is by master photographer and time-lapse creator Dustin Farrell, who took a Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR and created an awe-inspiring work of art.

In his latest work, “Landscapes Volume Two,” the Arizona photographer has elevated the artform to the highest level, using motion control and HDR (High Dynamic Range) techniques to reveal an unseen world of landscapes in Arizona and Utah, where space takes on a different meaning when he’s altered time. It’s set to the music of John Murphy’s “Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor).”

Specifically, how does Farrell create this magic? He says on his Vimeo site, “Every clip is a RAW image sequence (5616 x 3744) that I rendered out as a 1080p 23.976fps QuickTime movie. The motion control is achieved using servo motors.”

Sounds complicated, but that’s only half the work. After he shoots the images, he places them in Adobe After Effects, a professional video compositing program, where he says he “stacks” the clips, allowing the thousands of images to play back, drastically sped up for our viewing pleasure.

This guy is one of the foremost time-lapse experts in the world. Take a look at how he accomplishes these feats in greater detail here. By the way, Dustin urges you to watch these sequences in HD, full screen with sound.

Want to see more? Here’s Dustin’s “Landscapes Volume One,” representing a year of his time-lapse work:

[via Gizmodo]

Carving up the record books: Watch mammoth pumpkin grow from seed to super-size in amazing time-lapse By

Daily Mail Reporter
From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk

There have been warnings of a pumpkin shortage in the northeastern states of the U.S. after hundreds of patches were destroyed by Hurricane Irene.

And it could not have come at a worst time as the much-celebrated Halloween season approaches.


But one grower in Connecticut has produced a monster gourd that may just be big enough to go round the whole region.

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Gourd almighty! The mammoth pumpkin in Ken Desrosiers' patch

Despite the summer's hostile weather, Ken Desrosiers has nurtured a new record-breaking pumpkin weighing in at 1,487.5lbs - as much as a small car.

He began growing the whopper at the end of June and recorded its transformation by setting up a camera to take photographs every 15 minutes, creating a time-lapse video.

Humble beginnings: The apple-sized pumpkin starts to take shape

Pumped: Mr Desrosiers places a can next to his fruit to highlight its size

Smashing pumpkin: This record-breaker was spared the fate of thousands of others which perished in Hurricane Irene

Would make one mighty Jack O'Lantern: The pumpkin is covered for protection ahead of harvesting

His pumpkin was weighed at the Durham Fair last Wednesday and came in 40lbs heavier than the state's previous record-holder.

But it still falls short of the world's largest, which tipped the scales last year at just over 1,800lbs.


Chris Stevens, from New Richmond, Wisconsin, used seaweed, cow manure and fish emulsion to grow his gargantuan specimen. 

Celebration: The treasured pastime of carving pumpkins will soon be upon us, but the northeastern states have been warned to expect a shortage of the fruit as a result of Hurricane Irene

What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?

Full article here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2038854/Time-lapse-images-International-Space-Station-earth-night.html

Uploaded by yesterday2221 on Sep 15, 2011

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy. Raw data was downloaded from;

The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth
"http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/mrf.htm ".

Virtualdub was used to create the final movie.

You can see more beautiful images of our universe at my blog;
http://infinity-imagined.tumblr.com/

Get Blown Away By This Architectural Music Light Show

Kelly Hodgkins

From: http://gizmodo.com/

— I love what happens when you put technology in the hands of very creative people like André Chocron. Using only time-lapse photography, the Norwegian director created one of the best music light shows I've seen.

Chorcon filmed old apartment buildings in Oslo, Norway and used the lights in each room as the medium for his light show. He captured each building using time-lapse photography taken at night. Using this technique, he was able to get pictures of each room with the lights on and off. He then used a computer to map the lights in a pattern to the tune "Time is of the essence" by Cold Mailman. If you have no idea what this means, watch the video and it will all make sense. The results are simply amazing. [Fast Company]

Cold mailman - Time is of the essence from André Chocron on Vimeo.

Official music video for Cold Mailman - "Time is of the essence". This is a shortened version of the song. The original song is available on their critically acclaimed second album "Relax; the mountain will come to you" . For more info about Cold Mailman, visit coldmailman.com/​

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Director and animator: André Chocron
Director of photography: Audun Magnæs
Colorist: Camilla Holst Vea at Storyline Studios
Conform: Raymond Gangstad

Cast:
Haugenstua brl
Vestlitoppen brl
Tveita brl
Solfjellet brl
Ammerudlia brl

Supported by Groruddalssatsningen: prosjekt-groruddalen.oslo.kommune.no/​

Thank you:
Roy Tjomsland, Hallvar Witzø, Raymond Gangstad, Johannes Dahl, Kari Andresen, Jon Erik Berger, Gunnar Paulsen, Veronica Skaret

Very Large Telescope, Very Stunning Time Lapse Video

 From:
Oh, what the heck. After posting the video earlier showing the Earth rotating around the sky, I might as well show you the original video, since it really is so beautiful. This time lapse shows the sky spinning over the Very Large Telescope observatory in Chile, one of the finest observatories in one of the darkest sites on the planet.

[Set the resolution to 720p to see it properly unenpixelated.]

A couple of things I want to point out: at 1:10 into the video, you see the Milky Way rising majestically over the mountains, and you can see a faint, whitish glow stretching diagonally across the field of view, at an angle to the galaxy. That’s called the zodiacal light, and is caused by the reflection of sunlight by dust in the plane of our solar system. It’s probably due to eons of collisions grinding asteroids into dust; they tend to orbit the Sun in the same plane as the planets. It’s actually a disk of dust, but since we’re in it, we see it as a line across the sky. It’s pretty faint, and you need dark skies to spot it.

I also love the shots of the observatories shooting orange lasers out their domes (here’s a gorgeous hi-res photo of it). They’re fending off attacks by the Goa’uld, Ori, and Wraith using those to help counteract atmospheric distortion; the laser hits a layer of sodium atoms high in the atmosphere and causes them to glow. This creates a bright artificial star in the telescope’s view, which jiggles and wiggles as the atmosphere roils. The way the "star" moves can be counteracted by the telescope, sharpening up the image it makes. This tech, called adaptive optics, has revolutionized high-resolution ground-based astronomy. It has also given the VLT the ability to make incredibly sharp and gorgeous images; see for yourself.

Don’t forget to watch the companion video to this, too. It’ll change your perspective. Literally.
Video credit: Stéphane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado/ESO.

Video of puppy growing to adult in 40 seconds becomes cute YouTube hit

By Daily Mail Reporter

This short video shows a dog growing from eight-weeks old to one-year old in only 40 seconds.

The YouTube clip shows pictures on the same spot of Dunder the German Shepherd over a period of ten months and has become an Internet sensation.
The time lapse video was uploaded on May 19 and has already attracted nearly 700,000 hits.


Scroll down to see the video

Happy birthday: Dunder the German Shepherd reaches one, having been photographed from eight-weeks old

In the video Dunder is shown as a tiny puppy obediently looking at a camera on what looks like a family kitchen floor.

As the video filters though more pictures as he grows up the floor become more and more dirty.

But Dunder is growing quickly and the days of him as a cute puppy are soon gone.
Occasionally

children's feet and even another dog can be seen in the images, which
become increasingly more humorous as time goes on.

Tiny: As a puppy Dunder is so small (and the floor is clean) - this is the beginning of the series of pictures

A bit bigger: The German Shepherd is shown with his tongue out, but still looks a little unsteady on his feet

Bigger dog: Looking firmly at the camera Dunder gets taller and stronger all the time

Big dog: As Dunder approaches his first birthday he begins to look more like an adult dog

The dog can be seen wearing various items of clothing, too, and when his birthday comes around the photographer holds up the number one and Dunder poses with a birthday hat on his head.

One YouTube poster called Dupalle said: 'I just can't decide wether (sic) this is more awesome, cute or funny!!

'Definitely made my day though! Thanks for sharing!'

Woof customer: The dog is dressed up in all manner of costumes - but it's only when you slow the film down that you can see the outfits

Props: Dunder is handed what looks like a brush - and he is surrounded by his own fur

Amazing Time-Lapse Of Marilyn Monroe Painting

From: http://haphappy.com/
Check out this awesome time-lapse video from artist Lord Colin O’Neal. Not only is the video itself impressive (with a great track by Marilyn Monroe herself) but the resulting painting is phenomenal. It looks like he did this all in just two days time.

It’s talent like this that makes me extremely jealous. I wish more than anything I had abilities like this. I would do nothing more than paint art in my studio day in and day out. I love his little additional things, like toasting his wall buddy.

The best ever time lapse videos

By Asylum Staff

Speeding up time can make even the most mundane events seem interesting. Take, for example, watching paint dry. See?

Erik Solheim also demonstrated time-lapse's ability to amaze by fast-forwarding through the changing seasons in his backyard.


He snapped a picture of the same exact spot every 30 minutes for an entire year and ending up with 16,000 photos. He then edited down his images to 3,500 and set them to a video, showing a whole year passing in just two minutes. (Spoiler alert: There's snow and falling leaves.)

Keep reading for this and more incredible time-lapse videos of otherwise boring circumstances.




Still life becomes still death, as a decaying bucket of fruit and veggies is photographed every 40 minutes over a 74-day period:




Taking us through the life cycle of a moustache, we see a clean-shaven man go from beard to goatee to soul patch to fu manchu to something resembling a unnervingly attentive geography teacher in just 45 seconds:






From this famous New Yorker story comes the time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours. He spends his time pacing and climbing around the lift, playing with the contents of his wallet and sleeping -- until the very end when he can't take it anymore and frees himself by sawing off his arm with a pocket knife. Oh, wait. That's a different story.






In 25 seconds, a girl named Natalie ages from infancy to 10 years. You can almost feel the pre-teen annoyance developing.






A dead gecko becomes an all-you-can-eat buffet for some ravenous ants, who are clearly not picky in the least:

Time-Lapse Of The White House Christmas Tree

Posted by Lawrence Jackson 

 

 

Download Video: mp4 (33.4MB) 

 

My boss, Chief White House Photographer Pete Souza, and I talked about how we could show all of the work and energy that’s put into decorating the White House for the holidays. A time-lapse seemed like a good way to present the progression, change and finished product. We decided on the official White House Christmas Tree in the Blue Room of the White House. Delivered by horse-drawn carriage, the Douglas fir stands more than ten feet high and is nearly thirteen feet wide – it’s truly the centerpiece of all the decorations. In four and a half days of shooting, the time-lapse camera took a total of 6,078 images.

I set my digital camera and 16-35 mm lens on a tripod with two weights on it to keep it from moving too much. In the first two days, the camera was set to fire two times per minute and was bumped up to three frames per minute during the last two and half days. Our White House Photo Office intern Spencer Millsap put it all together with video editing software, making it a fun and fast-paced multimedia piece.

There’s also funny moment with the White House electricians. Since they handle all things electrical – they installed the lights on the Christmas Tree before any of the other decorations were placed on the tree. So, I’ve got pictures of the guys installing the lights and when they’re done they gather around the tree for a group shot. You see these guys in a flurry getting the tree ready, in one frame they’re posing with big smiles on their faces, and in the very next frame they’re gone!

Lawrence Jackson is an Official White House Photographer

Awesome timelapse video: Rapture

From: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/

Tom Lowe is an amazing photographer who makes devastating, astonishing timelapse videos of the night sky. Once again, he does not disappoint. Here’s your must-see video of the day: Rapture.

TimeScapes: Rapture from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

Make sure it’s set to HD, make it full screen, and turn your speakers up. I suggest letting the video buffer get well ahead, too, so it doesn’t skip.

Rapture is a paean to the American Southwest, one of my favorite regions on the planet. But the video’s loaded with gorgeous, sensuous astronomical skyscapes as well. Tom takes time exposures long enough to register faint night sky objects, but at the same time uses slow tracking to move the camera. The superposition of the ground and sky motion is simply mesmerizing. The music by Nigel "John" Stanford is incredibly compelling, too.

How many deep-sky objects can you identify in the video? The Andromeda Galaxy makes a brief appearance, and when the hub of the Milky Way slides across the sky, it’s awesome to behold.

Tom is the real thing. You should also check out his "Death Is the Road to Awe", a similar timelapse video.

Simply incredible. There is such beauty out there, and such gifted artists who can capture it and show it to us.

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My thanks to Tom for giving me the heads-up on this. Follow him on Twitter for more information about his amazing work.

Time Lapse Video Shows Work on 9/11 Memorial

By KARI PATEY
From: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/

Those going down to Ground Zero for the 9/11 memorial services may notice just how much the area has changed in the last year.

To see how much work is done down there in just one day, an MSNBC.com photojournalist documented 24 hours of manpower on the site.

John Makely set up five cameras to illustrate the vast construction project.

His time-lapse video combines more than 10,000 separate images.

A timelapsed braces usage: Straight teeths in under 49 sec.

Stellar DSLR Time Lapse of a Space Shuttle Launch

From: http://gizmodo.com/

Six weeks, and over 100 hours of footage shot on several Canon EOS 5D Mark IIs culminates in this remarkable, 4-minute time lapse of a Space Shuttle launch. [Air&Space via Planet5D]

Send an email to Mark Wilson, the author of this post, at mark@gizmodo.com.

Beautiful Time-Lapse Music Video

Posted by tobypast

From http://www.motherboard.tv/

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If you haven’t yet seen the lovely music video for Stomacher – Untitled/Dark Divider by Sean Stiegemeier, take the 4 minutes from your day to do so. Over a year’s worth of gorgeous time-lapse video taken on his travels to Prague, Japan, Banff, Utah, Oregon, California, and more, the video and the music blend seamlessly together for a soothing, visually stunning experience that will blow your mind.

I look forward to more from this director/DP, and if you like the track, the album is available for free download here as well: http://stomachermusic.com/

25 Beautiful Examples of Action Sequence Photography | Inspiration

Sequence photography is a technique of shooting a series of images in where the subject is captured in successive motion. Sequence photography is a wonderful way of conveying motion in a static image. A merged photo sequence can radically show a different perspective much more than what can be captured in a single image.

When you’re creating a sequence photo make sure you get all the action you need. This can be done by choosing shooting a moving. Make sure you have a camera that able to do high shutter speeds. A DSRL that can shoot 3-5fps can get you great results. Then set the camera up on a sturdy tripod so displacement between frames. Then determine the exposure and multiply by the quantity of frames you are going to shoot. Another way would be to quickly shoot a series of separate frames and merged them all together later with the help of photoshop. Below are some truly amazing examples of sequence photography. We hope you enjoy them.

Click here to enjoy this fabulous article and gallery: 25 Beautiful Examples of Action Sequence Photography | Inspiration

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta Time Lapse

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Watch hundreds of hot air balloons take to the sky at the 2009 Albuquerque international balloon fiesta. These time-lapses are shot with a 12 mega pixel digital single lens reflex cameras. Original...

Watch hundreds of hot air balloons take to the sky at the 2009 Albuquerque international balloon fiesta. These time-lapses are shot with a 12 mega pixel digital single lens reflex cameras. Original resolution is 6 times better then HD (high definition). The images have been resized for HD and are much better quality then shown here on YouTube. Video clips are for sale. For more information contact us at TimeLapseHD@hotmail.com. Thanks and enjoy!

Milky Way over the Alps (Stunning Timelapse VID)

Timelapse movie: The Alps -- part II (night) from Michael Rissi on Vimeo.

One year in 90 seconds

From: eirikso.com  - The personal web site of Eirik Solheim

Link to the video in HD on YouTube.
If you like these videos then follow me on twitter: @eirikso – and you’ll be the first to know about other projects that I might do.

The story

All through 2008 I snapped still images from the same spot on my balcony to make a sort of time lapse video showing one year passing by. The video was hugely successful and has close to two million views on YouTube in addition to about one million on Vimeo and hundreds of thousands of views and downloads from other web sites.

Last year I bought a new camera. The Canon 5D Mark II. In addition to excellent quality stills you can also shoot HD video with that camera. So I decided to do the same thing all over again. But this time I recorded 30 second video clips each time. My idea was that it would be possible to dissolve between the videos to get the same kind of time lapse effect, but this time with motion all the way. Snow falling, wind blowing etc.
2009 is over and I have now put all the clips I recorded through the year into a couple of videos.
I recorded clips with a 15mm fisheye, a 24mm wide angle and a 50mm lens. I’ve made three different versions. The first one is the one at the top of this article. Shot with the 15mm fisheye and “defished” using Fisheye Hemi in Photoshop. To do that I exported the video as an image sequence and did a batch job in Photoshop to run the fisheye hemi filter and some cropping.
The 50mm gives a closer look at the trees and I decided to make a longer video that gives a better view of how nature evolves with that footage. I ended up with 120 seconds.

Link to the video in HD on YouTube.
The last video is a version from the 24mm footage. That’s the short one. One year in 60 seconds…

Link to the video in HD on YouTube.

Download the full quality versions through BitTorrent:

I’ll publish all the videos in full quality as soon as they have finished encoding. Check back here in a day or two and the text below will turn into links to the torrent files…
24 mm – One Year in 60 seconds (1920×1080 30P)
50 mm – One Year in 120 seconds (1920×1080 30P)
15 mm – One Year in 90 seconds (1280×720 30P)
How To-video (english) (1920×1080 30P)
How To-video (norwegian) (1920×1080 30P)

How did you do it?

The way I did it is actually quite simple. I found a spot on my balcony where I could place the camera in the exact same spot each time. Then I recorded video clips at irregular intervals. More or less once a week all thorugh 2009. More often during spring and autumn and not that often during summer and winter. All the videos are then put together using lots of dissolves.
It’s easier to explain the process in a video, so here it is:

Link to the video in HD on YouTube.

The audio

The sound was simply recorded with the Canon 5D Mark II as well. And left as it was recorded on all the clips in the video.

Can I use the videos in my projects?

Yes. All the videos are licensed with a Creative Commons License. To be exact: by attribution, share alike, non commercial.

This work by Eirik Solheim is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Norway License.

But what about commercial use?

If you want to use the video commercially. Or want a copy without the eirikso-bug in the corner or something else. Please contact me at:
eirikso (at) eirikso (dot) com

Where was this filmed?

In Oslo, Norway

I don’t believe you, this is fake.

If you think the video was made in post production using fancy graphics software… Well, that’s your problem. Not mine.

I want to make something amazing from the raw clips

Contact me, and we’ll see what we can do.

Coachella Time-Lapse: Everything Happening at the Same Time

Ever wondered what a giant, sprawling, three-day music festival in the desert would look like if it were nano-crammed into five minutes? Boing Boing presents a cool timelapse of the 2009 Coachella Music and Arts Festival (www.coachella.com) directed by filmmaker Ray Klein (www.rayklein.com).

The music you hear is "Everything is Happening At The Same Time," by Hawke, courtesy of Eighth Dimension Records. (http://www.eighthdimension.com). His new record, +++, is availa

HGTV has a new Dream Home. Here's how they're building it.

hgtvpro.com — HGTV's newest Dream Home is in Sandia Park, New Mexico. They're setting up a time-lapse camera so you can watch it go up.

click here to see the action: Here's how they're building it.