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10. Toronto Lightning Storm

by Sam Javanrouh

3 months ago

9. MJ fans

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5 months ago

8. Moonwalkers

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5 months ago

7. Biking with 5D Mark II

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6 months ago

6. Workflow demo - introduction

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5. no swimming allowed

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4. Scramble

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3. Players

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1 year ago

2. Stars and Planes

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1. Cars and People

by Sam Javanrouh

2 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 3 months ago

awesome
Dean Cox 3 months ago

Cool T!
Roger Mudd 3 months 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 3 months 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.
James Ball 3 months 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.
niKubik 3 months ago

crazy, because it seems to be special effects, but it's not ! (exept the sound)
Faramarz Hashemi 3 months ago

That was great! the flash rollover at ddoi.ca was another sweet way of looking at it.
KJ 3 months ago

I like it. How did you automate the exposures? Or was it done manually?
Sam Javanrouh 3 months ago

I use PCLIX which is a cool intervelometer: pclix.com/pages/pclix_main.html
Stickstickbangbang 3 months ago

What a storm that was, great shots!
the jkss 3 months ago

that video is amazing! great weather, i like it!
Sam McCready 3 months ago

CooL!
brian hunt 3 months ago

Awesome, you must have some great still frames from the sequence too!
Ro'Shine 3 months ago

It's beautiful. Going to post on my blog.

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Ro'Shine 3 months ago

Can I get it in HD?
Sam Javanrouh 3 months ago

Gave toflo.com HD access.
Ro'Shine 3 months ago

Thank you. the feedback had been great
Juan C.Dahik 3 months ago

wow
ingrid f 3 months ago

spectacular.
Tommy Norman 3 months ago

that was cool. at 00:25 you can see the cn tower get struck.
wanderer 3 months ago

Hey! Look at the beauty of our city..., real p.o.a. What a great artist.
Alicia Petralia 3 months ago

That is awesome!
Nathan Francis 3 months ago

looks great
Dan Valentine 3 months ago

Great work. How do you decide what settings to use? Is it just a calculated guess?
Sam Javanrouh 3 months 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!
Fr3DDy 3 months ago

very nice
Ali Samieivafa 3 months ago

amazing shots.. very cool..
Anthony Gardner 3 months ago

pause this at 25 seconds!
John 3 months ago

this is amazing how do u do the fast forward trick
Sugoi 3 months ago

Well done Sam, truly awesome!!!

Had to add it to my Skyscraper group :)
Inofaith 3 months ago

I like the reflection of the traffic in the middle glass building.
.:ESC 3 months ago

Epic!
Manuel Benito de Valle 3 months ago

Share your knowledge, man! We´re expecting here for some answers...
Congratulations, by the way. It was amazing.
Sam Javanrouh 3 months ago

What do you want to know?
Manuel Benito de Valle 3 months ago

You´ve already pointed me to the right direction. I´m checking PClix site and understanding the technique...

Thanx!
Dj Granger 3 months 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.
Fabiano Waewell 3 months ago

cool!
Numanbek Qardash 3 months ago

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Basel Teebi 3 months ago

the T dot!
Cyclebetes 3 months ago

Amazing!
KvR 3 months ago

Awesome concept, great use of the time lapse with the real time audio.
Jaden Dickey 3 months ago

yeah dude, looks amazing
Furkan 3 months ago

that's from daily dose of imagery?
Dean Cox 3 months ago

The stuff of Gods!
Samer Ziadeh 3 months ago

That's from the rooftop of my building xD
Luke Flegg D.o.P 3 months 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.
Adriana de Barros 3 months ago

Featured today at Scene 360 magazine (Scene360.com) and Scene 360 Illusion (illusion.scene360.com)
kaspars 3 months ago

You had to make this longer! love watching lights switch on and of in buildings and street reflection on glass wall. mmm. :)
kaspars 3 months ago

+ this is one of best and most original things i've ever seen. it's so powerful.
sjh00 3 months ago

我没看到雨。
I didn‘t see the rain.
logan black 3 months ago

Nice video
Charles Lo Manto 3 months ago

Really cool to watch.
Spongeinside 3 months ago

That's so cool :D
David James 3 months ago

Outstanding
Upsidedownjim 3 months 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.
M F 3 months ago

That was incredible!! I don't think I've ever seen as much lightening as we did that night! Just incredible.
GABRIEL CAMARENA PLATA 3 months ago

Nice video
Luc van Vliet 3 months ago

Wonderful & Thanks
Scott Neth 3 months ago

Beautiful work, GREAT job
Christian Chaos 3 months ago

Evil ]:)
Nacho el Nacho 3 months ago

Awesome mate
WCD (j.botaitis) 3 months 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!
Claude Lyneis 3 months 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.
Ben Weeks 3 months ago

Wow! So good!
Richard Huntington 3 months ago

Very cool!
Nickolas Duarte 3 months ago

This is ridiculous. It doesn't even seem real. Incredible stuff!
Nick Piotrovski 3 months ago

very simple
Jenn Cutter 3 months ago

Brilliant idea+execution and great video!
Ulina 3 months ago

pretty cool
narkyoung kim 3 months ago

hell nice
Craig Maiden 3 months ago

Brilliant clarity! I like it a lot.
Rich Staley 3 months 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.
Keith Rivers 3 months ago

love this
Brian Murray 3 months ago

Well done. Beautifully framed too.
Andy Garcia 3 months ago

This is amazing! So Vibrant and Alive! High Five!
Hans Perter 3 months 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
CS 3 months ago

Very nice.
Jason Lea 3 months 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.
spoon lama 3 months ago

nice
René 3 months ago

The lightning bolts striking the CN Tower are particularly impressive.

Nice work Sam!
Anne Steele 3 months ago

That was fantastic! The pictures by itself are amazing...but the sound just adds to the effects.
pat merino 3 months ago

nicely captured
Bob Ketchum 3 months ago

What a great study in time lapse.
Marco S 3 months 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.
Joe Dunkley 3 months ago

V Nice!
Nick Moore 3 months ago

This is so dope.
I wish I had this camera.
harry mcallister 3 months ago

WOW short but sweet
scott robertson 3 months ago

mother nature always has me in awe when she plays out a storm like that, well captured, thank you :d
Kristijan Matas 3 months ago

wow, really nice
CFYE .com 3 months ago

great work! on crackcircuittv.com (CCTV)
William Doyle 3 months ago

Very awesome.
Louis 3 months ago

very nice
Shelby Wilson 3 months ago

Unreal. Beautiful.
Marla Mize 3 months ago

Stunningly beautiful. Excellent work. Thank you for posting.
Andrew Andie Steele-Smith 3 months ago

Wow....!
Rimthevim 3 months 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.
Re:Frame Collective 3 months ago

Wow, amazing video! Thanks for posting
Christian C 3 months ago

Congrats on being Today's Big Thing!

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Brian Jiro Nguyen–Fujiwara 3 months ago

Awesome.
Hungry Eye 3 months ago

Very nicely done. My favourite by far.