Comments on: Trey Ratcliff’s New Zealand Timelapse Is A Breathtaking Six Minute Trip to Mordor

By: Martin Beebee

Martin Beebee — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:29:00 +0000

Gorgeous scenery, but the video itself doesn’t seem like anything special. The music is pretty heavy-handed for the entire 6 minutes, so I felt like I was being beat over the head for the entire time: “You! Will! Acknowledge! That! This! Is! Amazing! Scenery!” No time to breathe. I thought the little video flashing tricks were annoying, too. What was the point?

And I have to say that I’m getting more and more impatient with folks illegally using music in their videos. Now, maybe Trey is super special and had Hans Zimmer compose the piece for him, but call me skeptical. I’m pretty sure that if my friend’s band laid down one of their songs to this video and posted it as their music video, Trey would be none too pleased.

By: james

james — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:27:00 +0000

looks like cheap CGI

By: Eric Gould

Eric Gould — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:25:00 +0000

I would love to see a little more “camera movement.” The sound track is first rate as is the image composition.

By: Marius Mariakinas

Marius Mariakinas — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:33:00 +0000

It’s not bad, but i don’t think that this was something that should have been posted on fstoppers it’s nothing special, but i did like the music.

By: Thomas Jergel

Thomas Jergel — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:22:00 +0000

I was very impressed with his timelapses, except the one at around 1:40 of the streets where he has used some sort of pixel motion interpolation to blend between exposures/frames.

By: Carsten Schlipf

Carsten Schlipf — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:21:00 +0000

Thanks to the used background music and GEMA this video is not available in Germany :-(

But I was able to watch it through this link: http://www.unblockyoutube.us/permalink.php?url=xIQ0pQ5KYfPxWSu2MueIUEqG6h4V1AQY88f71wGygrWLBdlv%2BT%2FTFH5Cp1a4SGAmVyYh47M7JirHWpklFo5Ul71f%2BuxX0lr1V71ownQTKGj%2BRBWUjuYJahEA2ukzWcFm

By: Dugdale

Dugdale — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:19:00 +0000

So did Hans Zimmer compose it for him? It sounds like they are friends.

By: Jorge Pastrana

Jorge Pastrana — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:12:00 +0000

great work!

By: Daithi Jenkins

Daithi Jenkins — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:34:00 +0000

Well, this isn’t awful. And this is coming from somebody who usually retches at the very mention of Trey Ratcliff.

That said, it is basically six minutes of clouds. There’s lots of this stuff on Vimeo.