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Alaska, Peru, Hawaii, Mammoth, CA and the plains of Texas.


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5 - The Star Filled Dark Skies of Namibia

It's not easy to come up with something new when you visit the same place every year for more than a decade. Over the years Marsel has created the most extensive and most popular night photography portfolio of Namibia on this planet, and two years ago he decided it was time to take it to the next level. The idea was to create a night photography timelapse video featuring his most popular subjects in this amazing country: the fairytale-like quivertrees and the eery, dead camelthorn trees in Deadvlei - something that had never been done before. But instead of going for static scenes, Marsel decided to add movement to the scenes by using a dolly system. All scenes were shot during the night with Nikon D3, D3s and D4 cameras. We used small headlights for selectively lighting trees and rocks, and we sometimes used the moon. The brighter the scene, the more moon there was at the time. For the arch scene we timed our shoot exactly with moonset, which involved quite a bit of calculating and planning. But the hardest one of all was probably the mist scene in Deadvlei. Mist in Deadvlei only occurs around five times a year, so we had to keep a close eye on the weather predictions and many attempts were unsuccessful. When we finally got it right, the results far exceeded our expectations and show Deadvlei as no one has ever seen it before. Each second of video consists of 30 photographs. In total, Marsel shot more than 16,000 images over a period of two years for this project. The video won First Prize in the 2012 Travel Photographer Of The Year Awards. Marsel & Daniella Credits: Director: Marsel van Oosten Editor: Daniella Sibbing Composer: Simon Wilkinson Produced by: Squiver Equipment used: Cameras: Nikon D3, D3s and D4 Lenses: Nikon 14-24/2.8 and 24-70/2.8 Tripods: Gitzo Dolly: Stage Zero, Dynamic Perception Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Squiver Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marselvanoostenphotography

Getting to a place with clear, dark skies can pay off with some of the richest, most nuanced views of the starfields. Namibia, apparently, is one of those places.

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3 - SEED - Stop-motion Film

*** WINNER Best Animated Short Slamdance 2010 *** An egg and an apple build competing broadcast towers that vie for the attention of a transistor radio. With its complex characterization and narrative of animal evolution, competition and reproduction, SEED is a beautiful and sinister stop-motion story about the struggle to survive. Directed & Animated by Ben Richardson & Daniel Bird Produced by Josh Hetzler Story by Daniel Bird Cinematography by Ben Richardson www.seed-movie.com www.benrichardson.com twitter.com/benrichardson www.danielbird.net Check out Ben's Sundance 2012 feature debut as cinematographer at www.beastsofthesouthernwild.com

SEED. An amazing stop-motion short by Ben Richardson & Daniel Bird.


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4 - Tornados in Timelapse

Chapter 19 from the Storm Lapse DVD with commentary: June 17, 2010 Southern Minnesota tornadoes. Time lapse of several tornadoes in southern Minnesota, including the mile wide Conger EF4. Music is courtesy Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com

Amateur storm chaser and videographer Skip Talbot explains:

The video was shot at 30 fps, and then sped up four times. When it’s sped up, four frames are blended into one. This 4x video was sped up another four times, the frames blended again. The result is very smooth. The trick is starting with video that’s been shot with exposure times close to the length of time between frames. I get this automatically using a camcorder. A still time-lapse with large time gaps between frames would require filters to extend exposure time and eliminate stutter

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Taiwan

Taiwan

Israel

Israel

Russia

Russia

Turkey

Turkey

Russia

Russia

Iran

Iran

Holland

Holland

People are amazing. Look at these amazing photos from all over that people are putting up. And once the SKYE app has ways to STAR and Comment on photos, I am gonna tell them all how amazing they are. The guy getting out of the ice water, for example, is in the Russian military and has put up some great, personable and fun photos... I want to tell him I think he is great. 

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Some gorgeous snow photos, plus a great one from the coast of Portugal. And I believe this Asmara is the very first photo I personally have ever seen from Eritrea.


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5 - A Day in India

This short film compiles three weeks of filming, traveling and eating in India into "one day". Created by: www.theperennialplate.com In Partnership with Intrepid Travel: www.intrepidtravel.com/food/ Filmed & edited by: Daniel Klein ( twitter.com/perennialplate/ ) Mirra Fine ( twitter.com/kaleandcola/) Music by: Cornershop: http://store.cornershop.com/ The Guadaloop: http://rawtapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-guadaloop-in-desired-in-the-3-worlds aaronmaxwell: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-aaronmaxwell-sunsets After Effects by: http://www.squawkproductions.com/ Filmed on 5d Mark iii w Canon 24-70, 70-200 2.8 L

Such beauty. And such importance — the observant eye. Good cameras help too.

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2 - Bird Ballet

We were shooting for a commercial with my D.O.P, waiting for an helicopter flying into the sunset, when thousands and thousands of birds came and made this incredible dance in the sky. It was amazing, we just forgot our job and started this little piece of poetry... Enjoy ! Thanks to the birds... (I'm not sure but I think it's starlings ) Please watch it in HD. Made by: Neels CASTILLON DOP: Mathias Touzeris Music: Hand-made - Alt J Location: Marseille, France

Waiting to catch a helicopter against a bright sunset,  commercial filmmaker Neels Castillon and his DP Mathias Touzeris caught this achingly beautiful footage of starling murmation and set it to Hand-Made by Alt-J.



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Badung, Indonesia

Badung, Indonesia

Islamabad

Islamabad

Doha, Qatar

Doha, Qatar

Beijing, PRC

Beijing, PRC

Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

Wanted to feature some of the great stuff that people are putting up all around the world on the SKYE Weather+Photo app.


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