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Project info @ vimeo.com/channels/keithloutitssydney

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.

The Service depends entirely on the generous support of sponsors and the community to stay flying. Donations can be made here:
lifesaver.org.au/funding_challenge/donate.html

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
Project info @ vimeo.com/channels/keithloutitssydney

Thank you,

Keith.
  • Eric Mortelmans 9 months ago
    Keith, you did it again! Even better...
  • Keith Loutit plus 9 months ago
    Thanks Eric!
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  • Bruno Mueller 9 months ago
    Very nicely done. Great Job!
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  • GP5150 9 months ago
    nice !
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  • Hak en Haai 9 months ago
    The king of tilt-shifting has done it again..
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  • BumKi Cho plus 9 months ago
    So fascinating!! Everytime!!
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  • Lucasberg (Joey) plus 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months ago
    This is amazing, nice work Keith!
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  • Andrew Curtis 9 months ago
    Awesome!
  • Keith Loutit plus 9 months ago
    Thanks Andrew.
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  • Richard Huntington 9 months ago
    Nice work!
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  • gianni tumino 9 months ago
    Great Tilt-Shift video. Bravo!
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  • Bracken James Batson 9 months ago
    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 9 months ago
    Bracken - Thanks mate - and thanks for setting up the group.
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  • Landon Acohido 9 months ago
    Best to date... congrats!
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  • Kissaki 9 months 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 9 months ago
    Thank you Alex!
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  • Bhautik Joshi 9 months 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 9 months ago
    Brilliant, absolutely Brilliant!
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  • Dan Valentine plus 9 months ago
    Superb, yet again Keith.
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  • Tony Eckersley 9 months ago
    Oh man, this is amazing - truly inspiring work. Which tilt shift are you using?
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  • WeSee 9 months ago
    superb! the best of the series.
    awsome!!!
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  • Brian 9 months ago
    Very cool. I've never seen this effect before. Awesome stuff.
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  • Lisa Kehler 9 months ago
    As always, SMOKIN'! Your tilt shift work is definitely at the top of my favorite Vimeo stuff!
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  • Teddy Pemberton 9 months ago
    haha! that little toy helicopter made me laugh.
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  • Don Solosan 9 months ago
    First you make the world look like toys, and then you create a great sense of drama. Well done!
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  • Jacob Ammentorp Lund 9 months 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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  • Ettu 9 months 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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  • Wolfgang Gaebler plus 9 months ago
    This is a stopmotion movie, right... ;-))

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

    I like it - really!
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  • doctordurden 9 months ago
    Keith!, BRAVO!!!!! 5*****
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  • RaxcraX 9 months ago
    like it!
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  • Alex Stone plus 9 months ago
    I thoroughly enjoy these. Awesome work, man. These are phenomenal
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  • Tyler Briley 9 months 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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  • Antonio Pinto Ribeiro 9 months ago
    Everything feels so childhoodlike safe and simple. I like viewing the world like this.
    It feels good! Thank you
  • guy barstow 8 months ago
    how wonderfully put!! I concur wholeheartedly!
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  • Michael Randolph plus 9 months ago
    Brilliant! I love that there is a narrative element to it.
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  • Kevin Paolozzi plus 9 months 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 9 months ago
    the helicopter resembles on a wasp
    it's so funny
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  • Gasher 9 months 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 9 months ago
    Fantastic video!
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  • Marley plus 9 months ago
    Once again Keith fantastic video. You have to tell me some of these spots you film from...
  • Keith Loutit plus 8 months ago
    Thanks Marley - Are you based in Sydney?
  • Marley plus 8 months ago
    Yeah I live in Sydney, Campbelltown.....
  • Keith Loutit plus 8 months ago
    great - would love to speak to you about locations.
  • Marley plus 8 months ago
    Same here Keith, Love to talk locations...
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  • Entorno Natura 9 months ago
    Un trabajo fantástico. Me ha encantado. ¿Es real o una maqueta?
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  • RaxcraX 9 months ago
    stopmotion!!!!
    me encantaaa este videeoo!!
    te lo as currradoo!!!!
    que camara usas?
    cannon?
    creeeo que si!!!!

    saludos!
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  • MidnightStar Video plus 9 months ago
    Wonderful, the colors are amazing!
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  • A Musing Propaganda 9 months ago
    Very nice.
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  • Todd Burleson 9 months ago
    This was tremendous! I really like the story and I love the tilt-shift style.

    TB
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  • MeatPunch plus 9 months 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 9 months ago
    Simply Mesmerizing. What a treat !
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  • Wyatt McCallum 9 months 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] plus 9 months ago
    Wow that was amazing...
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  • Nicholas Lavallee plus 9 months ago
    Absolutely wonderful, thanks Keith!
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  • Joel 9 months 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 9 months ago
    awesome.
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  • Pigeon Pictures 9 months ago
    ...! thank u Keith
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  • CoPa Productions 9 months ago
    1st Place...
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  • Tim Pass 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months ago
    great !
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  • Tomas Egger 9 months 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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  • Leonardo Amaro 9 months ago
    OoOo!!!
    Really great, man in my opinion this is the best of your videos. Congrats.
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  • JORGEFRIED 9 months ago
    Wow, very cool!
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  • Drew T 9 months 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 9 months ago
    Thanks Drew!
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  • Christian Strupp plus 9 months ago
    Great. Really great!
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  • Jesus 9 months ago
    Very Good!!
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  • High Order! 9 months 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. 9 months 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 9 months ago
    I love trying to identify the beaches around Sydney in your videos. I spy Bondi, Camp Cove, and La Perouse.
  • Keith Loutit plus 9 months 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 9 months ago
    cool
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  • The Fibro Twins 9 months ago
    i am in awe sir
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  • Tisiwoota 9 months ago
    I agree, best in the series :)
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  • Absolutely fantastic!
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  • Bill Petropoulos plus 9 months ago
    Fantastic work.
    I'm gonna get me a tilt-shift lens.
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  • Martin Frericks 9 months ago
    alway stunning how tilt-shift messes with your brain :)
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  • Martin Whipp 9 months 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 plus 9 months ago
    you win once again
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  • Dan Riha 9 months 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 9 months ago
    This is cute and touching and amazingly done!
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  • Evan Norris 9 months ago
    Truly Amazing. I was wondering if that poor man was going to get rescued! Thanks for sharing!!!
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  • Kathy Stanley 9 months 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 plus 9 months ago
    WOW. Great Job
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  • Good & Salmon-movie 9 months ago
    You are famous people here. I live in South Korea.
  • Keith Loutit plus 9 months ago
    Hi Lee&Salmon, Thanks for letting me know!
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  • pixeljaeger 9 months ago
    that is cool video !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    diepixeljaeger (markus)
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  • pixeljaeger 9 months ago
    ...and music.
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  • Jon Lee 9 months ago
    You're a fraking genius!!! You should make a feature movie in this style.
  • Keith Loutit plus 9 months ago
    Thanks Jon!
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  • bigyahu 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months ago
    this is absolutely fantastic.... I can't stop watching it over and over.... you, sir.. have an amazing talent..
  • Keith Loutit plus 8 months ago
    Thanks Paulo!
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