Vimeo: 'Nightfall' is a three minute tour of light through the City of Angels.
I shot "Nightfall" in an attempt to capture Los Angeles as it transitioned from day to night. As you probably know, LA is an expansive city so shooting it from many different angles was critical. Usually I was able to capture just one shot per day with a lot of driving, exploring, and scouting in between but the times sitting in traffic or a "sketchy" neighborhood often lead to new adventures and interesting places.
Nightfall in particular is my favorite time to shoot time lapse. Capturing the transition from day to night while looking back at the city as the purple shadow of Earth envelopes the eastern skyline and the warm distant twinkling halogen lights spark to life and give the fading sun a run for her money- this will never grow old or boring to me.
In this piece, it was important to me for the shots to both capture and accentuate the movement of light through the day and night and the use of multiple motion control techniques allowed me to do so.
I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed creating it.
NightFall by Colin Rich
Music: M83, "Echoes of Mine" off of 'Hurry Up, We're Dreaming.' Available from Mute Records, EMI Music
Cinematography, Direction, and Editing by: Colin Rich: facebook.com/colinrich1
Produced by Pacific Star Productions pacstarpro.com
A big thanks to Matthews MSE (msegrip.com) especially to Bob Kulesh, Tyler & Ed Phillips for their generous support and patience of this lengthy endeavor. Most of the linear motion control shots were captured using their FloatCam DC Slider, a wonderful piece of engineering for the time lapse world.
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ponceleonsays...Anyone have any idea how he does the tracking with the time-lapse photography? It is clearly not just cropping, the camera is moving in some of those shots...
Mookalsays...>> ^ponceleon:
Anyone have any idea how he does the tracking with the time-lapse photography? It is clearly not just cropping, the camera is moving in some of those shots...
Floatcam slider:
http://www.abelcine.com/store/Matthews-Floatcam-DC-Slider/
Video of it in action:
http://vimeo.com/45248265
A real bargain at only $6k. Time to cash in the change jar!
ponceleonsays...>> ^Mookal:
>> ^ponceleon:
Anyone have any idea how he does the tracking with the time-lapse photography? It is clearly not just cropping, the camera is moving in some of those shots...
Floatcam slider:
http://www.abelcine.com/store/Matthews-Floatcam-DC-Slider/
Video of it in action:
http://vimeo.com/45248265
A real bargain at only $6k. Time to cash in the change jar!
YEOUCH!
Add to the list of stuff for when I win the lottery...
Trancecoachsays...you could always do it by hand... >> ^ponceleon:
>> ^Mookal:
>> ^ponceleon:
Anyone have any idea how he does the tracking with the time-lapse photography? It is clearly not just cropping, the camera is moving in some of those shots...
Floatcam slider:
http://www.abelcine.com/store/Matthews-Floatcam-DC-Slider/
Video of it in action:
http://vimeo.com/45248265
A real bargain at only $6k. Time to cash in the change jar!
YEOUCH!
Add to the list of stuff for when I win the lottery...
oritteroposays...*length=3:18
siftbotsays...The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 3:18 - length declared by oritteropo.
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