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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

New Timelapse...

Dimeworth said:
Beautiful.

I can see you doing a longform project like this -- baraka styles.
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Thanks, I hope so. Right now, I am planning on taking 2-3 months off this summer to shoot nothing but timelapse - Sierras, Yosemite, Tahoe, Yellowstone, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, etc. I'm hoping to put together a 5-7 minute short that I can enter at Cannes, Venice, Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca - one of the big ones, hopefully. I'm not sure which festivals take experimental/non-narrative shorts in the style of Baraka, though? I'm clueless about festivals. I figure even if my short sucks or gets rejected, I can still sell the timelapses as stock footage at Getty.

Pipe dream would be shooting a 45-min IMAX film "on spec" with the new Canon 1Ds Mark III. :)
 
Nice Tom; I'll be looking forward to seeing those time laspses someday. And make sure to get a composer who can do something like what you used. Very atomspheric, and at 1080p, it already has the IMAX feel.
 
Tom said:
Thanks, I hope so. Right now, I am planning on taking 2-3 months off this summer to shoot nothing but timelapse - Sierras, Yosemite, Tahoe, Yellowstone, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, etc. I'm hoping to put together a 5-7 minute short that I can enter at Cannes, Venice, Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca - one of the big ones, hopefully. I'm not sure which festivals take experimental/non-narrative shorts in the style of Baraka, though? I'm clueless about festivals. I figure even if my short sucks or gets rejected, I can still sell the timelapses as stock footage at Getty.

Pipe dream would be shooting a 45-min IMAX film "on spec" with the new Canon 1Ds Mark III. :)
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You should add a story to it.. add narration.. maybe its the voice of nature speaking to the world.. "I am earth" .. something. The images you produce are too powerful to not have a profound message and meaning attached to them, weather passive or not.
 
acehole said:
You should add a story to it.. add narration.. maybe its the voice of nature speaking to the world.. "I am earth" .. something. The images you produce are too powerful to not have a profound message and meaning attached to them, weather passive or not.
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Yesterday I was thinking the same thing, it would be super cool if you could weave in a story into the images. A reason that one image is after the other.

Yes could be as simple as a voiceover or maybe something that traveled through the different places (perhaps even added with special effects). We become aware of stuff from the point of view of a presence beyond regular time.
 
Yeah, I am going to think about some kind of theme or story. I was definitely thinking about a narration. I'd love to have Q'Orianka Kilcher reading poetry from The Rubaiyat or something. :)
 
Tom said:
Thanks, I hope so. Right now, I am planning on taking 2-3 months off this summer to shoot nothing but timelapse - Sierras, Yosemite, Tahoe, Yellowstone, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, etc. I'm hoping to put together a 5-7 minute short that I can enter at Cannes, Venice, Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca - one of the big ones, hopefully. I'm not sure which festivals take experimental/non-narrative shorts in the style of Baraka, though? I'm clueless about festivals. I figure even if my short sucks or gets rejected, I can still sell the timelapses as stock footage at Getty.

Pipe dream would be shooting a 45-min IMAX film "on spec" with the new Canon 1Ds Mark III. :)
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I doubt it will suck. Get a composer to help score it. Get some recognizable "voice" and I am sure it get picked up as a
short. If your exposures were 30 sec what was the time between exposures?
Thanks
 
Red Guy said:
I doubt it will suck. Get a composer to help score it. Get some recognizable "voice" and I am sure it get picked up as a
short. If your exposures were 30 sec what was the time between exposures?
Thanks
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I think 5 seconds, just to give the camera and sensor a "breather." I never go higher than 7 seconds, or the video will become choppy.
 
Wow, Impagliazzo, thanks a lot.

The song is "Three Faces of the Goddess" from Michael Stearns' "Collected Thematic Works 1977-1987".

BTW, I don't think I have mentioned it, but 2 of my timelapse clips appear in the recent rock video from Daughtry called "Feels Like Tonight." I haven't gotten my hands on a high-res copy yet, but if I do I will try to post it. The director did an awesome job. It was kind of surreal to see these random timelapses I shot in the middle of nowhere camping with my dog in Arizona two years ago actually show up on MTV and VH1. Really great feeling.
 
You are an inspiration to me, truly.

Tom, that was one of the top time-lapse shots I have seen.
You are one of my three heros (with timelapser and Steve)

http://www.vimeo.com/666334
http://www.timelapse.co.nz/tl2/

Go for your dream. It can happen. Others have done it.
http://www.torresfilm.com/

You could fund your film you could sell your shots first as you build your library (getty - footagebank.com etc.) and when you accumulate enough take the best and make a film. The right music would make your amazing cinematography illuminate emotionally too.

Imax? Yes. My dream was an IMAX film of catagory 5 tornadoes...up close...but my wife is not crazy about that one.

Thanks for sharing.

cd
 
Doesn't the "timelapse.co.nz" guy post here as MrTimelapse? His stuff is gorgeous. I haven't seen him around much lately, though. :(
 
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