thanks Dan, glad you love it :)

That first shot and subsequent shots...I am not skilled so please forgive me ...the cam moves, tracks across the horizon with the time lapse - I love that - have no idea how to do it - so cool to me...I loved the whole thing and will say it again...WOOT awesome!

the first scene is a 45 degree horizontal pan done with a motorised mount Dan. It was too windy to use it for the rest of the shots so the others are done in post.

thanks again Dan :)

...I did though :(

Maybe just a tiny hint of moiré noticeable in the sky during a few of the scenes?

glad you liked it :)

the first scene is a 45 degree horizontal pan done with a motorised mount, the rest was done in post as it was too windy!

do you like it Trond?

I do like it! And I've ordered myself a Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod (with a cheap kit pan head), and was wondering what I'd need more.... ;-)

:)

I got mine from ebay. It was a Nexstar Motorised Telescope and mount. I binned the scope and modified the mount - all for around 60 GBP.

glad you like it Maria :)

this area is very exposed and mainly flat, so even the slightest of breezes can build up unexpectedly and produce a little blast. I shot this over two days, with day one having three panning scenes - unfortunately, only one of them was usable out of approx 3,500 photos. Even the ones I shot on a sturdy tripod had some jitter, which I later corrected in AE.

I don't really like doing pans/zooms in post, but it seems to work with this one ;-)

don't know about professional, but I do appreciate your compliment Claudia :)

...it was a challenge ;-)

thanks 3to1 :)

gracias :)

and thank you Monso!

thanks Yanni :)

...only the last four scenes - I had to cut two scenes because of the wind :(

cheers Brian :)

hahaha -if only ;-p

thanks Terje :)

I usually use a 5 litre water carrier, only I forgot to bring it with me! And when I know its going to be breezy, I use a couple of bungee cords and some tent pegs - if only I remembered eh ;-)

thanks Jon :)

go for it!!!! I've been missing your shots - specially joshua tree ;-)

cheers bud :)

:))

thanks Frederic :)

thanks doctor :D

thanks Chris, glad you like my editing :)

hey Frenk!!!

been missing your input here on vimeo - would be good to see more from you my friend ;-)

Yes, 01.02 is HDR - I went for the arty look :)

thanks Frenk :)

thanks Daniel!

thank you Joan :)

about time you did a painting dude ;-)

thanks Anthony :)

yes (unfortunately) in post - too blowy for the real thing at the time!

I will try something like this again when I get the chance, only this time it will be the real deal :)

I try to keep the colour as I saw it - well, at least as realistic as I can make it ;-)

thanks Rick, and how are the ships doing - I ain't seen anything from you for a while ?

coming from you Keith, that means a lot - cheers bud :)

thanks Jan :)

glad you think so John, be even better if you gave it a 'Like' mate ;-)

I try to keep the HDR stuff to a semi surreal feeling - too much is well, too much! Not enough misses the point. I'm still learning mate ;-)

...and of course I "Like" it...... ooops forgot!.

Agree with you on the HDR aspect, it can be overwhelming, if taken too far. I think the important thing is to keep some level of reality by keeping what should be black, well black, not blue or red. I think you have struck the perfect balance in this piece. Well done again... we are all learning but you can"t learn good taste and you certainly have that.

:)

aww shucks, I'm taken aback - well I will try my best John - cheers mate ;-)

Just kidding mate! I will try to show what I see in all my vids, but as you know that's not all that easy! This is why I am still learning John - someday we'll get there, eh :)

I think than we we could know it's HDR... it's already too much ;) in my opinion...
very nice shots.

ole & thank you Trompico :)

thanks Allen, HDR can bring out the depth and give that 3D feel. Hopefully, more stuff will be on the way soon - depending upon the British weather ;-)

HDR...

...maybe in another video ;-)

thanks Matt :)

thanks Dennis, glad you like it :)

that's probably the effects of the soundtrack, it has an eerie, almost sinister feel to it...

thanks Even Q :)

thanks Paul, I tried to keep most of the colours as natural as possible and still maintain a natural vibrance ;-)

thanks Mark, the sun was playing hide and seek. It's not easy trying to photograph consistently in those ever changing light conditions manually, but I think I pulled it off ;-)

hi Patrick,

the modified mount I use is a programmable telescope mount. It's suppose to be used for tracking stars and planets so the travel can be extremely slow. This is where it becomes an advantage in time lapse. The one I use has 9 speeds, with 9 being the fastest and 1 the slowest. In the first scene I had the rate set to 3 which is around 1 degree a minute (give or take).

thanks for checking this video out :)

thanks Pierre,

for the ever changing light conditions I shoot in manual mode to attempt consistency between shots, and hopefully reduce flicker. Before I commit to a time lapse scene, I usually take a few varied sample shots and adjust my camera settings accordingly. All of the shots in this video are at ISO200, f22 and a shutter speed between 1/30th to 1/15th of a second. For the church windows, I went as low as 1/3rd of a second with an ND8 filter for the normal exposure bracketing ;-)

thanks Luis,

I use a glass polarising UV filter and most of the colour originates from the colour profile I select within the camera. Usually I use the vivid colour profile, but for the HDR I often select 'more vivid' and tweek the settings a little to add an extra boost. After that, well it depends upon how saturated an image looks, then I just tweek the colour curves a little.

thanks Paul :)

thanks, glad you found it enjoyable :)

thanks Michael :)

compression issues are a two way street really, and it wouldn't be fair to blame it all on the vimeo encoding. It is frustrating though, I shoot raw and jpeg format images and then process them accordingly - often smoothing out discrepancies with a little Gaussian blur. Most of the time I edit at a high res, usually at the images original frame size and then crop or reduce the image to suit either format - minimising the risk of compression fatigue...

but if a video has a minor amount of noise or artifacts, then the vimeo encoder will only amplify them more. This is the frustrating part - something we have to live with I'm affraid...

that's my fave too ;-)

thanks Keith, hopefully I will get to do more - Essex is full of old 14th to 16th century churches ;-)

grazie Massimiliano :)

thanks Martin :)

I took a few test shots and adjusted a few settings in-camera to gain the depth of these shots. Then it was an easy task of a little cc to gain the most from them. The last four main scenes are HDR, so depth comes naturally from those scenes :)

thanks Wolfgang :)

thanks for watching...!

hey bud, have you changed your name?

The timer intervals vary between the shots, however they range from 3 second intervals for the straight time lapse scenes, and 5 seconds for the HDR sequences.

thanks Hasan :)