Hey thanks, I added some explanation... ;-)

Hey thanks! someone is very jealous and that someone is me!!

D700? Now that's showing off ;) I look forward to seeing some results from that.

AND the 10-20mm, am I right?

Hey I appreciate that!

Funny you should mention the boat.. I removed it this morning and reworked the timing of the first two shots. I'll upload asap.

Hey thanks Seth! Didn't know you were vimeo-ing... great to see your stuff here as well!

Thanks! The pan is using the 'milapse head'. This is all with a DSLR so it all comes down to the question of 'how many seconds per frame do I need for the situation?' the rest is a whole lotta post processing!

Ah cool, cheers. So it's almost animation, rather than live action. ;)

such a great technique though. as I said, music worked really well.

Chad wrote a good how to here (I don't agree with all of it but it will give you an idea): chadrichard.typepad.com/timelapse/2008/06/how-to-make-an.html

Totally don't understand what your asking! ;-)

Ah you edited your comment! Now I get it... Doing HDR timelapse with the 350d is possible and with lots o' practice you could pull it off. Take a look around timescapes.org ... we discuss this stuff all day.

"Some experiments with the Sigma 4.5mm"

Photomatix

Hey thanks! Can't help appreciating that sentiment! 8-D

Hey thanks! We'll keep pushing to the next level! ;-)

Hey thanks! That reminds me... I forgot to add the music credit! FYI Artist:Galdson Track: Denilio

Hard to say? It took around 5-10 seconds per frame so doing the math at least 6 hours... The HDR generation and tone mapping takes much longer. That probably averaged around 30sec+ per frame!

Very interesting! I did in fact work @ 8-bit from tone mapped frames on... The one part I'm unfamiliar with in a 32-bit workflow is tone mapping the .exr frames in AE rather than batch processing them out to 8-bit in photomatix... Maybe I'm just unaware of the possibilities!

you open your .EXR files in AE and make sure your project is in 32 bit per channel (ALT+click on the "8bpc" down the project files) / (or file/project settings). Then you create a composition and import the exr files in it. If your EXR are really HDR you should already be able to see the available range by changing the exposure (little slider down the visual preview).
After that, all your motion blur, opacity transitions and many other effects (except the ones wit a little warning logo) will be taking the full range of your images into account. Your transitions will look much nicer this way :-) , much closer than the film effect, which reduces light passing through the film and not 'painting" black over the picture. (If you're a lightroom user, you should see what i mean, because their slideshow uses HDR, that's a good example).
You cannot really tone map your images in after effects, I mean in the way photomatix does it. In fact it will be a tone mapping much more interesting, where you won't have the kind of glow like you have around the trees in your second image.
It's called a "shoulder". With the curves you can bring down the highlights of your picture by doing like this : (hard to explain with words) in the effects/color correction/curves add two points in the middle tones of the picture and one in the shadows. then bring down the highlight one. You should have a curve looking like a straight from the shadows to the middle tones, and gradually falling to the highlights.
Don't expect nice color correction from after effects, you should try Nuke instead.

maybe you can check this tutorial, it gives you a quick start in HDR compositing with AE
library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/hdr/video-tutorial.php
enjoy ! That's definitely an enjoyable workflow !

Thanks for the explanation! I'll take a deep breath and dive in...

I used this: youtube.com/watch?v=Ni89TBOTCUA (albeit with a scripted sequence of commands that ramped up the rotational speed)

i didn't know you could get a system like that for so cheap. I was recently trying to build a stepping motor with a friend, that we could have controlled by a computer, sending pulses. That's in fact not that easy and almost the same price as your system.
Do you know if there are system like that with a visual control from a computer ?

I was trying to develop a GUI for it.. Then my 'real job' got 'real busy'. ;-) I went through the stepper headache as well and gave up! Send me a PM... It's basically a serial thang.