Filling in a Hole, A Really BIG Hole!
When I was called and asked if I could do a time-lapse of essentially the filling in of a huge hole, (grading) located in Lomita, CA, I was at a…
When I was called and asked if I could do a time-lapse of essentially the filling in of a huge hole, (grading) located in Lomita, CA, I was at a…
It's always a struggle to keep current in the marketplace. I was especially busy with new and interesting work this past year and 2016 is looking even more interesting.…
click on thumbnail to view film Beginning on March 16th and ending on Grand Prix day in Long Beach, my newest film was commissioned by Downtown Long Beach Associates. They…
The looming and constant challenge in my niche market is how to explain to potential clients why I do what I do. It’s not the photography but the thinking and…
Well it took awhile to finally get this film to a point where I can own the end result. An experiment in tone, color and softness, I have taken construction…
Be it indoors or out, demolition, grading or construction, when I’m hired to produce your time lapse film, there are two things on my mind: data collection and data management.
Granted there are four sub-sections inside the two and that’s the purpose of this article, to flesh out exactly what needs to happen to do it right:
After several years of amazing construction time lapse projects, I finally had enough great footage to put together this clip/sizzle/demo/showcase reel. There was some great footage left out because like…
You’ve never met me. You’ve never done a time lapse. And want to know how to make one. And the investment is in the thousand’s of dollars. You didn’t even…
I generally spend the extra money on professional grade equipment so my gear holds up when put through less than ideal conditions. Which I do often because it's where my…
I was called to work on the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project last May and every so often they reach out to ask me to install various cameras at selected sites to record the process of building the “Century Bridge.”
This latest time lapse depicts 30 days of work on the pile caps. The piles are the underground bridge supports. The pile caps are built on top of the piles and are the structures the overhead roadway will eventually attach to.
The challenge of this particular time lapse was locating and installing the two camera systems. They were attached to two temporary platforms attached to two temporary light poles overlooking the yard where the work took place. Double-strapped for safety, these custom built mounting platforms rock!
The poles were in excess of 40′ in height and being temporary, they swayed during the shoot. No problem as the back and forth movement was addressed during post-production. The software tool is called warp stabilization. The software is After Effects. Great name, eh?
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