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Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon.

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Shooting 1 second exposures every 2 seconds
A total of 2683 images in this video, played back at 12fps.
Shot on 2 consecutive nights. First night was the panning tripod. While we were shooting, a guy called me back about an ad on craigslist for his Peleng 8mm fisheye. We went and picked it up at midnight and brought it along the 2nd night, when we did all the still shots.

A part of this was featured on KATU Ch. 2 Portland on 05/07/08, At least thats what all my coworkers told me the next day because I missed it.
Update: They didn't run the video, just a picture: vimeo.com/1013228
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  • Lucasberg 3 months ago
    Pretty awesome. I have a carnival coming for Memorial day I got to try this.
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  • Brown 3 months ago
    excellent, I especailly like the ride at 02:30
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  • Blake Whitman 3 months ago
    The slow shutter on this is amazing. That ride on the left looks totally insane btw.
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  • Jasper 3 months ago
    That is ace, great idea :D loved it
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  • Brian Boudreau 3 months ago
    Wow that is kick ass. I was thinking of something like this but our carnival isnt until August.
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  • Peter Bunzl 3 months ago
    brilliant!
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  • MFO 3 months ago
    Hey, cool. You know this:
    vimeo.com/671065
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  • Knowles Video, Robert Knowles 3 months ago
    Simply awesome!!
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  • Debbie.B 3 months ago
    Idd briljant. Wat een kunstwerk! Cool
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  • Adam C. 3 months ago
    totally cool. nice job!!
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  • Jon Lawrence 3 months ago
    How did you get the pan so smooth? What was your real fps/m with the SLR?
  • Andrew Curtis 3 months ago
    I was shooting 1 second exposures every 2 seconds. Check my profile for some info on the panning.
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  • dalas verdugo 3 months ago
    I saw this from afar. Looked like a good scene.
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  • Julien Simery 3 months ago
    How many pictures did you take? It's awesome!
  • Andrew Curtis 3 months ago
    I took 3020 images over the two days and used 2683 of them in the video.
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  • Hoop-CA, USA 3 months ago
    Yes, Andrew definitely has this down-if you haven't yet check out his vid of the draw bridge.

    This question is for anyone---this type of work requires mega storage space (amongst other things I realize), right?
  • Andrew Curtis 3 months ago
    The original images take up about 3.5gb (I was shooting fine jpg at 1936x1296 resolution). The uncompressed video is about 1gb.
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  • Patrick Satterfield 3 months ago
    Excellent! Great tune, too.
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  • Ted A.K.A. Tedley 3 months ago
    That was very cool!
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  • uncleboatshoes 3 months ago
    this is amazing, but sorta the least cinco de mayo musical choice possible.
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  • Bryan Thomas 3 months ago
    It looks like that Sprint commercial... Nice work!
  • Andrew Curtis 3 months ago
    Which commercial? I'm curious now!
  • Jet Kaiser 3 months ago
    The stopmotion light rays commercials (there's more than one.
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  • Luke Ross 3 months ago
    I missed it this year.. Thanks for the video, shot really well.
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  • Jet Kaiser 3 months ago
    Superb! We hope you post your techniques.
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  • Alex Itin 3 months ago
    That swirling thing at 2:25 is amazing
    almost think a longer exposure would be fun for some of this, but I'm quibbling
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  • ljdp 3 months ago
    Aha, awesome. I wonder what the G Force on that ferris wheel will be XD
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  • EIAFilms 3 months ago
    what a great deal of colors and lights.
    really enjoyed it.
    thanks for that !
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  • jmp478 3 months ago
    Great choice of music!
    What's the name of the song you used, btw?
  • Andrew Curtis 3 months ago
    The song is called "Blackpool Roll"
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  • JigsawJames 3 months ago
    Mr Scruff would be proud
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  • sirnube negra 3 months ago
    genius! what cameras did you use?
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  • Jorgi 3 months ago
    very cool.
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  • tenentenogueira 3 months ago
    this is Unfreakingbeleivable !
    Loved it !
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  • Daniel Hidalgo 2 months ago
    That was really cool man!

    Peace and Blessings,
    Danny
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  • Tanya McEwen 2 months ago
    Simply amazing! Out of sheer curiousity I would love to pick your brain for more technical aspects of how you managed to achieve such beautiful and artistic foootage.
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  • Mayra Cisneros 2 months ago
    SHINNY!!!!!

    woooo

    I liked it! it got me in a good mood.

    I would have put an object in the whole movie just because...

    =)
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  • Ozone Man 2 months ago
    It was so colorful, love the vid! :)
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  • Severnaya 2 months ago
    Panning time-lapse shots!..... I just watched Philip Bloom's "alone in tokyo" which featured them, and now this great video. I can't wait to try some of my own!
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  • Todd Burleson 2 months ago
    AWESOME!!

    TB
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  • John Georgiou 2 months ago
    Great job man! Looks like a wonderful carnival!
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  • rickO 2 months ago
    Awesome!
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  • DjScream3 2 months ago
    Nice work, I like
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  • Mark Rigler 2 months ago
    cool
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  • Suzi Q. 2 months ago
    Amazing! cool stuff. Something i would love try one day.
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  • Rico Tan 2 months ago
    What an awesome video!... great job!
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  • BobbyG 2 months ago
    i'm blown away
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  • Speldosa 2 months ago
    Truly a masterpiece. Half of the credits goes to Mr. Scruff for the amazing soundtrack!
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  • cj 2 months ago
    incredible!
    really wonderful stuff - love the choice of music
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  • cowstace 2 months ago
    well done!
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  • Domineke 2 months ago
    wow
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  • chriskalani 2 months ago
    Gosh, so good.
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  • Marcus M 2 months ago
    very nice dimension this brought me inside. good one*
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  • timelapseforum 2 months ago
    Did you need permission for this ahead of time? Or did you just go in and start shooting?

    Its amazing to think that people voluntarily go on some of these rides!!! lol.

  • Andrew Curtis 2 months ago
    They checked my backpack on the way in and looked at us funny, other than that we just went, set up the tripod and starting taking pictures.
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  • Jason Chen 2 months ago
    Look at all the colors! I love it. Good choice of music, too.
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  • Andrew 2 months ago
    reli edited well
    whats the music?
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  • Olix 2 months ago
    Wow!! Thanks for great idea.
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  • Alan Duff 2 months ago
    wow this effect is so cool. imagine how sick the people would get if the rides really went that fast lol.
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  • Bav Lee 1 month ago
    Amazing!!!!!
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  • Connor McNeely-Short 1 month ago
    what kind of camera did you use?
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  • Drummond Buckley 1 month ago
    my fave is the rubber duckies
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  • Byron 15 days ago
    truly amazing
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  • Mark Harmer 6 days ago
    Fab Fab Fab LOVE IT!
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