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19. Autumn. A short timelapse film
1 year ago
The short was shot partially during the Jodlow Star Party 2010 in the middle of September, where we did serious testing of DitoGear™ Slider pre-production units and also during a few recent days at surprising surroundings of Wrocław, Poland.

What I love about this slider is that it works either in horizontal and vertical mode giving the option for crane-like shots. It adds a lot to your shooting style being very compact and portable at the same time.

Needless to say it works not only as a time-lapse dolly, but also as a video slider at higher speeds. The short, however, features only timelapse shots.

As you get more and more gear it is sometimes difficult to keep focused on shooting. The slider is very easy and quick to setup and provides a really intuitive and convenient user interface. I can virtually start shooting within 3 minutes on a location. It is a huge step forward comparing to my previous DIY timelapse dolly which took ma about an hour to setup.

If you're interested in the DitoGear™ Slider you'll find more details at ditogear.com

I am also planning on writing a more detailed product review on lookycreative.com. Stay tuned.
Enjoy the film!

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NOTE
Read about my HDR timelapse workflow here:
lookycreative.com/know-how/timelapse-postproduction-workflow/

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  • Mike Kobal plus 1 year ago
    your video looks fantastic! (slider looks good too)
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  • Olaf Henze plus 1 year ago
    wow - great work!_ _!looks awesome good
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  • Pawel Mazurkiewicz 1 year ago
    No no, niezle te drivecamy, material robi wrazenie, mimo, ze jest utrzymany w hdrowej stylistyce, ktorej nie lubie.

    Czekam na recke sprzetu - bo jakis super tani nie jest :)
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  • mario verastegui plus 1 year ago
    Beautiful images Patryk! I love the detail!
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  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Thanks!
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  • Timothy Hewitt 1 year ago
    Amazing footage, looks incredible!
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  • Matt Drake 1 year ago
    Do you colour correct each still individually by shooting RAW? or do you just shoot jpegs and do a general colour correction once you've got the video created?

    Or was that simply just all HDR and not colour corrected? I'm really interested in how you got those images looking so good! Very well done man! Would love to hear your experience from shooting this!
  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    I always shoot RAW. Everything. Be it HDR or SDR timelapse or photos.

    In terms of SDR shots I do basic color decisions during the RAW files development (ACR) on single shots (I mean sequences), later the entire film is color corrected after editing in NLE.

    With HDR it is a bit different. The basic temperature correction is done on a first step when merging subexposures to 32bpp HDR image. Then, the most of processing goes in the process of tone-mapping of 32bpp images to 16-bit TIFFs. After that, again, final color correction of the entire film in NLE.
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  • Jonathan Legere 1 year ago
    Wow
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  • Finn Hopson plus 1 year ago
    Very cool.
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  • Insanely kickass!
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  • Megan took the words right from my fingertips. Beautiful, Patryk. The grading is my favorite part by far.
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  • Glen Claydon 1 year ago
    Sweeet - keep up the great work !
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  • 33hirtz plus 1 year ago
    Cool as ....!
    Kudos!
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  • Michael Lapp plus 1 year ago
    You have some serious skills my friend. cheers
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  • Two Brothers Films plus 1 year ago
    Incredible! Great work
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  • Ihsan Surer 1 year ago
    Grandiose... Congrats.
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  • Dan Eckert 1 year ago
    Love the incline clips
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  • Wendell Frink plus 1 year ago
    Oh wow. this is just amazing
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  • absolutely amazing
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  • Wow....
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  • Michael Clarke plus 1 year ago
    HDR timelapses, VERY cool.

    How are you batch processing those into HDR if you don't mind me asking?
  • Michael Clarke plus 1 year ago
    Looked into it and you already posted here:
    lookycreative.com/lang/en/timelapse-postproduction-workflow/

    Nice workflow write up.
  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Thanks. Glad it helps ;)
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  • Filip Kolakowski plus 1 year ago
    Fantastic !!!
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  • Bellographix 1 year ago
    One of the most beautiful time-lapse videos I've seen. Wow! You gotta show us how to color correct your stuff!!
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  • Saejos 1 year ago
    amazing. i really like the shots with the other cameras in them
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  • David Bolomey 1 year ago
    Fascinating and beautiful!
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  • Ang Pemba plus 1 year ago
    Fantastic timelapse...! wow drive cam slider...sounds good..
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  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Thanks for all your comments.
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  • Love Story Media plus 1 year ago
    Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Yep that's good stuff.
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  • Bommel 1 year ago
    that is amazing...
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  • Code2 1 year ago
    Very nice work!

    Also posted here: leganerd.com/2010/09/29/autumn-timelapse-by-drivecam%E2%84%A2-slider/

    Cheers from Italy.
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  • Tyler Krupa 1 year ago
    The color depth on the plow shots are amazing. I love your DriveCam slider set up
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  • Slacker 1 year ago
    Very nice work!!!
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  • Michał Leder 1 year ago
    Hi Patryk,

    > As you get more and more gear it is sometimes difficult to keep focused on shooting.

    Now I expect something creative from your new toys!

    Regarding HDR: This technique does not convince me on many shots here. I feel that you could use SDR there, and that's sufficient. I mean that HDR does not add anything here in the details of image but makes it look weird. Unlike when you photograph sky...

    Good luck in upcoming creations! Best regards from Lodz.
  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Thanks for your comment.
    To feed your expectations - I am starting a huge project right now, not only filmic, but rather sort of multimedia live show that will include also about 1h long non-narrative film. Will be probably released in the middle of 2011. Stay tuned!

    Regarding the HDR - I can't completely agree with you. My intention was to achieve sort of artificial and glamour sweet look which requires a great light and/or aggressive processing. I agree that a lot of scenes in fact did not require HDR approach because it was possible to capture them using the available 12-stop tonal range of the camera, BUT capturing them with -2/+2 bracketing allowed me to do much more aggressive processing as during the exposure stacking process the signal amplifies and the noise is being averaged and reduced. This sort of aggressive grading/postproduction would not be possible using single exposure timelapse or reel footage.
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  • Tim Sundal 1 year ago
    Fantastic! I like how you made some BTS timelaps too, so we could see the setup :)
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  • David Tao 1 year ago
    Wow! Wow! Wow!
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  • Dan Hashemi 1 year ago
    Really wicked!
    Great work...now I gotta find $1500 somewhere :(
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  • David Qualter 1 year ago
    Amazing.
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  • L'Arbre Marius 1 year ago
    Amazing ! We published on L'Arbre Marius !
    larbremarius.fr/2010/09/29/patryk-kizny-autumn/
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  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Thanks! Very poetic comment on your blog ;)
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  • David Pitts 1 year ago
    You definitely have the "WOW" Factor!!!
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  • Andrés Mejías 1 year ago
    what DSLR do you use to shot??? (awesome footage!!)
  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Mainly Canon 5D MKII, Canon 7D on some shots and Canon 30D, 50D selectively.
  • Andrés Mejías 1 year ago
    thanks man! Keep on making great stuff.
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  • Edward Smyła 1 year ago
    I really enjoyed the grading - especially in shots like 2:02. Splendid.
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  • Craig Whipps 1 year ago
    Really beautiful. Makes me want to move to Poland.
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  • patrick. sick work

    great color grading and non-flickery HDR timelapse work dude. awesome.

    that first part with the trees and the shot over the marsh is epic. nice one.
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  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Check the video carefully. There are a few shots that show crane-like motion when the slider was set up vertically. There are also BTS shots. We didn't have that tall tripod to put it exactly vertically, but it is not a problem for a slider.
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  • Laurent 1 year ago
    very nice...
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  • Jorge Del Toro 1 year ago
    Hey Patryk,

    Very inspiring work. I have a question. The colorization on the video? It looks amazing, what was used in order to get that almost glowing appeal to it?
  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Thank you for the comment.
    To make a long story short - a bit of talent mixed with pinch of software and experience :) Please check the URL in the description of the film referring to my TL workflow writeup. Also - check my comments above I detailed a few subjects.
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  • Fred Norquist plus 1 year ago
    that was incredible! very nice work
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  • Neil Macdonald 1 year ago
    Whatever it is you need to make good films you've got it!
    WOW.
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  • Terrific work Patryk! That slider is a fantastic tool and you made great use of it. Looking forward to seeing how you move forward with it.
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  • Mario Chavez 1 year ago
    By far one of the most amazing videos I have seen on here!!!
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  • Zach Stamey plus 1 year ago
    You're a MAD MAN! I wasn't really a fan of HDR but seeing this has changed my mind. HDR in time lapse is quite amazing and surreal. Brilliant!
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  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Thanks! You're all so kind!
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  • Dourado 1 year ago
    Can I go in the next ride? :)
    Excelent work!
  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Why not inviting us to Barcelona?
  • Dourado 1 year ago
    maybe we could arrange something... mmm...
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  • Sunchaser Pictures plus 1 year ago
    Awesome work!
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  • mozhenko 1 year ago
    Das ist Fantastik! I published it in my blog (on russian)

    mozhenko.blogspot.com/2010/10/das-ist-fantastik.html
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  • Trin plus 1 year ago
    want
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  • Bartłomiej 1 year ago
    Amazing!
    Fun to watch. Up nice to look at videos and pictures that you added.
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  • Artur Rusnac 1 year ago
    Fantastic !
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  • I own both the 7D and 5Dm2 and this is truly some of the best footage and timelapse shots I've seen for a while. The Slider is excellent too - something I will look into ;-)
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  • Alex Silak 1 year ago
    It's unreal, fantastic, excellent video!
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  • stefanescu liviu 1 year ago
    great movies by far...great hdr movies...
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  • what the camera?
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  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Mainly 5D, also 550D, 7D, 30D and 50D
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  • Benjamin Walters 1 year ago
    superb
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  • Carl Bertossi 1 year ago
    Woow that is so cool stuff !!

    What type of dolly you was using in this video ?

    Thanks for all
  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Please read the description carefully.
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  • Carl Bertossi 1 year ago
    O yes my Town Wrocław
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  • Edward Smyła 1 year ago
    Like a Canon Cavalry in action :)
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  • Christian Bloch plus 1 year ago
    Very nicely done, love the tasteful tonemapping
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  • Paul Sheehy 1 year ago
    WOW..That was one of the most insane thing I've seen in a while! Absolutely top class, well done!!!
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  • Jonathan 1 year ago
    Incredible! Fantastic work!
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  • Vladimir Tomin 1 year ago
    Beautiful shot, a lot of work but worth it.

    HDR videos/photos going to share same fate as high pass filter: more people discover it uglier it gets. It is easy to use but it also very easy to loose sense and make this effect too powerful. Same thing here, gentle HDR is definitely adds to whole shot, but when you can clearly see those soft borders, it kinda looking like bad example of high pass overusage. Best special FX is one when you can't even tell that this is special FX.

    My 2c.
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  • eistan 1 year ago
    Cool!!! ))))
    Whats the song ???!!! =))
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  • brian 1 year ago
    i like the film. but please stop confusing tonmapped images with real HDR. This just isn't. Looks just like a computergame to me, its nowhere near filmic. i am sure you spend a whole lot of work on this one. sorry mate. if youre talking HDR consider this .....

    red.cachefly.net/walk.m4v

    best
    b
  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    Brian, the film uses both techniques: an HDR exposure approach and as you noticed - the tone mapping. Each of frames of the film consists of 3 subexposures bracketed -2EV/0/+2EV merged into a 32bpp HDR color space and then tone mapped to 16 bit and finally to 8bit per pixel color depth. The sweet tonemapping effect that might seem exaggerated to you was intended.
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  • brian 1 year ago
    okay good job though :)
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  • xxxl 1 year ago
    Fabulous video-clip and excellent team-work!You are the best!
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  • Rafael Asquith plus 1 year ago
    A great video, I have to say thanks because I'm learning much about your work.

    Congratulations, the DriveCam™ Slider looks very good.
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  • Arthur Parratte 1 year ago
    Congrats, amazing work. Could you give me the name of the song please. Thanks a lot, keep going
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  • Fucking brilliant!
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  • Antonio Leal plus 1 year ago
    It's a fantastic and wonderful video!! very good!!
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  • Martins Kikulis 1 year ago
    Wow! This is really a fantastic peace!!
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  • Johnny R plus 1 year ago
    Great video...Haven't been to Poland for years, but I miss Wrocław now!

    What's the name of the song in the video btw?
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  • hiddenrivets 1 year ago
    neat. what about the music?
  • Xyo 1 year ago
    Yeaw, what about the music ? It's also amazing then your time-lapse !
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  • tomasz chrulski 1 year ago
    Not a big fun of HDR, but that is, actually, very good.
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  • Mohamad Alobidey 1 year ago
    awesome , work i like it , alos you have very nice slider . what kind did you used ?

    best
    MJM
  • Patryk Kizny plus 1 year ago
    It is a DitoGear Slider. Check it out at ditogear.com
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  • Sam Bonnett 1 year ago
    I love it when I'm this inspired... awesome!
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  • Peter L 1 year ago
    excellent piece!
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