From Zero to Hero in 31 Days
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…
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Lingering Clouds Peak
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…
THE BIG TWO OF TIME-LAPSE FILM PRODUCTION
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:
1) Fixed Camera
2) Aerial Video
3) Rover Days
4) Post-Production
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IT’S SHOWTIME!
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…
I Get It
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…
Rode Hard And Put Away Almost Dry
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 tell stories about how things get built…
Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project
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?
The Marriage of Stills and Motion
A cinemagraph is the marriage of a single still photograph and either a real time video or a time-lapse video. Or both... The technique of combining still photography with a…
It’s Magic When Things Move
It’s the motion that makes me do what I do. As anyone who reads my blog…(both of you, where ever you are, thanks!), you know that after 31 years as a still photographer, I switched to time lapse in 2011. It’s what I specialize in now and as part of that specialization, motion control is a huge part of what I do for you. Done while in the field during principal photography, (but sometimes or in addition to), motion control can also be done in post production:
password: post-effects
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Sangfroid
The definition of cool under fire, this is one quality you definitely want your professional photographer to possess when commissioning a time lapse project. Especially if your project is located at a construction site with heavy equipment moving about. Safety first is crucial of course but the dynamic nature of medium and large scale construction sites guarantee that unexpected opportunities arise and as a time lapse specialist who spends a lot of time on site, I’m present to time lapse those unexpected moments, danger notwithstanding.
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