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Six minutes of extreme slow-motion destruction
This is what happens when you get your hands on a high-speed camera. Love it.
via PetaPixel
Time lapse on the iPhone
Judging by the queues outside Apple Stores everywhere yesterday, we should expect a deluge of iPhone 4 HD videos, well, right about now.
In the meantime, Phillip Bloom posted an interesting iPhone time lapse video of a Florida sunset. It was shot, rendered and edited using the iTimelapse app.
I’m tempted to play with it over the weekend, it’s only £1.79 from the App Store, looks pretty cool and you don’t need the latest iPhone to shoot a time lapse vid:
Thoughts? Have you used the app?
Eyjafjallajökull video shot using Canon 5D Mark II
This is beautiful. Thanks to @documentally and @kate_day for posting the link on Twitter in the first place.
Oh, and as always, go full screen.
Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.
Apollo 11 Saturn V launch in HD
A blast from the past. Literally.
41 years ago a camera, running at 500 frames per second (yes, I know), captured the launch of Apollo 11 on a 16mm tape.
Thanks to the use of the 500 fps camera, the actual 30-second take-off sequence is stretched to eight minutes. (And recently converted to HD too).
The resulting footage is mesmerising and terrifying in equal measure.
Listen to the commentary for more details and insights.
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.
The story beyond the still
Posted by Michal in photographers, video on 18/03/2010
Just came across a fantastic HD video contest on Vimeo, called The Story Beyond the Still.
It’s sponsored by Canon and the winner can get either Canon 7D or 5D Mark II, there are also other prizes like Canon lenses or a trip to shoot a short film with one of the judges, and the author of the video which opens the series, Vincent Laforet.
So what is it all about?
It’s the first ever user-generated HD Video Contest where photographers become filmmakers, and we all see beyond the still. Last month the contest kicked off when Canon asked photographer, Vincent Laforet, to interpret a still by telling the story that lived beyond it using the Canon EOS 7D.
And here is his video:
And now the story continues. More from the site:
It was the first chapter of seven, ending with a still photograph of its own for the Vimeo community to then interpret. After 112 entries, Josh Thacker was chosen as the very first winner and now, once again the question is posed to you, what do you see beyond this still?
There are six more chapters to come, so really plenty of time to get creative and submit something equally intriguing. Among the judges is the brilliant Phillip Bloom, whose stunning HD videos are always beautifully shot and edited.
If you fancy submitting your video, there are only 4 days left to send the third chapter.
Five days, four cameras, one beautiful video
Posted by Michal in photographers, video on 08/02/2010
Prepare to be amazed
Posted by Michal in inspiration, video on 07/01/2010
If you haven’t seen the video yet, please watch it before you continue reading this post.
And preferably go full screen if you can.
Did you like it? I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen on Vimeo in a long time.
But what’s really striking about this video is the fact that it’s fully computer-generated. None of it is real. It’s all animated.
As the author of the video, Alex Roman, says: “The Third and The Seventh is a full-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects
are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.”
The website for the project, www.thirdseventh.com, describes it as “the visual fusion between the third and the seventh arts.”
Alex Roman is an artistic alias of a 30-year-old Spanish artist Jorge Seva, who studied traditional painting, then worked for a visual effects company in Madrid before developing an interest in architectural visualisation.
In one interview he explained the concept and the title:
I realized that there was a huge aesthetic difference between most clients’ commercial demands and photography of already-built structures. The lack of respect for the architecture itself in some “pure” commercial illustration was very frustrating to me. (Well, this is just my opinion, of course.)
Then, I decided to start a personal journey: to experiment with a more cinematographic and/or photographic oriented point of view of some of my favorites architects’ masterpieces.
Hence, the “TheThird&TheSeventh” project…
You can read the rest of the interview here – he explains some technical details regarding the video.
You have to admit, the video is simply stunning. I can’t begin to imagine the amount of effort and patience required to put the whole thing together. I think I’ll stop moaning about my RAW workflow now.
It also shows what is possible in 2010 and actually when you think about it – it makes you wonder how much of what we see is real – and when it matters. If at all.
I went to see the new Sherlock Holmes and half of the movie was computer-generated, but it didn’t bother me at all, it was good fun.
There might be situations however when this sort of CG footage might be problematic – factual or news footage springs to mind. Sooner or later it will happen.
But I guess this is just the beginning – in five year’s time Avatar and Wall-e will look dated. And I’d rather celebrate the fact we’re able to create such amazing things.
Alex Roman, I salute you!
Stunning 7D advert
I know I wrote a few bitter words about Canon 7D when it was first released, mainly because of the annoying image problems.
But now they have been solved and Canon has released a stunning ad to promote the camera.
It’s beautifully shot… using Canon 7D itself. It features Feargus Kennedy, an award-winning wildlife photographer and forms part of a special campaign called Take stories, which also features other Canon cameras, including Canon 5D Mark II and EOS 450D.
Feast your eyes…
Guide to HD video
Posted by Michal in photography, video on 01/12/2009
The excellent DP Review has published what looks like a good introduction to using digital cameras with HD video capabilities.
Beginner’s Guide to HD Video is a good read and definitely a must for those who consider buying such camera or for those who, like me, have been experimenting with HD video for the past several months or so.
Last week I was using a semi-professional HD video camera to film a friend’s wedding, but also used Canon 5D Mark II for the more informal clips too. And I absolutely loved it! The fact that you can use a selection of lenses, including good quality prime lenses, is just fantastic.
I seem to understand the difference between a camcorder and a HDSLR better now and the DP Review article does a great job in listing the advantages and disadvantages of using them. There’s also a short comparison of a selection of HDSLRs, an explanation of the various video resolutions, shooting modes and file types.
There are also some sample videos, but be warned – you’ll need a pretty fast broadband connection to watch them as they are uncompressed and quite big.
They didn’t spend much time talking about editing HD files, but, as they rightly noted, mastering some high-end editing applications like Final Cut Pro is a steep learning curve and actually requires a separate guide.
And – after my initial adventures with HD video – I’ve decided that mastering Final Cut Pro will definitely be one of my New Year resolutions for 2010.
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