Life as a micromachine

Amp34 · 18 Mar 2009 at 14:46

Alex53 said:
Pretty sure you could shoot with a video camera and discard frames / compress the duration of the video. The result is not as high quality, but would do the job at web resolutions.

Yeah but that wouldn't look as good (and I don't have a Video camera woth manual controls.

Kol said:
Surely it would be the other way, like 1 FPS if that. The whole point in time lapse.

Probably closer to 5 seconds in some of those scenes, I meant how many FPS would yopu need to make the video non jerky if you get what I mean? The time lapse part will all depend on what you are shooting, people walking around faster than the sun going through the sky.

Fstop11 said:
I personally wouldn't do it because its a hell of a wear on the shutter. You'll fire thousands doing that.
I wouldnt pass it up on the 5D though.

That's what I was wondering about, a lot of actuations, suppose I should just get a 5D mk2.

[TW]Taggart · 18 Mar 2009 at 19:18

great vid, amazing what a bit of DOF will do to make things seem smaller than they actually are.. some of the shots make the chopper/people look like toys!

I know a photographer/filmmaker who does loads of timelapses and has gone through many 50D shutters. He shoots for an end resuilt of 25 fps so thats partly to do with it, but no reason a inet vid cant be 12 or lower.

Kol · 18 Mar 2009 at 19:26

Amp34 said:
Probably closer to 5 seconds in some of those scenes, I meant how many FPS would yopu need to make the video non jerky if you get what I mean? The time lapse part will all depend on what you are shooting, people walking around faster than the sun going through the sky.

Doh - yes, I was being a bit simple

knightrider. · 18 Mar 2009 at 19:42

Brilliant video, must have taken him a lot of time and effort!

Do you reckon he had a tilt-shift lens on the camera, or did he do the effects in post-production? There's no mention of his equipment in the details under the video...

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 19 Mar 2009 at 00:22

Could be tilt n shift lens. Quality sure looks like its coming from one..
It could however be one of the lensbabies

Tooks · 19 Mar 2009 at 00:41

Fstop11 said:
Could be tilt n shift lens. Quality sure looks like its coming from one..
It could however be one of the lensbabies

I'm pretty sure reading some of the comments on the site you linked to from his friends mentioned tilt shift lenses being used.

Would certainly explain the look.

Good find anyway, I enjoyed them.

PinkFloyd · 19 Mar 2009 at 00:56

Just watching a few of his other videos too

Really liked the sand whale one (Helpless) - nice music too.

D.P. · 19 Mar 2009 at 08:03

Fstop11 said:
Could be tilt n shift lens. Quality sure looks like its coming from one..
It could however be one of the lensbabies

Its a tilt-shift lens on a Canon 5dMK2 just used in movie mode.

inph · 19 Mar 2009 at 08:40

Definitely tilt-shift judging by the size of the blurry people in the background compared to those in focus.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 19 Mar 2009 at 10:26

No its time lapse D.P and Tilt / Shift.

Alex53 · 20 Mar 2009 at 08:59

I might be wrong but rather than tilt-shift this could have been done with post-processing. Blur foreground, blur-background et voila. If you do a different mask for each scene and process all the shots in that scene with an action, its not that much processing for a 5 minute clip.

D.P. · 20 Mar 2009 at 09:13

Alex53 said:
I might be wrong but rather than tilt-shift this could have been done with post-processing. Blur foreground, blur-background et voila. If you do a different mask for each scene and process all the shots in that scene with an action, its not that much processing for a 5 minute clip.

In theory you could fake it that way, but the result wont be anywhere near as good. These are taken with a TS lens.

There is substantial post-processing, massive color saturation and contrast boost for starters.

PiKe · 20 Mar 2009 at 09:27

The bloke falling off wasn't real was it, some of it was, but some of it didn't look right, ie helicopter.

Septh · 20 Mar 2009 at 10:13

PiKe said:
The bloke falling off wasn't real was it, some of it was, but some of it didn't look right, ie helicopter.

Thats all to do with the framerate its at.
That bit was staged though

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 20 Mar 2009 at 11:23

Its not up for discussion. They are taken with Tilt Shift lenses and are time lapse.
If you read the artists bio it explains this

PiKe said:
The bloke falling off wasn't real was it, some of it was, but some of it didn't look right, ie helicopter.

Of course its real.
Its staged obviously but its real. The effects are due to framerate as explained.

domthecondom · 20 Mar 2009 at 13:24

amaizing

it all looks like minicities

FreeStream · 20 Mar 2009 at 13:25

Tilt-shift and time-lapse for sure!

And I've always wanted to do HD time lapses but my shutter would just die

I might buy a new 40D later this year and do loads of time lapses until the shutter dies

(hopefully within the year warranty!)

Oxygen · 20 Mar 2009 at 15:21

Fantastic application of photography... really impressed.

steveo · 21 Mar 2009 at 07:12

i remember seeing a tut on a website where you could get this look in photoshop :confused:

any one seen it

scratch that i found it : http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/ might give it a go

Septh · 21 Mar 2009 at 10:01

steveo said:
i remember seeing a tut on a website where you could get this look in photoshop any one seen it

scratch that i found it : http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/ might give it a go

I've done some tilt shift in photoshop:

https://flic.kr/p/5EA5pC

https://flic.kr/p/5EA4Uh

https://flic.kr/p/5EvKye

Those are my best 3, I got a couple others on my flickr too.
You really got to pick the right picture.
I got some overhead rally pictures I might try it on too when I'm bored some day.