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106. Every Photo Shot For The Conan O'Brien Title Sequence
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Here is every shot taken for the Conan O'brien opening. See if you can find the shots that ended up in the final Title Sequence. hulu.com/watch/87412/the-tonight-show-with-conan-obrien-tue-aug-4-2009#s-p1-so-i0

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  • Robert Strickland 4 months ago
    Freaking BRILLIANT, bro. Truly SOLID work. Must've been hella hard work, but so satisfying to see it done.
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  • Ryan Somerville 4 months ago
    love seeing shots like this of cities, especially of my home town city :P

    love how it's edited, awesome awesome work!
    also it must have been awesome to just go out to the spots to take the photos.
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  • Matt McDonald plus 4 months ago
    very nice, nick! the final piece turned out great too. love it.
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  • Andy Wood 4 months ago
    Excellent work! That's so cool that you did the photography for the Conan Intro. What's the name of the song you used?
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  • Andrea Allen staff 4 months ago
    Sweet!
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  • WMC-AP 4 months ago
    Wonderful! If Tom Yorke sees this he might ask permission to make it the official music video :)

    Tell us about your setup, shoot details, cameras used, number of shots.

    I'm inspired to go do some night shooting again!
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  • Sunny Thaper plus 4 months ago
    Freaking badass!
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  • Chris 4 months ago
    I knew you rocked, but I didn't realize you rocked this hard.
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  • Philipp 7pc 4 months ago
    Like!Like!Like!
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  • Hunter Hadfield 4 months ago
    Just recently came across your work and it cant get much better. Nice job dude. Makes me want to get back to LA.
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  • Wayne Kenneth 4 months ago
    This sells LA more than anything I've ever seen. Impeccable.
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  • Ray Roman 4 months ago
    How long did this take to put together? Any possibility of doing a short tutorial on this? I'm wondering how you make the images look like the lights fading up on the buildings(around :33 - :36 seconds)? Was that done in post or is it the way you shot the images that when they're pieced together it creates that look?
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  • DIGITALKITCHEN plus 4 months ago
    Awesomeness.
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  • Bill Dwyer 4 months ago
    I think I just had a seizure.
    But in a good way.
    Really cool edit, goes great with the music.
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  • Ryan Schanno 3 months ago
    absolutely stunning. amazing visuals and expression of light and dark
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  • My Robot 3 months ago
    Thanks for the inspiration
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  • Fard Muhammad 3 months ago
    Coincidentally enough- this photo of me was taken while in line for the first episode of the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. ;-)

    Brilliant work. I should really learn how to do bracketing of photos... maybe a tutorial can assist me.

    By the way- you guys hiring?
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  • eddy alvarez 3 months ago
    Ray, it looks like he just grabbed all of his images give them either 1 or 2 frames each in length and sequenced them out...

    the fade up means he had his camera in bracketing mode..which (with a D700) captures 5 consecutive images with different exposures..probably +/- 2 stops..bracketing is used when making HDR images
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  • Mike B 3 months ago
    this is one of the most impressive comps I have seen in a long time, I love the timing of the lights to the music, you see and feel it!! great job
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  • panic embryo 3 months ago
    dude....!
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  • Tiago Bahia 3 months ago
    Hey man, this could be a nice idea for a tutorial. A time lapse tutorial. You don't have to do one, maybe just a walk through with this video. It could be a nice mix of tutorials: photography, after effects, final cut or whatever else you've used!

    By the way, good job.
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  • Vincent Vaquier 3 months ago
    Great as always. Please a tutorial
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  • Bill Heffley plus 3 months ago
    awesome shots!
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  • sjoerdwijn 3 months ago
    like the music, it matches with the photos
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  • chrispc 3 months ago
    very nice but the hulu link doesn't work for anyone outside the US, which sucks balls.
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  • Nick Chafin plus 2 months ago
    Nice energetic imagery and edit. Great job.
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  • Greg Pecknold plus 2 months ago
    Beautiful work!
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  • mono Escobar plus 2 months ago
    amazing, love it, thanks for showing me your eye and your thoughts.
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  • Collen 2 months ago
    This is beautiful Nick, thnx for the breakdown as well.
    It was a lot images to process.
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