This Time Lapse video blew me away. A full description of it from the Tenerife based photographer Daniel Lopez is included below. Enjoy!
“El Cielo de Canarias” / “Canary Sky”
Project produced by Daniel Lopez. www.elcielodecanarias.com
Scenes taken from Tenerife, more than 2,000 meters above sea level and over a year to capture all possible shades, clouds, stars, colors from a unique landscape and from one of the best skies on the planet. First in a series of videos nocturnal and crepuscular Time Lapse taken in the Canary Islands trying to capture the beauty of each island.
To capture the natural movement of the earth, stars, clouds, sun and moon TimeLapse technique was used, Dolly vertical and horizontal rails, spindles with horizontal and vertical movements. HDR data collection.
Some scenes of the video:
– “The Cathedral” in the plain of Ucanca, night shot with the planet Jupiter across the scene. – El Arbol de Piedra (Roque Cinchado) with a Tajinaste pointing to Polaris. – Tajinastes “night”, The Red Tajinaste, endemism Canario blooming in spring. – The “hat” in the Teide. Formation of a cloud known as cap at the peak of Teide. – “Waterfalls of clouds crossing the mountains and rivers of multicolored clouds. – Sea of clouds crashing against the mountains as it did the sea. – Large pool of water in the plain of Ucanca lenticular clouds where stars are reflected. – Tajinastes night with the Milky Way taken out on the horizon with a dolly track. – Video of the sun setting and a double green flash. “ – Pleiades and the Andromeda galaxy between rocks in the mines of San Jose. – Scenes spectacular sunset in the Teide National Park with clouds and moving dolly. – ArcoIris from the Teide National Park. – Multicolor Halos around the moon. – Clouds remain stationary hours at the site are changing their colors as the sunset
Daniel Lopez is a photographer / astrophotographer based in Tenerife . Works by photography and video, specializing in evening using many techniques, from camera tripod grasp heaven and earth in the same photo, amateur telescopes to take pictures of astronomical objects to professional telescopes to capture details and high resolution. It also performs and produces videos about nature, landscapes and interesting places in the draw is always something new and take another different view and “magical.”
Bladerunner is my all-time favourite Sci-Fi film and soundtrack. There are so many moments in it and the whole feel of the film is very emotive for me.
That’s why I was delighted to discover the video below from quality film maker François Vautier on Vimeo.
An explanation of how he did this is included below too, but if you want to see the video in its full glory take the HD link to Vimeo and watch it full screen. It is amazing and probably the best Bladerunner tribute I have ever seen.
An experimental film in tribute to Ridley Scott’s legendary film “Blade Runner” (1982) This film was made as a unique picture with a resolution of 60.000 x 60.000 pixels (3.6 gigapixels) It was made with 167,819 frames from ‘Blade Runner’.
1>first step : the “picture” of the film I extracted the 167,819 frames from ‘Blade Runner’ (final cut version,1h51mn52s19i) then I assembled all these images to obtain one gigantic image of colossal dimensions : a square of approximately 60,000 pixels on one side alone, 3.5 gigapixels (3500 million pixels)
2> second step : an illusion I placed a virtual camera above this big picture. So what you see is like an illusion, because contrary to appearances there is only one image. It is in fact the relative movement of the virtual camera flying over this massive image which creates the animated film, like a film in front of a projector.
I have wanted to experiment with off-Camera Flash for ages but I always thought you needed 2, 3 or even 4 of them to make a decent shot and at £350+ per unit, I had given up on the idea. Having seen this video from Derrick Story, I now know that very decent results are achievable with just one, albeit still very expensive, Flash unit and a great deal of talent.
I still can’t afford to buy one, but this has made me even more interested in saving up and scouring eBay for a decent secondhand Canon 580 EXII or whatever it will be called by the time I finally get one. I can dream…
Part of my job is to explain why we need to backup our data, and whilst it is very hard to appreciate why you should go to all the effort when the chances of data loss are relatively small, the chance is there, and ever present with the increased amount of digital data that we are storing nowadays.
Chase Jarvis is a really amazing visual artist. As well as being a top notch Photographer/Media producer, he is also a great Teacher/Instructor and, unlike many professional photographers in days gone by, he loves to share the secrets behind what he does to get the results. I have learnt a lot from Chase and his team and been inspired in the past by their practical approach to Photography, but also the artistic side too.
In the video below Chase, and his (very professional) team, show us how their workflow has been setup, from capturing the shot/video through to final storage and output via backup processes for servers and individual machines. It is something to aspire to and is based on a full-on professional studio, but the principles of redundant backups, off-site backups and individual machines with Time Machine running (giving hourly versions of files), are useful to anybody.
If you have ever been unfortunate enough to lose cherished photos of moments that can never be repeated (I have) then you will know how painful and time consuming, (not to mention expensive!) data recovery can be.
It is vitally important to have a solid backup policy in place. At the very least it should include an on-site daily backup, copied to an off-site/online location of your key data.
Please, take the time to watch this very stylish and informative video, even if you have just a passing interest. One day you might be very thankful you did. And if you have any data loss horror stories feel free to leave a comment and share the pain.
Remember: With data loss, it is not if it is WHEN!
I can’t swim. I have tried to learn, several times, but my confidence in the water has been shattered. Yet, I live by the Sea, I love to be near the Sea, and it scares and fascinates me in equal measure.
That is why I love this video. I can only imagine what it must feel like to be amongst such powerful waves with any amount of confidence, let alone have enough composure to take photographs and produce such great results.
The images in this video are gorgeous and awe inspiring because of the power of the Sea demonstrated in them but also the moments in time that photographer Mark Tipple has captured. Have a look at Mark’s site for some more stunning documentary photography, and I recommend watching this video in HD at fullscreen size if you can.
This is the second of a two part post about the Pro HDR app for the iPhone. In this post I include some examples of what the app can do, and talk about why I like it and bought it.
In the first part of this two-parter I talked about how the Pro HDR iPhone app by eyeappsllc looks and works. In this second part I wanted to include a few examples and show what the app could do with the photos fed into it. More
Can you really do HDR on the iPhone? I take a look at the Pro HDR app and provide some examples of what it can do, so you can see for yourself before buying. Short version: I like it! Read on to see why.
A few days ago I saw a Tweet linking to a photo and it included a ProHDR hashtag. I viewed the photo and thought it looked good, but my interest was piqued by exploring the hashtag further on Twitter. The results that some people had achieved were quite impressive. So I thought I would have a go at creating an HDR type photo on the iPhone myself. I enjoyed the process so much and was impressed enough with the results that I was inspired to blog it and share the results here with you, dear reader. More
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