LA Sunset Time-Lapse

Ben, the first shot of LA was taken from the 6th Street bridge that passes over the LA river. Its a very nice view. I'm not really sure how long a minute of footage would take because I'm shooting in frames on a digital SLR still camera. I know that for one minute of time-lapse footage it would be 1440 frames at 24fps. That first shot of LA was around 400+ frames and was a little less than 10 seconds long. That also took me about 20 minutes to shoot. So maybe that kind of answers your question of how long a minute would be.
 
Hey Drew...Let me know when you've got an hour of that type of stuff on DVD set to cool music, I'll be in line for a copy.
 
There is already a movie of footage exactly like this, it is called "Koyaanisqatsi" and perhaps some of you may have seen it. I'm sure it has been an inspiration to Drew. It's quite breathtaking. Occasionally it can be found on DVD at Best Buy.
 
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I really like that first sequence, because you have a foreground element which is well lit.

The light trails from the cars are all cool. Great stuff.
 
I experimented with this after you posted the first thread but I dont think my city has enough traffic at night :(. Like one or two cars every minute. :)

-Edalgo
 
Kevin, I've seen all three films in that set. But only after I had done most of this. Someone from my work had suggested the films to me after seeing what I was doing. There's some cool time-lapse in those films but its stuff I've seen before. I've been trying to get stuff that I haven't seen before or I think would just look cool. I try and think of it as a picture that has movement in it. I've seen some footage where the camera does like a long pan and that looks alright. But it kind of breaks the effect for me. So to answer your statment you made "Koyaanisqatsi"did not inspire me. More than anything it showed me what works and what doesn't.

Mino, I think it might be a while until I get an hours worth of footage. But once I do I'll let you know. Thanks for all the comments.
 
Thought I'd jump into this thread to offer another solution for folks who have a digital camera that doesn't have a built-in intervalometer. I've been working on a timelapse project for a while and bought a Model 2000 from Harbortronics: http://www.harbortronics.com/detail.php?id=17 After shooting a sequence (I'm using VGA mode 640x480), all I do is dump all the images in a folder, open Quicktime Pro -> File -> Open Image Sequence ->pick your frame rate.....and you're done. It's a quick way to create an .mov file. Here's the site where I first saw this info: http://www.digitalsecrets.net/secrets/Accessory.html

How about THAT for my first post? ;-)

dave
 
Thxdave, just to let you know the 20D doesn't have a built in intervalometer. I had to buy an extra controller to do this without a computer. Does sound like a faster way of doing it. But if you wanted to add it into a project or add music to the sequence then you would need some kind of NLE.
 
God I love that. So............

surreal and calming and peaceful and beautiful to look at. The choice of score is always appropriate
 
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