Remarkable time-lapse videos, using 5DII camera

DQE · Post by **DQE** » Tue May 17, 2011 8:39 am

This video was recently featured on the Astronomy Photo of the Day site, and seems to be going at least semi-viral.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110516.html

I can't imagine how much work must have gone into making and editing this time-lapse video.

Here's an announcement for a qualitatively similar pair of 5DII videos, described in the Canon EOS e-zine:

"EOS 5D Mark II Time Lapse video

A dramatic and beautiful Time Lapse video has been created by Terje Sorgjerd. Entitled 'The Mountain', the sequences were shot on an EOS 5D Mark II on El Teide, Spain's highest mountain."

http://vimeo.com/22439234

Also see the aurora time-lapse video at this same link.

[edit: be sure and watch these videos in full-screen mode, accessed by clicking a symbol in I think the lower right corner of the playing video]

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Tue May 17, 2011 9:17 am

Spectacular!

Not only is the thing time lapsed, but several scenes were apparently shot with some sort of motorized dolly that moves the camera so as to change foreground/background perspective.

--Rik

DQE · Post by **DQE** » Tue May 17, 2011 10:16 am

Now we need to challenge our most extreme macro shooters (you know who you are!) to make a stereo 3D pair, focus-stacked, time-lapsed, panorama, HDR, lighting-stacked, whatever macro photo! (insert friendly grins here)

It just keeps getting ever more complex, more and more sophisticated, and more remarkable and enjoyable in so many ways...

ChrisR · Post by **ChrisR** » Tue May 17, 2011 4:35 pm

I've been watching these things for a while now. The dollies they use aren't far off jumbo stacking rails, with pan and tilt and zoom as the camera moves. There's couple of pictures showing them lower on the second page linked above. The surprising thing to me was that you need long exposures to avoid the sequence looking jerky.

Of course if you have a copy stand with a calibrated column, ( or an adapted old enlarger) you have a dolly. Several companies make automated ones.

Tim Allen did a number for the Life on Earth series. There's some explanation etc starting here
http://timothyallen.blogs.bbcearth.com/ ... otography/
If you watch to the end of the short "blooper" film there's a couple of links worth following.
The vid at the bottom of the page has unfortunately been blocked, but it might be available elsewhere.

SONYNUT · Post by **SONYNUT** » Tue May 17, 2011 5:55 pm

just one of my setups...

this one is motorized pan..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quJajv-NqG8

DQE · Post by **DQE** » Tue May 17, 2011 7:03 pm

It's interesting how much interest having a dolly to smoothly move the camera adds to these videos. In a way, it's just providing additional psychological support for "suspending disbelief" in that when one looks around at a scene it sort of looks like this rather than a rigidly fixed static frame.