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This was an HDR time-lapse from Twin Peaks. It was a glorious moment because mother nature was behaving, unlike the last 2 early morning efforts where I was too fogged in. I was also shooting with my new Nikon D700 and a new 14-24mm ultrawide which is just a great combo since the D700 is a full frame camera!

Music is RJD2's remix of Astrud Gilberto's, Gentle Rain. ABC News here in SF did a cool little piece on My HDR Time-lapse work- You can see the video here: abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/drive_to_discover&id=6362682

I also have my work flow for this posted here:
chadrichard.typepad.com/timelapse/2008/06/how-to-make-an.html

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  • Paul Klinger plus 3 years ago
    Simply beautiful footage. I loved when the fog rolled in :)
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  • Ulf Holmström 3 years ago
    Incredible, how did you do it? Astonoshing!!
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    Ulf - I have my workflow posted here:
    chadrichard.typepad.com/timelapse/
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  • Byron 3 years ago
    omg! hallucinatory!!
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  • Jon Read 3 years ago
    This is quite simply inspiring. I've never played with my Nikon's intervalometer... now I know I need to give it a go!

    Excellent work.
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    THN Jon - glad you dig it.
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  • Goldenboi24k 3 years ago
    I wish your timelapses were longer. There all good, but way too short. You should try shooting at an interval of 1-2 second. Try to make a time lapse over 90 secs :)
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    yeah its all about being out there longer as opposed to speeding it up (in my opinion). Especially when you are taking 7 frames per exposure. I unfortunately had to get to work. My stuff from Oregon was longer because I could set up for 5 hours at a time which was great.
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  • Goldenboi24k 3 years ago
    Also I LOVE the fog movement :)
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  • Stephen Lewis plus 3 years ago
    Awesome stuff! What was the music?
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    THNX - YES the music... it is: RJD2's remix of Astrud Gilberto's, Gentle Rain.
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  • MILapse 3 years ago
    wants, wants, wants. Nice!
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  • Retner 3 years ago
    niice!
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  • Goldenboi24k 3 years ago
    What animal was that running down the hill at the beginning lol.. ?
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    That was my dog Baxter! He hits most of the early morning shoots with me ; - )
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  • jason good 3 years ago
    Remote Camera setups...
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  • Dome3D 3 years ago
    That is just awesome, I wanted more!!!!
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  • Jeremiah Jacobs 3 years ago
    just.....wow. Jaw dropping. It's like a Maxfield Parrish coming alive.
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  • Lonnie Petersheim 3 years ago
    nice
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  • Sugoi 3 years ago
    Absolutely magnificent :)

    Excellent!!!
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  • KMV_Master 3 years ago
    How much shots?
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  • Jaweed Kaleem 3 years ago
    Very awesome
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  • Adriana de Barros 3 years ago
    Very nice!
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  • Christopher Prouse 3 years ago
    wowza
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  • Bad95Killer Studio 3 years ago
    superb
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  • This is so beautiful!
    Thank you for your effort in producing and posting this!
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  • mike pulcinella 3 years ago
    Beautiful!! But why was it flickering a bit?
  • Martin Taylor 3 years ago
    Because it's made up of still photographs, not video
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  • Matías Rothkopf 3 years ago
    Yeah!!!!!!!
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  • Jonathan Poritsky 3 years ago
    Awesome technique!
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  • Daniel Hayek pro 3 years ago
    I'm an HDR photomotion whore, love it.
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  • Justin Scheidt plus 3 years ago
    Very nice work
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  • Edsel D 3 years ago
    Loved it, but i'd love it way more if you fixed the flickering!
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  • Samu Ainesmaa 3 years ago
    Loved it :)
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  • express49 3 years ago
    I heard myself WOWING !
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  • Mase Face 3 years ago
    Pretty bad ass
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  • Jasper 3 years ago
    amazing man (Y)
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  • tim 3 years ago
    brilliant.
    almost surreally beautiful.
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  • Rick R. 3 years ago
    Absolutely beautiful! I love the fog!
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  • coldarchon 3 years ago
    omg I SOOOO wanna live right at the view point ..
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  • Lorena Cruz 3 years ago
    this makes san francisco even more amazing.
    i love this
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  • This is the first HDR time lapse I'v seen. Awsome man! What was the total time here?
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    I was up there for about 2.5 houors - it starts a bit shilly and you are happy when that sun comes up!
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  • Terry Helstrom 3 years ago
    Man, this makes me want to be back in SF soon. Every time my wife and go we never have time to get up to Twin Peaks. Next time for sure. Beautiful video!
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  • kaspars 3 years ago
    this is SOMETHING! really beautiful. especially beginnig when there is this blue/orange in sky and on ground. those lights and so. like it very much.
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  • Cynthia Holladay 3 years ago
    Nicely done.
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  • Anton Seim plus 3 years ago
    So you took multiple exposures of every frame and then made a sequence out of the HDR images? That's brilliant man, very beautiful. Thanks for sharing it.
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    Glad you dig it! Yeah there is a news segment viewable here on how it is done plus a full post on my work flow available here:
    chadrichard.typepad.com/timelapse/
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  • Loveland Plant Hire 3 years ago
    that gave me a lump in my throat to see sf again. beautiful:)
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  • Jenny Woo plus 3 years ago
    nice! i miss the view from twin peaks. and yes, it is tough getting a non-foggy view from there.
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  • Mikiel M. 3 years ago
    That's awesome, it looks animated!
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  • Bukanza 3 years ago
    stunning. thanks for sharing this.
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  • Henry 3 years ago
    Wow amazing!

    Did you tweek with the colors, or is that the natural colors?
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    I did some post processing of the HDR in LightRoom 2 but this was all pretty much straight HDR processing.
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  • Phillip Yip 3 years ago
    looks great. how long were you up there? must have been chilly..
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  • michael baca 3 years ago
    wow, chad that was awesome. it would be so awesome if you would let me use that as a short b-roll establishing shot in the beginning of a student film im shooting today. i will give you full credit of course, i just think its awesome and it would work perfectly for my film.
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    That would be cool... you can download it from here....
  • michael baca 3 years ago
    cool. wow i said awesome 3 times in that comment. feel kinda dumb. anyways, thanks. ill let you know if i end up using it-if so ill show you the final product!
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  • luisa 3 years ago
    Beautiful!!!Thanks.
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  • jerm speaks 3 years ago
    Great. I really want to go there the next time I go to SF.
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  • Richard Huntington 3 years ago
    Wow, beautiful!
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  • Alex Ellenberg 3 years ago
    This looks amazing.
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  • TKTODD 3 years ago
    Sweet!! The HDR looks great!
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  • DongJai 3 years ago
    Great.....
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  • Febe Giaquinto 3 years ago
    This was AMAZING Chad! Thanks for sharing.
    I'm new to all this stuff and I learn from people like you..so really, thanks so much!!! :)
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    It is definitely cool having people hanging out here on Vimeo sharing their work. We all get to learn from each other... Good luck!
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  • Chris McMahon plus 3 years ago
    Way rad.
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  • katman 3 years ago
    stunning to say the least!
    These time lapse videos always intrigue me =)
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  • Robert Marty 3 years ago
    You just gave me a great idea!!!
    This is cool sh#t.
    Try a longer one.
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  • AdamKaplan plus 3 years ago
    This would make a great screen saver!! Nice Job
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  • Cody Westheimer 3 years ago
    Incredible!
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  • magen1 3 years ago
    awsome!
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  • toolance 3 years ago
    So gorgeous! I'm goming to San Fran this weekend for the first time and I cant wait after seeing this.
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  • n. hagen 3 years ago
    amazingly beautiful
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  • Edy Pons 3 years ago
    awesome!!! I was there just one week ago.
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  • Santi Lafarga 3 years ago
    Very very nice!!
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  • Sasha Fornari plus 3 years ago
    omg omg!!! so great with the music! nice work! :)
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    Sasha - music adds so much... it is always fun to pla with different soundtracks to get see the emotive changes that the music brings
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  • Christian Arca 3 years ago
    You captured an amazing scene. Congratulations.
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    Thnx Christian - - it took a few (cold) mornings of not such great results ; - )
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  • totally awesome
    you really captured the magic!
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  • Vaclav Chaloupka 3 years ago
    Very nice, I can't wait to try that. Do you mind two questions?
    - The movie is flickering a bit. It looks like there are frames with a different exposure sometimes. Do you know why is that? Have you tried to fix it?
    - If you are only bracketing +/- 2EV, can't you just shot 1 RAW and generate 3 jpeg images from there? I guess the RAW has a bit broader dynamic range so it should be possible. Or load the RAW directly to Photomatix?
    Thanks
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    I am bracketing 7 exposures total so you could not get that dynamic range from a RAW... Flicker is my nemesis... and camera shake too.
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  • Cameron Evil 3 years ago
    Cant wait to try this out with my D700... this is AWESOME !!!
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  • Celeste Vasquez 3 years ago
    this is stunning.
    how did you get to this location?
    i feel like i can see my apartment in the shot.
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    this is the top of twin peaks - right at the main look out area...
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  • Jibrail 3 years ago
    Gods Creation!
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  • Shamir Ramjan 3 years ago
    Excellent.
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  • FRANCO Noseda 3 years ago
    Seems the dawn of a city on Mars.
    The film draws you into the screen, very good idea, nice job.
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  • www.time-lapse.fr 3 years ago
    Very good text about you on the ABC News web site. Could I consider that I'm too in the dozen of guy who made HDR timelapses around the world ! Nice job and nice full bracketing timelapses !
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  • Steven Vlaso 3 years ago
    Amazing! Awesome fog... Very beautiful...
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  • Ryan Heatley 3 years ago
    Great job man!
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  • Gabriel Mellin plus 3 years ago
    Incredible!!!
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  • Anthony Vu 3 years ago
    sweeeeet!
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  • Phil Ball 3 years ago
    Awesome footage Chad, I do a lot of Timelapse and it's nice to see it done well

    FLICKER! the old digi timelapse problem, probably caused by the camera only being able to alter the exposure in 1/3 stops as the light increases.
    the other problem I get with my Older and cheaper lenses is caused by the apeture leaves 'parking' in a subtly different position at each exposure because the lens stops open between frames
    if you use an old manual Nikon lens and partly take it off
    (just to the point where the apeture shuts down to where you have set it) the flicker will go. (if it's the lens that is causing it ) you can make it safe by drilling a hole in the rear metal surface of the lens about 5mm further round from the current hole ( the hole that the locking pin clicks into when you put the lens on)
    problem is you'll then have to shoot the whole thing on manual and the pain of a 3 hour manual stop pull timelapse should not be under estimated (I've done a few)
    I'm also not sure this will allow the Bracketing function that your HDR needs,
    so I Reckon you need a software program that will smooth out the exposure.

    a question, how do you set the exposure? is it metering off the ground?

    I think you need a big heavy tripod, or some weights

    this stuff should be making you some money

    keep up the good work,

    Phil
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  • Goldenboi24k 3 years ago
    I saw the dog run down and not come back up.
    What happened lol..
  • Chad Richard plus 3 years ago
    he came back - i assure you!
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  • Goldenboi24k 3 years ago
    I'm so jealous, this video gets over 400 views a day !!!!!
    How is that even possible..
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  • N0rD 3 years ago
    its awesome! bravo!
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  • till 3 years ago
    Nice, not sure what kinda compliment I can add here. I should add that you just made me buy that music track on iTunes though.
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