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20. Flight
by Sam Javanrouh
5 months ago
19. MMVA 2011 - Part 1
by Sam Javanrouh
7 months ago
18. Storm Clouds
by Sam Javanrouh
8 months ago
17. MMVA 2010
by Sam Javanrouh
8 months ago
16. fog city
by Sam Javanrouh
1 year ago
15. Bridge Eaters
by Sam Javanrouh
1 year ago
14. Bridge Demolition
by Sam Javanrouh
1 year ago
13. Toronto
by Sam Javanrouh
1 year ago
12. Raptors and Rockets
by Sam Javanrouh
2 years ago
11. Toronto on Ice
by Sam Javanrouh
2 years ago
10. Toronto Lightning Storm
by Sam Javanrouh
2 years ago
9. MJ fans
by Sam Javanrouh
2 years ago
8. Moonwalkers
by Sam Javanrouh
2 years ago
7. Biking with 5D Mark II
by Sam Javanrouh
2 years ago
6. Workflow demo - introduction
by Sam Javanrouh
2 years ago
5. no swimming allowed
by Sam Javanrouh
3 years ago
4. Scramble
by Sam Javanrouh
3 years ago
3. Players
by Sam Javanrouh
3 years ago
2. Stars and Planes
by Sam Javanrouh
3 years ago
1. Cars and People
by Sam Javanrouh
4 years ago
347 frame shot on Canon 5D Mark II and Sigma 12-24.
15 seconds exposures at f8, at 17 seconds intervals.

UPDATE: Sound was captured separately at the time of shooting this, on a ZOOM H4n.

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  • Holly Hustler 2 years ago
    awesome
  • Dean Cox 2 years ago
    Cool T!
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  • Roger Mudd 2 years ago
    Great work Sam. Opinions on the Sigma 12-24 full frame? Obviously your results are great, but mine's soft at the corners on both a 10D (1.6x) and 1d MKI (1.3x). Lesson to be learned -- don't include any foliage around the edges of a frame or it turns into a garbled mess.
  • Sam Javanrouh plus 2 years ago
    Thanks. I actually like the lens very much. I've heard stories that there are good can bad copies of it on the market. Maybe I was lucky.
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  • James Ball 2 years ago
    As always your content and execution is excellent. I've been looking at your pictures and video's for some years now and you never fail to amaze me.
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  • niKubik 2 years ago
    crazy, because it seems to be special effects, but it's not ! (exept the sound)
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  • Faramarz Hashemi 2 years ago
    That was great! the flash rollover at ddoi.ca was another sweet way of looking at it.
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  • KJ plus 2 years ago
    I like it. How did you automate the exposures? Or was it done manually?
  • Sam Javanrouh plus 2 years ago
    I use PCLIX which is a cool intervelometer: pclix.com/pages/pclix_main.html
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  • Stickstickbangbang 2 years ago
    What a storm that was, great shots!
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  • Sergey Apuhtin 2 years ago
    that video is amazing! great weather, i like it!
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  • Sam McCready 2 years ago
    CooL!
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  • brian hunt pro 2 years ago
    Awesome, you must have some great still frames from the sequence too!
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  • Ro'Shine 2 years ago
    It's beautiful. Going to post on my blog.

    TOFLO.com
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  • Ro'Shine 2 years ago
    Can I get it in HD?
  • Sam Javanrouh plus 2 years ago
    Gave toflo.com HD access.
  • Ro'Shine 2 years ago
    Thank you. the feedback had been great
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  • Juan C.Dahik 2 years ago
    wow
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  • ingrid f 2 years ago
    spectacular.
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  • tommy norman 2 years ago
    that was cool. at 00:25 you can see the cn tower get struck.
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  • Sergey Pylypenko 2 years ago
    Hey! Look at the beauty of our city..., real p.o.a. What a great artist.
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  • Alicia Petralia 2 years ago
    That is awesome!
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  • Nathan Francis 2 years ago
    looks great
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  • Dan Valentine plus 2 years ago
    Great work. How do you decide what settings to use? Is it just a calculated guess?
  • Sam Javanrouh plus 2 years ago
    Done this a bunch of times until I came to the settings I like best. Thankfully our city gets struck by lightning enough times to give me room to experiment!
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  • Fr3DDy 2 years ago
    very nice
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  • Alibaba 2 years ago
    amazing shots.. very cool..
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  • Anthony Gardner 2 years ago
    pause this at 25 seconds!
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  • John 2 years ago
    this is amazing how do u do the fast forward trick
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  • Sugoi 2 years ago
    Well done Sam, truly awesome!!!

    Had to add it to my Skyscraper group :)
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  • Inofaith 2 years ago
    I like the reflection of the traffic in the middle glass building.
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  • .:ESC 2 years ago
    Epic!
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  • Manuel Benito de Valle plus 2 years ago
    Share your knowledge, man! We´re expecting here for some answers...
    Congratulations, by the way. It was amazing.
  • Sam Javanrouh plus 2 years ago
    What do you want to know?
  • Manuel Benito de Valle plus 2 years ago
    You´ve already pointed me to the right direction. I´m checking PClix site and understanding the technique...

    Thanx!
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  • D.J.G 2 years ago
    It looks so unreal, nice job! The lightening hits the tower at 00:08, 00:12, 00:25, and 00:32, btw. Who says lightening doesn't strike in the same place twice? Lol.
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  • Fabiano Waewell 2 years ago
    cool!
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  • Numanbek Q. 2 years ago
    Nice clip. Added to Canadian HD Channel.
    vimeo.com/CanadianHD
    Visit and subscribe!
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  • Basel Teebi 2 years ago
    the T dot!
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  • Cyclebetes 2 years ago
    Amazing!
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  • Kurt Rummel 2 years ago
    Awesome concept, great use of the time lapse with the real time audio.
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  • Jaden Dickey 2 years ago
    yeah dude, looks amazing
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  • Furkan 2 years ago
    that's from daily dose of imagery?
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  • Dean Cox 2 years ago
    The stuff of Gods!
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  • Samer Ziadeh 2 years ago
    That's from the rooftop of my building xD
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  • Luke Flegg D.o.P 2 years ago
    Totally brilliant. There's not many things I watch on Vimeo several times, but there's so many things to look at in this original and atmospheric animation.
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  • Adriana de Barros 2 years ago
    Featured today at Scene 360 magazine (Scene360.com) and Scene 360 Illusion (illusion.scene360.com)
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  • kaspars 2 years ago
    You had to make this longer! love watching lights switch on and of in buildings and street reflection on glass wall. mmm. :)
  • kaspars 2 years ago
    + this is one of best and most original things i've ever seen. it's so powerful.
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  • sjh00 2 years ago
    我没看到雨。
    I didn‘t see the rain.
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  • logan black 2 years ago
    Nice video
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  • Charles Lo Manto 2 years ago
    Really cool to watch.
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  • Spongeinside 2 years ago
    That's so cool :D
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  • David James plus 2 years ago
    Outstanding
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  • Adam Richardson 2 years ago
    Excellent vantage point of the storm! I put together a similar video, but just from my balcony and I wasn't thinking of creating a video from the stills - until after the fact. So, it's great to see someone had the foresight to shoot a proper time lapse of that amazing storm. Cool stuff.
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  • M F 2 years ago
    That was incredible!! I don't think I've ever seen as much lightening as we did that night! Just incredible.
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  • GABRIEL PLATA 2 years ago
    Nice video
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  • Luc van Vliet 2 years ago
    Wonderful & Thanks
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  • Scott Neth 2 years ago
    Beautiful work, GREAT job
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  • Christian Chaos 2 years ago
    Evil ]:)
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  • Nacho el Nacho 2 years ago
    Awesome mate
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  • WCD (j.botaitis) plus 2 years ago
    I was vacationing in my hometown Toronto for that night and the next. Amazing to watch thousands of people clear the streets from the Taste of the Danforth festival in mere seconds! Great shots!
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  • Claude Lyneis plus 2 years ago
    It is amazing. The city itself looks spectacular and the lightning is captured so well. It is interesting to see the new cameras lend themselves to a convergence between still photography and video.
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  • Ben Weeks plus 2 years ago
    Wow! So good!
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  • Richard Huntington 2 years ago
    Very cool!
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  • Nickolas Duarte plus 2 years ago
    This is ridiculous. It doesn't even seem real. Incredible stuff!
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  • Action Brothers 2 years ago
    very simple
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  • Jenn Cutter 2 years ago
    Brilliant idea+execution and great video!
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  • Ulina 2 years ago
    pretty cool
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  • UNKNOWNBIKE co plus 2 years ago
    hell nice
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  • Craig Maiden 2 years ago
    Brilliant clarity! I like it a lot.
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  • Rich Staley plus 2 years ago
    That was great. I would love to see the video in a slower frame rate so I could watch the progression of the lightning.
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  • Keith Rivers pro 2 years ago
    love this
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  • Brian Murray 2 years ago
    Well done. Beautifully framed too.
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  • Andy Garcia 2 years ago
    This is amazing! So Vibrant and Alive! High Five!
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  • Hans Perter 2 years ago
    It looks pretty cool but i don't like the sound you schould make some background music that would be awsome... but it is still cool
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  • sc 2 years ago
    Very nice.
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  • Jason Lea 2 years ago
    Nice production. CN tower hit 5 times there! I'd love to see some close ups of the tower being hit with the next storm.
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  • spoon lama 2 years ago
    nice
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  • René 2 years ago
    The lightning bolts striking the CN Tower are particularly impressive.

    Nice work Sam!
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  • pat merino 2 years ago
    nicely captured
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  • Bob Ketchum 2 years ago
    What a great study in time lapse.
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  • Marco S 2 years ago
    When i saw this on the news here in, Toronto, I was like damn if i only had a Canon 5D mk2 this would be a wicked chance to go out and shoot glad someone else took advantage of this. good work.
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  • Joe Dunkley 2 years ago
    V Nice!
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  • Nick Moore 2 years ago
    This is so dope.
    I wish I had this camera.
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  • harry mcallister 2 years ago
    WOW short but sweet
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  • scott robertson 2 years ago
    mother nature always has me in awe when she plays out a storm like that, well captured, thank you :d
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  • Kristijan Matas 2 years ago
    wow, really nice
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  • CFYE .com 2 years ago
    great work! on crackcircuittv.com (CCTV)
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  • William Doyle 2 years ago
    Very awesome.
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  • Vista 2 years ago
    very nice
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  • Shelby Wilson 2 years ago
    Unreal. Beautiful.
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  • Marla Mize 2 years ago
    Stunningly beautiful. Excellent work. Thank you for posting.
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  • Andie Steele-Smith plus 2 years ago
    Wow....!
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  • Rimthevim 2 years ago
    Just back from Canadialand (same day as you posted this !), witnessing storms in Hamilton and Toronto.Makes this an awesome document.Wonderful..thanks for posting.
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  • Re:Frame Collective 2 years ago
    Wow, amazing video! Thanks for posting
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  • Christian C 2 years ago
    Congrats on being Today's Big Thing!

    technology.todaysbigthing.com/2009/08/18
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  • Brian Nguyen 2 years ago
    Awesome.
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  • Hungry Eye plus 2 years ago
    Very nicely done. My favourite by far.
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  • Xacobo de Toro 2 years ago
    Nice!!
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