Everest Timelapse

http://www.eliasaikaly.com Experience the beauty of Mt. Everest at night in time-lapse. While most climbers slept, I attempted to capture some of the magic that the Himalayan skies have to offer while climbing to the top of the world. Here's a bit of what I endured at the end to make this possible: http://www.eliasaikaly.com/2013/05/into-the-death-zone/ One of the most rewarding parts of the journey was being able to share it with thousands of students on www.epals.com/everest This time lapse video is comprised of thousands of photographs, processed and assembled on Mt. Everest. Shot on a Canon 5D Mark II -Canon 2.8 16-35mm -Canon 2.8 24-70mm -Canon 2.8 70-200mm (which was way to heavy to carry beyond 6400M) -TL Remote was purchased off eBay Edited in Final Cut Pro Processed in Adobe LightRoom Movies compiled in Quicktime Music: A Heartbeat away purchased on http://goo.gl/AJZcM I hope you enjoy it. If you do, please leave a comment and let me know what you think. My stock footage, professional and charitable work can be see on my website at www.eliasaikaly.com And on FB: https://www.facebook.com/elia.saikaly.adventurer

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Wait, what? A timelapse of Everest? Yup. In love with this. 

Description: 

"Experience the beauty of Mt. Everest at night in time-lapse. While most climbers slept, I attempted to capture some of the magic that the Himalayan skies have to offer while climbing to the top of the world. This time lapse video is comprised of thousands of photographs, processed and assembled on Mt. Everest."

 

A Supercell Caught inTexas by Mike Olbinski

Find more of my work here: http://www.mikeolbinski.com Also follow me on Instragram for storm photos and whatnot - http://instagram.com/mikeolbinski Still print of this storm can be found here if interested: http://gallery.mikeolbinski.com/stormchasing/h6015e87e#h6015e87e It took four years but I finally got it. A rotating supercell. And not just a rotating supercell, but one with insane structure and amazing movement. I've been visiting the Central Plains since 2010. Usually it's just for a day, or three, or two...but it took until the fourth attempt to actually find what I'd been looking for. And boy did we find it. No, there was no tornado. But that's not really what I was after. I'm from Arizona. We don't get structure like this. Clouds that rotate and look like alien spacecraft hanging over the Earth. We chased this storm from the wrong side (north) and it took us going through hail and torrential rains to burst through on the south side. And when we did...this monster cloud was hanging over Texas and rotating like something out of Close Encounters. The timelapse was shot on a Canon 5D Mark II with a Rokinon 14mm 2.8 lens. It's broken up into four parts. The first section ends because it started pouring on us. We should have been further south when we started filming but you never know how long these things will last, so I started the timelapse as soon as I could. One thing to note early on in the first part is the way the rain is coming down on the right and actually being sucked back into the rotation. Amazing. A few miles south is where part two picks up. And I didn't realize how fast it was moving south, so part three is just me panning the camera to the left. During that third part you can see dust along the cornfield being pulled into the storm as well...part of the strong inflow. The final part is when the storm had started dying out and we shot lightning as it passed over us. Between the third and fourth portions we drove through Booker, Texas where tornado sirens were going off...it was creepy as all heck. And intense. I hope you enjoy this. Once thing I've learned about timelapsing is that I always wish it would be longer or wouldn't end. I wish I had been south and been able to record this storm come at me for 45 minutes. But I love it the way it is. I wasn't ever certain I'd see structure like this even though it's been such a goal of mine. But we did it. And by we, I mean myself and my buddy Andy Hoeland, who knows his crap and got us into position so we could chase this storm. Without him along I don't know if I get this timelapse.

Arizona photographer Mike Olbinski got this amazing video of the formation of a gigantic rotating supercell near Booker, Texas on June 3.

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This is Africa: Video Travels in Uganda and Tanzania

In March 2013 I took a trip to Uganda and Tanzania with two of my siblings to visit my sister who was volunteering at the time for Jenga, a community development organisation in Mbale, Uganda. This is a glimpse of our time there.. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Shot/directed/cut by Benjamin Dowie Music written and produced by Oliver Dowie feat. vocals from the En-Kata Choir, Tanzania • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Shot on 5D Mk3 Cut & graded with Final Cut 7 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Thank you to Peter and the guys at KCM, Pastor Willy and family in Mbarara, Tash & the Pamoja crew, the amazing Maasai people, and Robby & co at Jenga. En-Kata Choir http://www.en-kata.com/ Lyrebird Studios (Oliver Dowie) https://soundcloud.com/lyrebird ▲ http://www.facebook.com/BeanpoleProductions http://beanpole.com.au/ ©2013 BEANPOLE PRODUCTIONS

Australian Benjamin Dowie has created this great video of his travels in Uganda and Tanzania in March of 2013. 

 

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Virtual Motion Sculptures of Street Fighter 2 Movements

Thanks for watching my animation! I did it in order to teach myself Cinema 4D and Vray in my spare time, the renders aren't perfect but the best I could get out of my machine. While I setup up most of the geometry using tracers, Xpresso and Thinking Particles, I had some help along the way from the following great resources... I edited the motion captures from this archive >>> https://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture and used Microsoft Kinect for some parts aswell I tweaked the character models from >>> http://thefree3dmodels.com/ Sound effects we're mostly sourced from >>> www.freesound.org And the music is obviously from Capcom's Street Fighter 2, play it here >>> https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/street-fighter-ii-collection/id459660048?mt=8 If you like this, then checkout the original & far superior Quayola and Memo 'Forms' >>> https://vimeo.com/37967381 Peace! Gif> http://tinyurl.com/afmwoss

From the video page: 

"I did it in order to teach myself Cinema 4D and Vray in my spare time, the renders aren't perfect but the best I could get out of my machine. While I setup up most of the geometry using tracers, Xpresso and Thinking Particles, I had some help along the way from the following great resources..."

 

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The Sugar Cube Mission

The Sugar Cube Mission is a personal project I did during the Commercial Production Techniques course at the Gnomon School of VFX. The basic idea is a miniature platoon that does household... operations. Special thanks to Cenk Cevdet Kilar for advising me to learn Houdini, Adad Fernando Morales (you know), Rou for the feedback and Joel for the kitchen and the Tecates. Credits: all aspects created by Georgios Papaioannou except main helicopter geometry by Evermotion Models. Software: Maya 2013, VRay 2.3, Houdini 12.1 & Nuke v7.04 Sound Design: decoystudios.tv & Georgios Papaioannou Music Track: Richard Wagner - The Rise of the Valkyries (1870) Georgios Papaioannou director/vfx generalist gpapaioa@frameworks.gr +30.6946.791.581 skype: giwrgos.papaioannou http://www.frameworks.gr

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Georgios Papaioannou took a cup of coffee and made it an occasion for a miniature cinematic adventure.

 

City Series: Seattle

The third in a series of city symphonies. First in the series, New York: vimeo.com/51875528. Second, San Francisco: vimeo.com/57508140. Next, Los Angeles, coming July 1st. Synopsis: Inspired by the avant-garde city symphony films of the early 20th century, such as Paul Strand's "Manhatta" and Dziga Vertov's "The Man With the Movie Camera," CITY SERIES: SEATTLE paints a masterful portrait of the beautiful city of Seattle, Washington. Utilizing experimental editing techniques, time-lapse, and beautiful cinematography, the film explores the poetic mode of documentary film to convey the experience of this iconic, Pacific Northwestern metropolis. "In the the 1920s the movies were still relatively young, and an evolving modernist aesthetic embraced all things new, sleek, fast, and urban. Not surprisingly, a common focus of the cinematic avant-garde during this era was on the power, and excitement of cities. In both Europe and the US, a small genre of films that became know as 'city symphonies' attempted to capture the spirit, uniqueness, and poetry of a city by assembling images of everyday life in that city. These early films and their offsprings often utilized what film historian Bill Nichols has termed the 'poetic mode' of documentary film production--an attempt to move away from the 'objective' reality of a given situation or people in order to grasp at an inner 'truth' that can only be conveyed by poetical manipulations of mood, tone, time, and space." -University of California Berkeley Media Resources Center Music: Alone in Kyoto by Air. Shot on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera in ProRes 422HQ 1080p with a Rokinon Cine Lens 14mm T3.1, 35mm T1.5, and a Contineo Cage and Switronix battery pack. Graded in DaVinci Resolve. Last shot graded in Lightroom and recorded in Raw 2.5K. Filmed in three days, all handheld, during NFFTY 2013 (www.nffty.org). milescrist.com 4 MINUTES | COLOR | 1.85:1 | DOLBY DIGITAL STEREO May 21, 2013 © 2013 Miles Crist. All Rights Reserved.

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Synopsis:
"Inspired by the avant-garde city symphony films of the early 20th century, such as Paul Strand's "Manhatta" and Dziga Vertov's "The Man With the Movie Camera," CITY SERIES: SEATTLE paints a masterful portrait of the beautiful city of Seattle, Washington. Utilizing experimental editing techniques, time-lapse, and beautiful cinematography, the film explores the poetic mode of documentary film to convey the experience of this iconic, Pacific Northwestern metropolis.

Get the Music: Alone in Kyoto by Air.

 

The Adjustable Cosmos

In the fifteenth century, three worthies come together to tackle the Emperor's disastrous horoscope. They lift themselves to space in their medieval vessel, braving the terrors and wonders of the of the Ptolemaic universe, to reach for the stars... Based on a short story by Adam Browne

I am just in love with this animated short that imagines an early space program.

From the video description:

"In the fifteenth century, three worthies come together to tackle the Emperor's disastrous horoscope. They lift themselves to space in their medieval vessel, braving the terrors and wonders of the of the Ptolemaic universe, to reach for the stars..."

Based on a short story by Adam Browne

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Timelapse: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park from sea to summit

I have photographed each of the 59 US National Parks, often with an ancient-looking large-format camera. The volcanoes of Hawaii are such a dynamic landscape that to tell their story, I felt inspired to interpret them through motion using time-lapse and DSLR video. Although I've been shooting clips for years, this is my first completed video. Here are highlights of this unique sea-to-summit project, filmed in 2011/2013, mostly in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: 1. One of the most mesmerizing spectacles of nature I've witnessed is lava flowing to the ocean as clouds of steam rise from the meeting of fire and water. I stood mere feet away from the 2000F lava. After everybody had left, I stayed to record the pulse of the flow over an entire night. 2. Since 2008, the Halemaʻumaʻu Crater at Kilauea Summit contains an active lava lake which at night illuminates a large gas plume. I captured the Milky Way appearing in a weather break above by setting up my camera in driving rain. 3. Besides filming Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, from Mauna Kea and Haleakala, I backpacked for a dozen miles on steep and sharp lava rocks to the 13,700 feet summit. In the morning, a water bottle was frozen after I camped to capture what is likely the first night-time and sunrise time-lapses from the top of the summit cliffs overlooking the immense Mokuaweoweo caldera. They bookend the video. Guides/trip reports/behind the scenes about those adventures: ocean http://www.terragalleria.com/blog/2013/04/25/photographing-the-lava-ocean-entry-in-hawaii summit http://www.terragalleria.com/blog/2013/05/17/hiking-mauna-loa-summit-via-observatory-trail Hawaii Volcanoes picture gallery: http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np.hawaii-volcanoes.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/terragalleria Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/terragalleria Google+: http://plus.google.com/u/0/115204805503581947511/ I am a widely published, full-time photographer, accepting assignments worldwide. Most of the film footage is available in 4K. Equipment: Canon 5D mk2 & 5D mk3 cameras, Canon 24/1.4, 24-105, 100-400, Nikkor 12-24. Post-production: Lightroom 4, Adobe CS5 (Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro), LRTimelapse 2, GBDeflicker. I am grateful to zero-project http://www.zero-project.gr for the CC-licensed (edited) track "Ride of the Dark Knight", and Steven Bumgardner https://vimeo.com/user2380620 for guidance and advice. Thank you for watching. I always appreciate comments and feedback (critiques welcome).

QT Luong a prolific National Parks photographer covers the lava hissing into the ocean at sea level to the peak of Mauna Loa at 13,700ft.  

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