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An other one from Terje Sorgjerd: "The Mountain"

Roberto Lequeux

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There are some bumps and wind and a few grades I would have done differently, but f-me sideways!! What a great follow up to The Aurora. Those locations!! Those shots! The use of "tone-mapping" --that fits! To those of you that are thinking of going: "WAAA! Tone-maping sucks, WAAAA! I don't like it!!" Please, shut up already. If you have a difference with someone it isn't because "tone-mapping" is evil, but because you disagree with their coloring choice on a specific shot or more. If it is enjoyable it has a purpose! And I THOROUGHLY enjoyed this timelapse compilation! It seemed like there might have been some shots that were bracketed, perhaps with a programmable trigger?

It would seem it was a friends track, pre-recorded. The editing matched the music well, and the time-mapping obviously helped and added somethings that were very nice. The undulating cloud threw me just a little bit, but that's just personal taste in the time-mapping I think.

Man, I really hope this guy keeps posting!
 
In all my years on this business and despite of a few minimal details, those are the most beautiful landscape time lapses ever seen. Believe me, I have seen the work of the best time lapse photographers in the world and so far Terje's are the best…Congratulations to Terje.
 
OMG, the sandstorm footage! And I never post with OMG.
 
I liked the use of tonemapping in most shots but there was one lens flare that posterized really badly as a result and two other shots that halo'ed. Would have been worth the extra 2 minutes to draw a mask by hand in my opinion. But in most of the cases the automatic tone mapping worked very well.

I loved the undulating clouds.
 
Who said it was "automatic" tone mapping? Like auto levels? :) I guess you meant automated, key-framed, right Gavin?

It doesn't matter, cause bottom line this guy is only gonna get better! He is obviously visually talented. But I really hope he keeps pushing back the limit of what's natural with his grade for these compilations, because the majority of the shots worked perfectly for me.

It isn't that I didn't like the boiling clouds, I did. It is a fantastic shot. I just felt that its distinct motion came on a bit too abruptly, following a lot of sweeping and constant motion. That particular moment's time-mapping adds a bit too much emphasis to something too different. Maybe there is something else about it. Anyway, it is all taste. And I am picking at it --because-- I like it so much! :beer: Cheers to Terje!! Goes without saying.
 
Saw this on Youtube yesterday and was blown away by it. Had to have a second look as some of the shots were really something else, especially as he achieved this in a short space of time. The Canary Islands have got some amazing scenery that you rarely see in the holiday brochures. This really does the area some justice.
 
Roberto Lequeux said:
Who said it was "automatic" tone mapping? Like auto levels? :) I guess you meant automated, key-framed, right Gavin?
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The 'automatically' part is in relation to the localized tone mapping. Technically levels or curves are also tone mapping but when most people talk about tone mapping they're referring to local tone mapping which automatically isolates different contrast regions to adjust differently. He probably did animate key-frames for the localization process but the process of localizing each adjustment region was automatic (hence the halo'ing) as opposed to hand drawn masks.
 
Oh, so you mean creating keys to "automatically" select and change/follow regions you want to affect based on their color and/or luminosity. Right?

Where is the halo'ing? I guess I missed it.
 
amazing stuff
 
But only if the discussion focuses on the camera really. We are talking about the material and possible post work here so we should be just fine.
 
Roberto Lequeux said:
But only if the discussion focuses on the camera really. We are talking about the material and possible post work here so we should be just fine.
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Still I was specifically told that people can't post 5D2 only footage and that was the reason why my post got pulled down.
 
Roberto Lequeux said:
Oh, so you mean creating keys to "automatically" select and change/follow regions you want to affect based on their color and/or luminosity. Right?

Where is the halo'ing? I guess I missed it.
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Right. Local Tonemapping (usually automatically) breaks up the scene into dark and light regions. Regions being the key word since unlike global tonemapping such as curves it applies different contrast adjustments to different areas of the picture. The manual analogy is the dodge and burn tools, they're intended to be used selectively. This is the "HDR" look. It automatically finds the dark regions and applies a gain and also automatically finds the highlights and darkens the mid-tones within the highlights. The failure points are usually the same as with image sharpening: wherever there is a high contrast border the trick is revealed since you'll see the blurred matte.

In this case from the video for instance the gain on the mountain to increase the mountain contrast is also gaining the sky up and it looks like there is a glow on the horizon.
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Since it's a static shot it would have been pretty easy to manually draw the mattes around the dark hillside and get a nice clean invisible edge and preserve the entire sky.
 
Yes, that shot was one of the ones that bothered me. I saw that, and it is also a bit too soft. I wonder if vibration did that, but it looks like it might be a softer long lens. Still nice composition, though the softness makes it less trapping.
 
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