Awesome night timelapse of European monuments

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jdeg

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[video=vimeo;71501596]http://vimeo.com/71501596[/video]

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I'm not quite sure how he got so much movement out of some of the shots. Obviously the camera was either on a vehicle or some kind of rail. But how do you carry that around to 36 cities?
 
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Carolina Photo Guy

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jdeg said:
[video=vimeo;71501596]http://vimeo.com/71501596[/video]

More info: Luke Shepard

I'm not quite sure how he got so much movement out of some of the shots. Obviously the camera was either on a vehicle or some kind of rail. But how do you carry that around to 36 cities?
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If his camera were mounted on a golf bag cart and a piece of tape to mark one revolution of the wheel, it would be fairly simple. Remember, this is nothing more than shoot a still, move a measured distance and repeat. A hell of a lot of repeat, but the end result would be very similar.
The bag cart would maintain the height of the camera body and the tape on the wheel would maintain the consistancy of the distance between shots.
At least, thats how I would do it.
I think!
​BWTHDIK?
 
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Blade Canyon

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That was good. The clock on Big Ben shows how patient you have to be to pull this off. That 12 second clip took 80 minutes to shoot (from 53 seconds to 1:05 on the timeline). At 30 fps, that's one shot every 13.3 seconds. At 50 fps, it's one shot every 8 seconds.

As for camera movement, check out what member pettypoh was able to achieve just by moving the pan/tilt and tripod manually while creating a timelapse:

http://nikonites.com/d3100/15326-1s...minent-landmarks-singapore.html#axzz2bTm5Y9eW
 
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BackdoorArts

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This is obviously no one's first attempt at something like this. This guy has done a lot of these and knows what he's doing. Very impressive.

The shots of Big Ben show more than simple verticle or horizontal panning but also involve raising the camera from a lower to higher shooting height, so a complex rig is definitely involved. If the guy is a pro then he's likely got a helper or 3 around him to aid in making sure everything goes according to plan. He ran a Kickstarter campaign, which likely helped with both travel costs and equipment (some of the lenses alone, Zeiss 18mm f/3.5, Zeiss 21mm f/2.8, Zeiss 25mm f/2, Zeiss 35mm f/1.4, ain't nothing to sneeze at), so it was well thought out and flawlessly executed. Not sure what the bonus was for donating to the cause, but the results are great.
 
Fred Kingston

Fred Kingston

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Looks like he's a student... Goto his Facebook page... He's only got 4 videos... Apparently the one posted here was a Kickstarter project?
 
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PapaST

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That looks spectacular. M83's (it's either the Outro or Intro) song works well with timelapse videos. Here's one of Yosemite. I like the details you can see like climbers on rock a face with headlamp on or the wind blowing waterfalls. The stars moving along with what I'm guessing are airplanes are very dramatic as well.

Yosemite HD on Vimeo
 
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Billy Y.

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BackdoorHippie said:
The shots of Big Ben show more than simple verticle or horizontal panning but also involve raising the camera from a lower to higher shooting height, so a complex rig is definitely involved. If the guy is a pro then he's likely got a helper or 3 around him to aid in making sure everything goes according to plan.
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I think he just zoomed in, rather than raising the camera higher. Or if no zoom he slowly got closer and started to pan up.
 
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BackdoorArts

BackdoorArts

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According to the captions on Facebook it was all done on a tripod (Manfrotto 055CXPRO4) and moved manually between shots using string and other things to help guide the shots.

I think you're right about the zoom, Billy. I missed the zoom lens at the bottom of his list - the rest are all fixed focal length.
 
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