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Video Inspiration: HDR time-laps movies
We've shown you great HDR pictures and tutorials how to create your own. But this is the first time that we show you a full HDR movie. Chad Richard recorded the sunrise from the Twin Peaks in San Francisco. He is just one of a dozen Photographer in the world, that deals with this effect.
This was an HDR time-lapse from Twin Peaks. It was a glorious moment because mother nature was behaving, unlike the last 2 early morning efforts where I was too fogged in. I was also shooting with my new Nikon D700 and a new 14-24mm ultrawide which is just a great combo since the D700 is a full frame camera!
Music is RJD2's remix of Astrud Gilberto's, Gentle Rain.
Two minute documentary about how to achieve this effect on ABC News.
And a tutorial written by the photographer.
Twin Peaks San Francisco Sunrise from Chad Richard on Vimeo.
OTHER HDR TIME LAPSE VIDEOS BY CHAD RICHARD
Cannon Beach Oregon from Chad Richard on Vimeo.
Utah & Arizona Compilation from Chad Richard on Vimeo.
Two minute documentary about how to achieve this effect on ABC News.
And a tutorial written by the photographer.
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This is so cool!
The "Utah & Arizona Compilation" is such a trip ----> BTW, the author of the video says that the song is from Massive Attack, but does anyone know which one exactly.
wow..that is inspiring!
Alexis, Thanks for the post! I am onored. FYI all - I posted my work flow here:
http://chadrichard.typepad.com/timelapse/2008/06/how-to-make-an.html
The Massive Attack song is "Tear Drop".
Alexis, thanx for the post it is an honor!
Martin - the Massive Attack song is called "Teardrop"
FYI All - I posted my HDR Time-lapse workflow here:
http://chadrichard.typepad.com/timelapse/2008/06/how-to-make-an.html
This HDR effect it's a great tool to balance big contrasts in your photo-work .... they tend to be a little surrealistic
check out http://freeartisticphotos.com
Too often I see people whinge about not being true HDR or making wacky looking images because of the absurd amount of contrast. It's hard to understad what HDR really is now.
I really enjoyed these videos. They are spectacular. The biggest problem I can see with making these though is objects moving and the sheer amount of data being procesed and stored. Each frame should be at least 3 images in RAW format. If I tried this I would run ou of memory in a few seconds of video.
Hey, great inspirational videos You got here! Thanks, man!!
Thanks for the name of the song Chad!
This does indeed take a ton of storage.
I am shooting with a D700 that will only let me bracket 1 EV max, so I need to shoot 7 images per final HDR image. So I am shooting anywhere from 7,000 - 12,000 images for a given shoot. I use a 32gb card to facilitate that.
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http://chadrichard.typepad.com/timelapse/
HDR like all techniques, is great when used well. The original point of HDR was to allow a photographer to capture a scene in a single image that would otherwise have to be composited in photoshop or require artificial lighting. The simplest example is when you are indoors and try to photograph something through a window. We all know what happens. Either the outdoors are exposed properly and the interior is completely black. Or the interior is properly exposed and the outdoors have gone completely white. HDR is the solution. It gets you a balanced exposure for all parts of the photo.
So now we must question was this technique used properly? In the time-lapse example, I have to say no. The joy of time-lapse photographty is to show the evolving light that occurs throughout a period of time. All the HDR does here is balance the exposure to a point where you cannot tell the light is changing. Other than the motion in the video, the enjoyable experience of seeing how much light changes in a given period of time is absent in these HDR time-lapses. Credit should go to Chad Richards for trying this, as it is no doubt, an interesting experiment. I just cannot see where doing this in HDR has added anything to the photos.
Better than HDTV ))
Very interesting, but how do you use a intervolometer? And how can you get one if you can for a 400D that is. Thank you.
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