Beautiful Time Lapse Video

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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.”

www.elcielodecanarias.com

 

The Best Bladerunner Tribute Ever Seen

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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.

BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels from françois vautier on Vimeo.

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.

Vimeo embeds finally work on iPhone/iPad

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Well, that’s the hope anyway. This post is a test to see if it is true that embeds from the wonderful and much-classier-than-YouTube video sharing site Vimeo, actually do work on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Let me know in the comments if it doesn’t work for you:

shinya kimura @ chabott engineering from Henrik Hansen on Vimeo.

*Update* Had to change the video as it looks like there has to be a mobile version created especially, or at least, the original video by my friend James Burland (see the original here) didn’t work on my iPhone.