The spectacular world of Time Lapse Photography
The world is filled with enigmatic spectacles. To make a long story short, a lot of methods are employed. One of the most fascinating method is ‘Time Laspe Photography’. Time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique whereby each film frame is captured at a rate much slower than it will be played back.
For example, recording the blooming of a sunflower over a period of several days and warping the video such that it lasts just a few minutes. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. Time-lapse photography can be considered to be the opposite of high speed photography. When such phenomena happens very slowly, viewing accelerated footage helps scientists take a step back and see the big picture. At higher speeds, things that we regard as fixed take motion and even the dullest scenes spring to life. Processes that would normally appear subtle to the human eye, such as the motion of the sun and stars in the sky, become very pronounced.
Time lapse is an important part of any cinematographer. Many of the sequences in the film will contain fantastic visual feasts revealing unusual events not normally visible to the naked eye. Some classic subjects of timelapse photography include cloudscapes and celestial motion; plants growing and flowers opening; fruit rotting; evolution of a construction project; people in the city and so on. The technique has also been used to photograph crowds and traffic. The effect of photographing a subject that changes imperceptibly slowly, is to create a smooth impression of motion.
To fascinate your senses, I have chosen some of the best examples of Time Lapse Photography. Coupled with some sensational music, one cannot stop but watch them over and over again. Enjoy!
1) All Season Time Lapse by jcgrey
A wonderful and stunning high definition timelapse video that takes you through all of the seasons and shows beautiful scenery, growing wildlife, clouds, ice bergs, the midnight sun, flowers, mushroooms, and all the wonderfull things nature has to offer. The music is exquisite and offers a breathtaking insights into the beauty of nature in warp speed.
2) Thunderstorm Time Lapse by 06solareclipse
A time lapse movie of a thunderstorm development.
3) Amazing Time Lapse Video by remcobron
This is a great time lapse video of several shots in Los Angeles. The video is made by 599 Productions and they used a Canon 20D camera to do it all. What makes this video special and number 1 in the top ten is the excellent use of music. It just all comes together in an awesome way in this video
4) Nature Time Lapse by mockmoon
It is a video dome by Nagano, Gunma and Saitama from Japan using a Nikon D3 Fujifilm S5pro. They have a great use of color and show several beautiful clips of nature. The music really ties this together as well.
5) How the ‘Pavement Picasso’ does it? by pavementpicasso
A time lapse video of Julian Beever creating the Aveeno Fountain of Youth chalk drawing in Union Square, NYC. See more of his extraordinary artwork at Flickr
6) Caterpillar’s metamorphism into a butterfly by jcmegabyte
This short movie shows parts of the Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) butterfly’s life cycle in time lapse. Scenes include larvae moving around on the host plant, larva shedding its final skin to pupate (part of the metamorphosis process), and finally emerging as an adult butterfly.
7) Fast growing corn, roots and leaves by mindlapse
Time lapse sequence shot using Pentax K110D and Harbortronics DigiSnap 2100 set to take a frame each 29 minutes 45 seconds. The time lapse spans 10 days. Two 90 watt compact floresecent lights where used for both the camera shooting light and the grow lights. The lights were on for 24 hours.
8 ) Earth Rise and Set image over the moon by NnoxS3
The EarthRise image Wide Shot taken from near the North Pole, and the Arabian Peninsula and Indian Ocean can be observed on the Earth.
The Earthset image Tele Shot taken from near the South Pole, and we can see the Australian Continent (center left) and the Asian Continent (lower right) on the Earth.
9) Fire Storm by powrslaveeli
FireStorm uncovers the fascinating world of altered time to the viewer, allowing a unique look at nature’s fury. Shot with 3 cameras over a period of 28 hours during September 28-29th 2005. Firestorm shows a a unique look at the Simi Valley fire which consumed 25,000 acres. Look for Mars, Orion & the Moon rising in the distance…
10) Flowers in Growth by spiritonsound
Flowers blooming at night quite astonishingly captured for a lond period of time.
11) Tilt Shift Time Lapse Video
This video was created while on a balcony in down town Reykjavik, Iceland for 2 whole hours. 3 different lenses from a Canon 500d were used to shoot this video.
12) One year walk/beard grow Time Lapse video
Christoph Rehage spent a year walking across China. On his way, he took photos of his face every day and made this time-lapse video. These kind of videos have been around for a long time, but Rehage’s is the best I’ve seen, because of the interesting backgrounds and the way he integrates bits of moving video with the still images
13) Ants digging tunnel at 900x speed by iamsnoozin
This is a video of ants digging tunnels taken at 900x life speed. Three days of digging takes about 5 minutes
14) Shape of Things to come by 599productions
A brilliant time lapse video capturing the movement of the skies, the stars and everything else in the most spectacular moments. A really fascinating video by 599 Productions.
Further links and resources:
1) How to shoot a Time Lapse video using a DSLR
2) Time Lapse Videos of Cosmos in action
4) Hypnotic Time Lapsed Cinematography
7) Some cool time lapse videos under the CC license
8 ) HDR Time Lapsing by Nicholos Phillips
I hope you liked the selection. If you have anything that you would like to share, please do so in the comment section and I shall add them up. Good Luck!
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A New York time lapse to add to the list:
http://vimeo.com/11622149
Great collection you have here. I enjoyed the post. Thanks.
That first one, with the mushrooms, was really outstanding.
I’ll have to get to the other ones later.
Thanks for posting!
cool videos!
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