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©2009 COPYRIGHT - All Rights reserved
Project info @ keithloutit.com
My stock library: youtube.com/user/tiltshiftstock?feature=mhee

This is a personal project that would not have been possible without the support of the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service. Thanks to the entire team for their generous access during training exercises and patrols this Summer. Since the Service began in 1973, it has carried out more than 21,000 missions ranging from urgent patient transfers to dangerous search and rescue missions.

This film is 100% 'real', but there are some new techniques for me here, such as using time lapse to create the illusion of forward movement for the helicopter ocean scenes. These flight sequences would not be possible without the skill and patience of Chief Pilot Peter Yates. Thanks also to Trevor Cracknell (for getting wet!) and Family.

Music:

“CLEMENTINE” (Megan Washington)
Performed by Washington
© 2008 J Albert & Son Pty Limited
Used with permission

myspace.com/meganwashington

Artist Info @ keithloutit.com

Thank you,

Keith.
  • Eric Mortelmans 3 years ago
    Keith, you did it again! Even better...
  • Keith Loutit plus 3 years ago
    Thanks Eric!
  • HDtimelapse.net 15 days ago
    Great job Keith!

    hdtimelapse.net
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  • Bruno Mueller 3 years ago
    Very nicely done. Great Job!
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  • GP5150 3 years ago
    nice !
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  • Hak en Haai 3 years ago
    The king of tilt-shifting has done it again..
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  • BumKi Cho plus 3 years ago
    So fascinating!! Everytime!!
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  • Lucasberg (Joey) 3 years ago
    This is so awesome. It reminds me of the Thunderbirds recue puppet show from the 70's.
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  • Jared Foster plus 3 years ago
    I love the story. It is amazing what you can do and the music was fantastic.

    I can only imagine what the pilot was thinking when he was hovering there and was wondering what the heck was this photographer asking him to do?
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  • Nick Keating 3 years ago
    This is amazing, nice work Keith!
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  • Andrew Curtis 3 years ago
    Awesome!
  • Keith Loutit plus 3 years ago
    Thanks Andrew.
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  • Richard Huntington 3 years ago
    Nice work!
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  • gianni tumino 3 years ago
    Great Tilt-Shift video. Bravo!
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  • I just can't believe it. Just amazing. You've really taken your tilt shift to the next next level and put a story on it. - and what an unbelievable production! Bravo!
  • Keith Loutit plus 3 years ago
    Bracken - Thanks mate - and thanks for setting up the group.
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  • Landon Acohido plus 3 years ago
    Best to date... congrats!
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  • Kissaki 3 years ago
    This so looks like a miniature world.

    Wonderful vid.
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  • Your best for sure. Just the variety of shots and angles and cutting was phenomenal. Well done sir. The sky is the limit for you Keith!
  • Keith Loutit plus 3 years ago
    Thank you Alex!
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  • Bhautik Joshi 3 years ago
    Brilliantly done :) I agree with the other comments - this one really does have a great narrative thread through it :)
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  • TrepTower 3 years ago
    Brilliant, absolutely Brilliant!
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  • Dan Valentine plus 3 years ago
    Superb, yet again Keith.
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  • Tony Eckersley 3 years ago
    Oh man, this is amazing - truly inspiring work. Which tilt shift are you using?
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  • Al Barao 3 years ago
    superb! the best of the series.
    awsome!!!
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  • Brian 3 years ago
    Very cool. I've never seen this effect before. Awesome stuff.
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  • Lisa Kehler 3 years ago
    As always, SMOKIN'! Your tilt shift work is definitely at the top of my favorite Vimeo stuff!
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  • Teddy Pemberton 3 years ago
    haha! that little toy helicopter made me laugh.
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  • Don Solosan 3 years ago
    First you make the world look like toys, and then you create a great sense of drama. Well done!
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  • Ammentorp 3 years ago
    Wauw!! This is amazing.. The combination of excellent photography with a story is beautiful. You are truly the master of tilt and shift photography.
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  • James Leng 3 years ago
    immensely inspirational. your meticulous craft motivates me to step up my own timelapse experiments (and lust for a tilt-shift lens too!)
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  • This is a stopmotion movie, right... ;-))

    You've used thousand small puppets... be honest! ;-)))

    I like it - really!
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  • doctordurden 3 years ago
    Keith!, BRAVO!!!!! 5*****
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  • like it!
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  • Alex Stone plus 3 years ago
    I thoroughly enjoy these. Awesome work, man. These are phenomenal
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  • Tyler Briley 3 years ago
    I thought you were just going to sit there at :38 and watch that guy get smashed by the rocks!!

    That was great!
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  • Everything feels so childhoodlike safe and simple. I like viewing the world like this.
    It feels good! Thank you
  • guy barstow 3 years ago
    how wonderfully put!! I concur wholeheartedly!
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  • Michael Randolph plus 3 years ago
    Brilliant! I love that there is a narrative element to it.
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  • Kevin Paolozzi 3 years ago
    Awesome video ;)

    Have you noticed in wear down on your computer as a result of this technique?
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  • Frederic Vercammen plus 3 years ago
    the helicopter resembles on a wasp
    it's so funny
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  • Gasher 3 years ago
    Absolutely loved it. I am fascinated with tilt/shift photography and this video makes the "miniature world" come alive. The shot from the hangar roof is great. Now I need to settle in to looking through the rest of your stuff.
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  • Renato Dibelčar 3 years ago
    Fantastic video!
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  • Marley 3 years ago
    Once again Keith fantastic video. You have to tell me some of these spots you film from...
  • Keith Loutit plus 3 years ago
    Thanks Marley - Are you based in Sydney?
  • Marley 3 years ago
    Yeah I live in Sydney, Campbelltown.....
  • Keith Loutit plus 3 years ago
    great - would love to speak to you about locations.
  • Marley 3 years ago
    Same here Keith, Love to talk locations...
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  • Entorno Natura 3 years ago
    Un trabajo fantástico. Me ha encantado. ¿Es real o una maqueta?
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  • stopmotion!!!!
    me encantaaa este videeoo!!
    te lo as currradoo!!!!
    que camara usas?
    cannon?
    creeeo que si!!!!

    saludos!
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  • Curtis Edwards plus 3 years ago
    Wonderful, the colors are amazing!
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  • A Musing Propaganda 3 years ago
    Very nice.
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  • Todd Burleson plus 3 years ago
    This was tremendous! I really like the story and I love the tilt-shift style.

    TB
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  • MeatPunch 3 years ago
    I am a fan of all of your videos. This one is the best work you have done, and the best video using Tilt-shift I have ever seen. I cant wait to see what you come up with next ... !!
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  • Scott Cappahayden 3 years ago
    Simply Mesmerizing. What a treat !
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  • Wyatt McCallum plus 3 years ago
    Easily one of the best short films I have ever seen.
    I'm completely serious as well.
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  • Jason Wun [Twenty5] 3 years ago
    Wow that was amazing...
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  • Nicholas Lavallee 3 years ago
    Absolutely wonderful, thanks Keith!
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  • Joel 3 years ago
    wow - just amazing.
    the absoultely best timelapse/tilt-shift video ive ever seen.

    what do you use to compile the images?
    hell - how long must it take to render!
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  • Alec Sky 3 years ago
    awesome.
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  • Pigeon P. 3 years ago
    ...! thank u Keith
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  • CoPa Productions 3 years ago
    1st Place...
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  • Tim Pass plus 3 years ago
    Amazing video! I have only recently started looking into tilt-shift and now I now aspire to make something this good. I grew up on the south coast but am living in wintery Canada for now. How I miss home watching this...
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  • Jarbas Agnelli plus 3 years ago
    Wonderful. You tilt-shift reality, transporting us to another dimension, where mankind is in it's real scale. We are so small in this world and the universe, and we have such big egos!

    Congrats. Amazing, sensible work. Thanks for the trip.
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  • GP5150 3 years ago
    great !
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  • Tomas Egger 3 years ago
    Makes me wonder... How good is take care of each other.
    This lens trick move our minds to another reality.. and You added in a bag of tricks a friendly story.

    Congrats.
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  • Leo 3 years ago
    OoOo!!!
    Really great, man in my opinion this is the best of your videos. Congrats.
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  • JORGEFRIED 3 years ago
    Wow, very cool!
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  • Drew T 3 years ago
    Hey Keith,

    I'm back! I've waited months for your next installment and let me say it did not disappoint. This is one of your best--I just can't say enough good things about it.

    Someone should give you funding for a full-length film. ;)

    Can't wait for whatever's next!
  • Keith Loutit plus 3 years ago
    Thanks Drew!
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  • Christian Strupp plus 3 years ago
    Great. Really great!
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  • Jesus Marin 3 years ago
    Very Good!!
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  • High Order! 3 years ago
    This is amazing, best one yet. Your work is so inspiring. I look forward to the next installment soon!
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  • Greg F. 3 years ago
    This video rocks!!! I didn't read the description before I watched it and thought the rescue was real! haha

    This is a really great example of how even time-lapse video can be used to tell a great story.

    Great job. :)
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  • Brendan Falkowski 3 years ago
    I love trying to identify the beaches around Sydney in your videos. I spy Bondi, Camp Cove, and La Perouse.
  • Keith Loutit plus 3 years ago
    Hey Brendan - Thats right. The other beach scenes were dogs at Little Bay, and the DHL tent at Tamarama. Cheers,
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  • Mark Rigler plus 3 years ago
    cool
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  • The Fibro Twins 3 years ago
    i am in awe sir
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  • Tisiwoota 3 years ago
    I agree, best in the series :)
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  • Absolutely fantastic!
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  • Bill Petropoulos 3 years ago
    Fantastic work.
    I'm gonna get me a tilt-shift lens.
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  • Martin Frericks 3 years ago
    alway stunning how tilt-shift messes with your brain :)
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  • Martin Whipp 3 years ago
    Great stuff as usual Keith!

    Love the fact that this has a storyline to it, rather than just nice images. Good idea.

    Maybe you could do one with trains sometime and get Ringo Starr to narrate it! Peep Peep!

    Keep it up mate.
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  • This is amazing! All your videos are great but the fact that this one has a story makes it even better! Plus it supports a good cause.
    Story-telling is a path I believe you should follow.
    Great work!
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  • Sean Bergeson 3 years ago
    you win once again
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  • Dan Riha 3 years ago
    I don't see any reason why this couldn't win an Oscar for Best Documentary: Short Subject. Touching and beautiful. Very well done.
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  • Natalie Perkins 3 years ago
    This is cute and touching and amazingly done!
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  • Evan Norris 3 years ago
    Truly Amazing. I was wondering if that poor man was going to get rescued! Thanks for sharing!!!
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  • Kathy Stanley 3 years ago
    A friend sent this to me and now I can't wait to send it many others. First time I've ever seen anything like this. Enjoyed it even more the second time I watched it. You have quite a talent.... I'm going to look for your other stuff.
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  • Vitor Groba 3 years ago
    WOW. Great Job
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  • Good & Salmon-movie 3 years ago
    You are famous people here. I live in South Korea.
  • Keith Loutit plus 3 years ago
    Hi Lee&Salmon, Thanks for letting me know!
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  • pixeljaeger 3 years ago
    that is cool video !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    diepixeljaeger (markus)
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  • pixeljaeger 3 years ago
    ...and music.
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  • Jon Lee 3 years ago
    You're a fraking genius!!! You should make a feature movie in this style.
  • Keith Loutit plus 3 years ago
    Thanks Jon!
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  • Alan Jones plus 3 years ago
    it's incredible! the follow shots behind the chopper over the ocean particularly, so good i can almost see the string moving the chopper! the red/white stripes on the chopper's blades and top really lend themselves to this, and the shine off the glass canopy when it's coming in and out of the hangar make it look just like plastic.
  • Keith Loutit plus 3 years ago
    Thanks Bigyahu,
    This follow shot is actually an illusion, the helicopter is hovering in a holding pattern, but the movement of the water & clouds sped up under timelapse makes it look like its moving forward.
    Cheers, Keith.
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  • Chris Paterson 3 years ago
    Hi Guys,

    My company does after the IT side of things for the boys and girls out at Larpa. As Keith said they are always desperately in need of extra funding especially since the loss of the Ambulance NSW contract so please everyone dig deep and donate! :)

    Ohh btw I've always loved the your tilt shift work.
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  • Paulo Delgado 3 years ago
    this is absolutely fantastic.... I can't stop watching it over and over.... you, sir.. have an amazing talent..
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