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2. Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam
2 months ago
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is an amazing up and coming city. This time lapse is a culmination of 10,000 RAW images and multiple shoots capturing some of the cities relentless energy and pace of change.

Everyone who has visited Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam knows part of the magic (love it or hate it) is in the traffic. Ever since I first set foot in HCMC I have been captivated by the cities energy. Saigon is a city on the move unlike anything I have experienced before which I wanted to capture and share.

Thanks to everyone who helped with the film and thanks also to the numerous kind people who allowed me access to some amazing locations.

Soundtrack to the video is the energetic Mondo'77 by Looper - z6.co.uk/sy
Used with permission.

The Word HCMC magazine has published a Q&A interview with some background information on the project: tinyurl.com/88jp6vn

Copyright © All Images Rob Whitworth 2011 - robwhitworth.co.uk

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  • Lara Rose 2 months ago
    Wow, even loved credits, saved the best to last.
  • Joe Simon Films plus 2 months ago
    Yes, the credit sequence was great! Kill job on this, love the motion
  • HDtimelapse.net 2 months ago
    Great job Rob!

    hdtimelapse.net
  • Jonilo Nguyen 2 months ago
    love that ending part
  • Hung Cuong 2 months ago
    this is a total killer!
  • Philip Bloom pro 1 month ago
    A creative tour de force...brilliant
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  • Andreas Coerper 2 months ago
    Super!
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  • Ben Logan 2 months ago
    very cool, great job!
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  • Miguel Gonçalves 2 months ago
    Awesome!
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  • basil genimahaliotis 2 months ago
    Nice work mate and great upbeat soundtrack !
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  • Quinn Ryan Mattingly 2 months ago
    kick ass work bro. I live here and see that everyday, and still blew me away.
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  • Richard Nguyen 2 months ago
    Time lapse like a boss!!
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  • Iruna Kuroda 2 months ago
    you either love it or hate it... COOL
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  • KiDo 2 months ago
    thanks Rob for making this great work!!
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  • Anh-Tuan Hoang 2 months ago
    amazing work Rob !!!
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  • Thanh Nguyen 2 months ago
    Hi Rob, I'm Vietnamese and I grew up at HCM City as well. I really love this clip. AWESOME!!! It clearly depicts traffic in Vietnam. It make me miss Vietnam so much guys! Great work!!!
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  • poutch 2 months ago
    Fantastic video! Made me want to go there again, great city!
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  • Christine Jane 2 months ago
    Amazing! Thanks for sharing! :)
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  • Le Thanh Tung 2 months ago
    Wow, I live in Saigon but I never ever see that, amazing!
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  • Anh Dinh 2 months ago
    Fantastic work!
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  • Mark Grayson 2 months ago
    Just brilliant
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  • GoodDay 2 months ago
    Best time-lapse I've seen!
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  • Thomas Ryan 2 months ago
    Rob, this is great. You have inspired me :D
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  • Jemie 2 months ago
    Amazingly stunning and beautiful!! I, we LOVE your work, really appreciate it and your distribute to spread this out. ^^ Keep it up! Love all your photos
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  • Tony Le 2 months ago
    smooth like butter
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  • Caroline Liou 2 months ago
    Nice!
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  • George Levitikos 2 months ago
    Amazing!!!
    posted @ Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam post.ly/4ANM0
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  • Tia Seifert 2 months ago
    This is very, very good. Every detail is seamless!
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  • Mark Mountford 2 months ago
    Amazing! How long did it take to put it all together from taking that first shot to exporting the last frame?
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  • Sam Morrill staff 2 months ago
    I love how you use digital zoom and pan in this.
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  • Jason Sondhi staff 2 months ago
    I'm just happy for a time-lapse that's reasonably upbeat.
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  • Martijn Willemen 2 months ago
    Amazing!!
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  • justforfun 2 months ago
    You nailed this one man. Great work.
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  • Ammar Salem plus 2 months ago
    Amazing use of digital zoom & pan that really make it a piece of art.
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  • Jean-Philippe Goussot 2 months ago
    Nice! Yes, the zoom & pan make the difference.

    Note: i'm not sure talking about "10 000 raw images" makes sense, because at that point it's just a video work, only at (n)fps (and in that case, "n" = much less than the regular 24). No ?

    Question: how can you achieve the smooth pan? do you use a special tripod, or is it post-produced?

    (coming from The Daily What)
  • SECRET LAB plus 1 month ago
    from the Word HCMC magazine: Angle and Pan
    For any camera enthusiasts wanting to know how the zooms and pans were achieved in his time-lapse, Rob Whitworth says that the camera movements were all implemented during post-production using Adobe After Effects.
    “I've played around with in-camera movements but they're limited and unsatisfying,” he adds. “The RAW footage from D-SLRs is very high resolution, which makes it possible to achieve zooms, crops and pans that wouldn't normally be possible in-camera.”
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  • Ozcan Celik 2 months ago
    Shotting same footage with different exposures is a good idea! Awesome.
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  • Holger Mette plus 2 months ago
    Awesome work on the footage and editing - looks like you really thought out the sequences - looking forward to seeing some more!
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  • DJVIBE TV 2 months ago
    what was the reason behind shooting RAW format? I noticed some very HDR style looks to some of the lapses. I heard you can make an HDR from a single RAW image. Is that why you did it this way?? GReat work BTW!!
  • AV Artisan plus 2 months ago
    It totally allows you to zoom in and pan around like crazy in post
  • moritz k. 2 months ago
    You can zoom an pan with Jpegs as well. But when you shoot timelapse and have the storage capacities you'd rather go for maximum quality (i.e. RAW).
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  • Fazie 2 months ago
    One of the best time lapse I ever seen! Amazing work.
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  • phirakhup 2 months ago
    Fantastic!!
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  • Roman S plus 2 months ago
    Great work!!!
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  • How did you manage to get that clean plate of the square? Shot on Sunday or extensive post production efforts?

    Great work, btw.
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  • Martin Sundholm 2 months ago
    Brilliant. Well done.
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  • Acromatik plus 2 months ago
    One of the best time-lapse movies I've ever seen. Great music, the end feels like a kaleidoscope !!
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  • cipri01 2 months ago
    EPIC! amazing work!!! congrats!
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  • Corey Lucero 2 months ago
    This is awesome....one question - what time was it when there was absolutely no one in the round about?!?!?! or was that shopped?
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  • This is excellent!
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  • The Panda Rabbit 2 months ago
    this was beyond amazing. the cinematography was on point and i even love the little gas break you added.. fun
  • guillermo castellanos 2 months ago
    I'm totally agree
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  • Jonathan Danforth 2 months ago
    I love it!!
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  • Wen jun 2 months ago
    one word, awesome
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  • BreadBox.it 2 months ago
    Awesome! Makes you wanna go back travelling!
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  • Boris Lenhardt 2 months ago
    gagagagaga.. incredible!!
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  • Leon Frind 2 months ago
    the footage of those moving ships is just incredible. took my breath!
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  • Maxx Capps 2 months ago
    Great song Great editing amazing shots i love everything about this video!, really liked how you ended it too
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  • yani 2 months ago
    Awesome work! If you don't mind me asking what kind of time intervals were using between shots?
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  • Alex 2 months ago
    amazing thing is you kept it really alive, upbeat like someone mentioned, especially from still images, uncanny
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  • Bryce Gurr plus 2 months ago
    Wow! That was awesome. I really liked the part when you followed the ferry from one side to the other. Then went to the other boat and zoomed out. It was all seemless. Nice work!
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  • Tay Trong 2 months ago
    Rob, I hope you're enjoying the food there!
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  • Steve Kim 2 months ago
    Very awesome. I've seen a lot of timelapses, but what makes yours stand out is how creative you were, especially with the editing and music.

    Cheers.
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  • Fabian Guerrero 2 months ago
    Excelente!
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  • improvisa2 2 months ago
    Muy Bueno desde argentina
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  • Tyler T Nguyen plus 2 months ago
    awesome!!! this is where I was born.
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  • Charles Colpain 2 months ago
    Tilt shift
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  • Charles Colpain 2 months ago
    Tilt shift
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  • Minh Huynh 2 months ago
    Amazing work!!!
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  • srikanth jandhyala 2 months ago
    i just got a interval timer and you have inspired me to do some really interesting things with time lapse videos
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  • Maarten Kal plus 2 months ago
    best timelapse ever seen!
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  • Hang Nguyen Luong 2 months ago
    Amazing, love it or not :)
    From a Saigonese.
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  • Mickey Zelansky 2 months ago
    completely GREAT.
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  • Rutger Geerling 2 months ago
    one of the best timelapse I've seen so far! fantastic work and loads of creative angles. I can only imagine the work you put into it. loved watching it countless of times!
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  • Tony Trần 2 months ago
    Amazing !
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  • Sin.M 2 months ago
    Awesome! Beautiful!
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  • Benni Meier plus 2 months ago
    awesome!
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  • Yofie Setiawan 2 months ago
    You haven't come to Jakarta Indonesia aren't you?
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  • exemon 2 months ago
    the part with the gas station, music stop, refuels and then keeps going
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  • Zeh Augusto 2 months ago
    Sensacional!
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  • Serene Yee 2 months ago
    Love it! Thanks for bringing back exciting memories of Saigon. Thinking back, I now wonder how I survived that daily in my five years there!
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  • Dr Alchemica 2 months ago
    Dr Alchemica seal of approval.
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  • scott vallee 2 months ago
    Well done...
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  • anhpa 2 months ago
    Wow! Amazing Saigon!
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  • Mike Kobal plus 2 months ago
    amazing clip, love it
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  • Lou Angeli plus 2 months ago
    Outstanding
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  • Anthony plus 2 months ago
    cool dude. I'm experimenting with HDR time-lapse at the moment. Check here...

    The main problem we're getting is the artefacts that come into play on moving parts of the frame (predominately people) when processing the images for HDR. This is probably due to the interval in time between each bracketed exposure in camera.

    Are you shooting single RAW frames then processing each frame at different exposures?
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  • Anthony plus 2 months ago
    here's the link!

    vimeo.com/33088981
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  • Harry Juselius plus 2 months ago
    That was great awesome idea wow......hj.
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  • Alan Travers 2 months ago
    I love it! Brilliant use of digital-panning and zooming!! Really captures the manic energy of HCMC!!
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  • thailon 2 months ago
    Great & briliant !
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  • The Foundry plus 2 months ago
    This was stunning, shared on 8hourday.com/vietnamese-traffic-timelapse
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  • Semih Akalin 2 months ago
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  • Thora 2 months ago
    That was not only fun to watch, but educational as well: A new traffic pattern! The music was perfect. Thanks.
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  • Brad Young 2 months ago
    Brilliant! Well done! Love the blends of same scene across day / night
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  • casanova rodrigo 2 months ago
    lazorra!!!
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  • oweng plus 2 months ago
    Utterly fantastic, was getting a little bored of all the astro timelapse stuff but this is inspiring, thank you.
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  • Rafael Baranda 2 months ago
    Awesome!
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  • myLapse plus 2 months ago
    muy original, un excelente trabajo, felicidades
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  • Efecreata Group 2 months ago
    Bravo !!!
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