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No other festival in the Southern Hemisphere illuminates a city quite like Vivid Sydney.

As the festival of light, music and ideas, Vivid Sydney flicks on the ultimate light switch and ignites the city with spectacular colours.

It features the lighting of the Sydney Opera House, which sees Utzon’s iconic sails transformed into a spectacular living canvas with Vivid LIVE co-curator Laurie Anderson putting her own mark on Sydney's most recognised landmark. Now in its second year, it’s a harbourside artwork that’s grabbed the world’s attention!

From the 27th May through till 21st June the people of Sydney were treated to a wonderful journey of projection and imagination with incredible lighting patterns beamed onto iconic buildings around the CBD that when sped up, into a timelapse sequence, gives the festival an entire new dimension.

This visual story was shot over the entire festival period using the latest camera technology from Canon - the 1D Mark IV DSLR and a variety of Canon L-series lenses.

The projections were expertly done by well known Sydney based projection company The Electric Canvas.

There was no shortage of Sydney locals and tourists alike actively capturing the festival from every possible angle in a variety of different ways - still photography & video being the most popular.

No one I could see was shooting time lapse sequences which, combined with the magic imagery being projected onto various buildings and structures around town including the world famous Sydney Opera House, I believed would generate some very interesting imagery.

Vivid Sydney 2010 is a visual story brought to you by local cinematographer Marcus O'Brien from Indigo Zoom Productions. Hope you enjoy it!

If you do like it - press that LIKE icon in the top right hand corner - the more people who share the Vivid Sydney 2010 visual experience the better next year's event will be!!! Please also feel free to leave a comment as feedback is always welcomed.

Forward this link on so friends and family both in Australia and abroad can also share this wonderful Sydney Festival experience.

Please go to indigozoom.com for further information about this shoot, all equipment used and contact information regarding this work or if you are a production manager, producer or company representative and would like to discuss future projects.

Music: Alpha State - Album Mix
Artist: Marcus Schulz

The amazing music track used in this edit is by prominent global and No 1 American Club DJ Markus Schulz. You can buy his incredible music and learn about this very talented DJ here;

myspace.com/markusschulz
doyoudream.markusschulz.com/
markusschulz.com/biography.php

Other helpful links relating to this event and equipment;

vividsydney.com/

theelectriccanvas.com.au/

agbevents.com.au/

visitnsw.com/

eventsnsw.com.au/home.aspx

canon.com.au/en-AU/For-You/Digital-Cameras/EOS-Digital-SLR-Cameras/1DMk4

sunstudiosaustralia.com/
  • Peter Hardin plus 1 year ago
    Hey Marcus, great work, love it, I went in one night and did one timelapse, would loved to have had more time to do what you did, mine is up here on Vimeo.
    Cheers....Pete
  • Marcus O'Brien pro 1 year ago
    Gday Pete,

    Thanks mate had alot of fun shooting Vivid around town.

    Colours was fantastic this year. Glad you got amongst it too!

    Cheers and catch u soon
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  • David Cousins 1 year ago
    Nice work Mobsy....this looks amazing.
    Cuz.
  • Marcus O'Brien pro 1 year ago
    Thanks Cuz!

    Glad you enjoyed it.

    More to follow
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  • Murray Fredericks 1 year ago
    Great work, Marcus!
  • Marcus O'Brien pro 1 year ago
    Thanks Murray - really appreciate it.

    Welcome back!
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  • Genus Products pro 1 year ago
    Hi Marcus, Excellent work!
  • Marcus O'Brien pro 1 year ago
    Thanks Steve, look forward to catching up soon.
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  • Peter Loxton 1 year ago
    Hi Mark

    My name is Peter Loxton and I was the Production Manager for Macquarie Visions event (a key component for VIVID Sydney) which is the majority of the footage in this video.

    The creative mastermind of Macquarie Visions (Anthony Bastic) and director of AGB Events loves your VIVID video (as does the rest of us working on the event), so much so that Anthony would like to use your VIVID video as a promo tool for an upcoming proposal (leaving Sydney this Wednesday).

    Could you please get in touch with us ASAP to discuss this proposal.

    We look forward to hearing from you soon.

    Kind regards,
    Peter Loxton

    Production Manager - AGB Events
    e. ploxton@agbevents.com.au
    w. agbevents.com.au
    t. 612 9358 5982
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  • Richard Bejah 1 year ago
    Loved the vivid colours...Just LOVE SYDNEY.. This will be my feature video this week RICH :0)
  • Marcus O'Brien pro 1 year ago
    Your right Richard - the vivid colours rocked! Thanks for featuring.

    Marcus
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  • edvard brun 1 year ago
    Amazing spectacle -- thanks for sharing this. I really had no idea of this event...
  • Marcus O'Brien pro 1 year ago
    Sydney has some great events Edvard, this is one of a few that make this city as special as it is
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  • Cameron Frittz plus 1 year ago
    This was amazing! I was blown away. At first I thought it was computer generated! Fantastically captured.
  • Marcus O'Brien pro 1 year ago
    Thanks Cameron - a few friends also thought the images were CGI - the quality of the slides and designs on some of the structures was all down to creative mastermind Anthony Bastic of AGB Events here in Sydney.

    There's another edit of this stunning event coming out soon - stay tuned!
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  • Samuel Cockedey 1 year ago
    Love it Marcus, and the music is a great match too!
  • Marcus O'Brien pro 1 year ago
    Thanks Samuel!

    I have another version on Vivid Sydney with different timelapse shots mixed in with regular video coming out soon - stay tuned!
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  • John Coates 1 year ago
    that actually gave me goosebumps...... wicked
  • Marcus O'Brien pro 1 year ago
    Thanks mate,

    * NEWSFLASH - a second version of Vivid Sydney 2010 with new time lapse sequences AND motion video cut together about to be released!

    Stay tuned........
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  • Martin Bargiel plus 1 year ago
    Hi Marcus,
    how did you manage to get the right exposers in "the same frame" timelapses?
    For example the projections on the buildings are exposes correctly, but at the same time you have a correct exposed sky (with stars).
    When I do timelapse, I expose for about 30sec for a starry sky, but than of course, all the light up buildings are entirely overexposed. Don't tell me you did HDR Timelapse ;-) If yes, how that heck does that work.
    cheers
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  • Marcus O'Brien pro 1 year ago
    Hi Martin,

    HDR Timelapse - no.

    I just played around with exposure times and ISO settings to achieve what looked like the right balance of correct exposure on the buildings and 'sky' light. The 1DMK4 shoots really clean low light images which also played a part.

    Best just to vary your exposure times to see what captures your subject in the best light possible. Add movement into your frame and it changes even more.

    TEST test test

    30 sec exposure is what I used when there was no moon for the opening shot of the Beautiful Eyre piece. 30 secs is too long for cityscape captures where there's already loads of light.

    Am about to upload a second Vivid Sydney piece shortly which has more sequences from Vivid Sydney 2010 you might like to see also.
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