Did you know that I’ve been to Yosemite National Park? It’s up there as my top 3 favorites. Along with Gates of the Arctic, and The Grand Tetons. There’s something special about Yosemite though. It’s one of the few parks which I’ve been to more than once. And I’d love to go back there again and again, it’s that beautiful, and that special.
Anyway, enjoy the above time-lapse, it’s enjoyable, and at first glance the music was weird, but on reflection, I like it.
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Instead, you should take this 8K glory video of The Milky Way from Nikon. Yes, it’s quite something, though parts of it look just a bit too surreal. Like they were rendered.
Julian Tryba has a pretty neat Time-Lapse, or layer-lapse as they call it, of New York City:
I admit, that was pretty ace. Each scene in the video has as many as 300 different layers, all being independently turned on and off to the beat of the music. A time-lapse done well to music is better than any other boring time-lapse. This one is pretty dang impressive. Even more so considering it consists of over 230,000 different photos, spanning over 350 hours of life. Though, I imagine some of that might have been duplicated with multiple lenses on multiple cameras at the same location. Either way, it’s a great 2 and a half minutes of your life, trust me.
Here are two time-lapses of the night sky from two very different perspectives. The first one is the standard watch the stars pass by overhead in a circle around the viewer. It’s pretty nice, Aryeh Nirenberg created it by leaving his camera on all night on Assateague Island in Maryland.
I do enjoy watching the stars pass by, it’s quite relaxing. This next video is a different take on the tradition. The stars are moving because the earth is moving through space, and rotating around it’s axis. Most people experience this by having the foreground stationary and letting the stars spin. AlphaPhoenix reversed that and has the stars stationary and the foreground rotating around Polaris, the North Star.
It’s actually, quite dizzying to be honest. I’m not a fan of it.
Sriram Murali created the above video to show the effects that light pollution has on the beautiful night sky. In it, he focuses on the constellation Orion, and how our perception of it changes based on the light density of the area we view it from. The entire thing is a great example of one of the major downfalls of city life – loss of the night sky. However, the entire thing also does suffer from a major unintended side-effect. In order to take impressive night sky shots, you must take long exposure photos. In the process of taking those photos, and in the post-processing necessary on them, you get many more stars visible than the human eye usually sees. That makes the darker skies even more impressive in the time-lapse.
Regardless, it’s still a good teaching tool. Hopefully you take the time to drive 100 miles from the city where you live to really experience the night sky!
In 8K!
Well, if you can even render 8K on your puny monitor that is. This was taken up in Voyageurs National Park, way up in northern Minnesota, like, way up there on the border of Canada. It’s not a place that’s easy to get to as much of the park consists of lakes and rivers, but that makes it unique in its own right.
One day I’ll make it to this park, hopefully it will be at a time when I can experience those beautiful norther lights in person!
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I do love some Infrared photography. There’s something awesome and other-worldly about it that is so enticing. This time-lapse of Oregon is done completely in infrared. I will say, some of the shots are pretty lost. The nightscapes, and the meh mountainsides, those just look like filtered B&W. There are a few nice sections of Crater Lake though, those came out neat.
All in all, it’s not bad at 6:48 seconds long, you should watch it, time-lapses are generally beautiful experiences.
For over 150 years The New York Times has been the pre-emetitive news paper of the United States. Yes, in recent times it has started to lean more towards the left, but it still presents mostly all sides of a story. I won’t get into the politics of the paper, that’s not worth the effort. What I do want to talk about is the above “time-lapse” put together by Josh Begley. In it he shows how the photograph became an ever increasing part of the front page. It’s quite soothing, and at under a minute long, it’s worth watching. Besides the rise of the photograph, the ever increasing text that appears along the headline was interesting to me too. I wish he overlaid a year marker, this way you could get an idea of when certain events happened.
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a time-lapse. Well, I think it has anyway. So please, watch the above, it’s longer than previous ones at 5 minutes, but it’s just as spectacular as any I’ve posted in the past. There are some spots where the clouds look unreal. The music is well paced and soothing. So for-realz, watch it, enjoy it, live it.
Black and White is an often overlooked area of photography. Especially when time-lapse storm footage is done. There’s something about shooting in black and white that gives everything a more mysterious, serious, yet fantasy look. Mike Olbinski shot the entire sequence in black and white. Yes, there is some post-processing work done, but it’s natural black and white (as natural as a digital camera can be that is).
My favorite sequence is about 2 and a half minutes in, when clouds roll across the sky, then the sun starts coming through, and things get brighter, and more detailed. I also love watching the clouds for out of nowhere, water vapor collecting, winds combining, clouds being born. Storms are amazing to watch like this, safe in the comfort of your own home with soothing music playing in the background.