The biggest problem about shooting time lapses is that whenever you think you've had enough frames you are about 50% correct. I wish I had stayed and snapped for a bit longer but as on every Friday evening London Bridge fills up with lunatics, drunks and dodgy types who discuss robbing you in their foreign language expecting that you don't understand them.

For this video I used still image sequences shot on Canon 5D Mark II.
I used Canon 75-300 f/4.0-5.6 lens which I certainly don't recommend but I my case it did the job. My friend Pawel lent me his fancy programmable remote to execute continuous shutter without vibrations but since then I acquired my simple shutter release remote and I love it. I have a 16 GB CompactFlash card. It's a SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s - slower cards might lag.

The wonderful sounds were created by Cliff Martinez.

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  • landon shipman 2 months ago
    love it!
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  • SteveR plus 1 month ago
    Both sick and rad.
  • Make Some Tea plus 1 month ago
    Thanks!
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  • King Learie 1 month ago
    The time lapse appearance of water and fussy boats reminds me of Thunderbird model puppetry.
    At the beginning of Stingray, a voiceover says "Anything can happen in the next half hour!"
    thats a very slow shutter speed!

    I'll get me crown....
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  • John Novotny 1 month ago
    I love it! What were your settings? I assume you applied the tiltshift effect in editing.
  • Make Some Tea plus 1 month ago
    Thanks John. And by settings you mean camera or post?
  • John Novotny 1 month ago
    Both, if you are willing to divulge your secrets.
  • Make Some Tea plus 1 month ago
    No problem. Always happy to share. I used a very cheap zoom lens: 75-300 f/4.0-5.6 so had to work hard on keeping the aperture right. I tried getting as much light info as possible. Everything sharp. Everything clean.
    And in post I used After Effects. I created a blur mask on top and bottom of my stage, worked the light to get some more contrast using Curves, increased saturation and presto.
    I always admire works of Alta Media Productions vimeo.com/user1158336
    They mastered the art of smallgantics.
  • John Novotny 1 month ago
    Thanks, what where your ISO and exposure time? I just saw an Alta Media video, truly amazing.
  • Make Some Tea plus 1 month ago
    I tried not going over iso 800 and the shutter was at 1/30 pretty much most of the time.
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  • Great Work. Very Imaginative. I guess I'll go get myself a shutter release :)
  • Make Some Tea plus 1 month ago
    Thank you very much for you comment, Carlos. People like you make me wanna continue doing what I do.
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