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Bulb Ramping Tutorial Makes Complicated Timelapses Look Easy

Zach Sutton — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:11:26 +0000

Bulb ramping is a technique used by time lapse photographers to adjust the shutter speed throughout the time lapse to compensate for natural changes in exposure. If you’re looking to shoot timelapses of sunrises, sunsets or any change from day to night, this technique is critical. In his latest tutorial video, BC based photographer Joel Schat takes us through the steps needed in order to create a bulb ramping time lapse with ease. [more]

International Earth & Sky Photo Contest Winners Announced

Aaron Lindberg — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:57:40 +0000

Winners of the 4th International Earth and Sky Photo Contest, hosted by The World at Night (TWAN), were announced this week with some awe inspiring photographs.

TWAN is an international effort to photograph nightscape and time-lapse videos of the world’s landmarks. According to TWAN’s website “The contest was founded by TWAN and Dark Skies Awareness project in 2008 as a regional [more]

Time & Google Timelapse 30 Years Of Satellite Photography

Aaron Lindberg — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:47:00 +0000

Time and Google have created an astounding, multi-decade animated timelapse of the Earth. It is nothing short of amazing the amount of satellite photographs that has been collected and crunched. Trillions of pixels of satellite data which until now, have not been available to the public. Locations around the Earth can be searched and viewed through the latest project Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images. [more]

Get A Free Lesson In Timelapse From Vincent Laforet

Mike Wilkinson — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:18:47 +0000

DSLR Video pioneer Vincent Laforet partnered with Canon to create a 4 part instructional video series where he shares many great tips for getting started with shooting timelapse sequences. He takes viewers with him on a shoot in Bryce Canyon and explains his setup, and also goes in to detail on: finding a subject matter, lens selection, how to calculate properly to get enough frames, using intervalometers, and so much more. This is loaded with tons of great tips, a must watch if you do any timelapse work. [more]

“Polar Spirits” A Visually Stunning Timelapse Of The Northern Lights

Thomas Ingersoll — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 02:08:02 +0000

Ole C. Salomonsen shot this beautiful edit of the northern lights. “The video is shot using stills and assembled together for best possible resolution and dynamic range. In this video however, for the first time, I have also chosen to include some real-time video footage. This is to better show how furiously fast and beautiful the polar spirits can dance! The two sequences which are shot in real-time (in the middle of the video) could never have been recreated using still photos, regardless what camera you are using.” [more]

Incredible Time Lapse Shows Off New Zealand’s Northern Island

Patrick Gensel — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:19:49 +0000

I am a sucker for beautifully coordinated time-lapse projects. There is something about well chosen music, paired with beautiful moving images that evokes an feeling of emotion in me. I love to visit far away places, and when done right, a good time lapse film does wonders to bring you front and center to a far off land.
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This Street View Hyperlapse Is The Coolest Thing You Will See This Month

Mike Kelley — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:39:30 +0000

Yes, that is a bold claim, but hear me out. Sometimes something so creative yet so painfully simple comes along and just blows me away. This timelapse/hyperlapse video created using Google Street View is just one of those things. My mouth was agape the entire time I was watching this. Teehan+Lax Labs created this project by recording Google Street View movements all over the world and [more]

Ever Wonder What The Radio Frequency Spectrum Looks Like? Press Play And Find Out.

Thomas Ingersoll — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:17:15 +0000

It is always inspiring when when we are able to view things unseen by the human eye. Thanks to Jean-Pierre Aube, we are able to see the radiofrequency spectrum. The radiofrequency spectrum is at the heart of telecommunications, used by police, emergency personnel and public transport services, as well as the armed forces. [more]

Timelapse From Space Will Leave You Humbled

Thomas Ingersoll — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:10:25 +0000

Man (or woman) can only dream what it looks like hovering above earth watching the beauty of science orbit beneath them. Thanks to the ISS (International Space Station) we have the next best thing, a timelapse. “Some interesting tidbits about the ISS. It orbits the planet about once every 90 mins and is about 350 Km/217 miles. The yellow/greenish line that you see over the earth is Airgolw. All footage has been color graded, denoised, deflickered, slowed down and stabilized by Bruce W. Berry. Clips were then complied and converted to 1080 HD at 24 frames/sec. Read on to learn what cameras they use and more info about the ISS” [more]

100,000 Photo Timelapse of NYC!

Corey Melton — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:12:56 +0000

Samuel Orr is a film maker from Bloomington, IN. He created this beautiful 4 minute long timelapse of NYC titled ‘A New York Day’ from over 100,000 photos and from dozens of locations. This video is just a fraction of a much longer timelapse film, which he hopes will be around 25 minutes once it is finished. He has created a Kickstarter for ‘New York Year’ which explains more about the film and shows other work that he has done. Enjoy!