The Mountain - Timelapse

smash

Sorry if it's already been posted. Very impressive...

http://vimeo.com/22439234

This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide.

Spain´s highest mountain @(3718m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world´s best observatories.

The goal was to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy along with one of the most amazing mountains I know El Teide. I have to say this was one of the most exhausting trips I have done. There was a lot of hiking at high altitudes and probably less than 10 hours of sleep in total for the whole week. Having been here 10-11 times before I had a long list of must-see locations I wanted to capture for this movie, but I am still not 100% used to carrying around so much gear required for time-lapse movies.

A large sandstorm hit the Sahara Desert on the 9th April (bit.ly/​g3tsDW) and at approx 3am in the night the sandstorm hit me, making it nearly impossible to see the sky with my own eyes.

Interestingly enough my camera was set for a 5 hour sequence of the milky way during this time and I was sure my whole scene was ruined. To my surprise, my camera had managed to capture the sandstorm which was backlit by Grand Canary Island making it look like golden clouds. The Milky Way was shining through the clouds, making the stars sparkle in an interesting way. So if you ever wondered how the Milky Way would look through a Sahara sandstorm, look at 00:32.

magicbastarder

the colours are so garish it's painful.

smash

Go make a better one yourself then showing the level of detail he's captured.

DaireQuinlan

steve06 wrote: »

Go make a better one yourself then showing the level of detail he's captured.

That's a pretty stupid response.

steve06: Gigli is a brilliant movie.

me: It left a lot to be desired, Also, Ben Affleck really really can't act.

steve06 (stroppily): Go make a movie yourself then portraying the same moving depth of character development and feeling as in Gigli. BTW, I love Ben Affleck.

me:

magicbastarder

steve06 wrote: »

Go make a better one yourself then showing the level of detail he's captured.

i'm sorry; i'll refrain from critique in future until i am able to replicate and beat what i'm critiquing.

smash

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

That's a pretty stupid response.

Hardly a stupid response given the time and effort that was put into it, and also considering photography is very subjective. To dismiss all of that and say "the colours are so garish it's painful." is a silly response.

magicbastarder

steve06 wrote: »

Hardly a stupid response given the time and effort that was put into it

i couldn't care less if he's a paraplegic and spent 20 hours climbing the mountain and his granny's pension getting the shots - the colours are completely overblown and ruin it for me.
and it's precisely because photography is subjective that i'm able to say that.

he gets judged on the output, not the input. end of story.

DaireQuinlan

steve06 wrote: »

Hardly a stupid response given the time and effort that was put into it, and also considering photography is very subjective. To dismiss all of that and say "the colours are so garish it's painful." is a silly response.

It's a stupid response because, as MB suggests above, you're maintaining that in order to critique something you have to make something equivalent. Hence my comment about Gigli. A lot of time and effort was put into that, along with a whopping 54 million dollars, and it's a steaming turkey. An unwatchable pile of crap. Now, see how I can say that despite not having almost 60 million dollars handy ?

smash

Forget it lads, thread is obviously going nowhere. :rolleyes:

PCPhoto

Steve ... what are you trying to do ... push your opinion/view of the video on others ?

its a video clip - one person commented their opinion on the clip - they didn't enjoy it and they gave a reason why...its not for you to judge their opinion, others may like the video (like yourself).

there's no need to attack the poster because they have a different opinion to your own - just accept it.

DougL

I'll try and comment on the video rather than comment on the comments :rolleyes:

I think the colours are badly over-saturated in many parts, and there is a softness to some of the sequences that suggests over-cropping or lack of focus. However, I still think it's beautiful. It's a shame the photographer felt the need to sexy it up. He really didn't need to.

On a related note, I'm really tempted to give time-lapses with a dolly a try. They really give a sense of depth to a scene even though they're actually moving very little. It just goes to show how good our eyes are at using a little bit of parallax to sense depth.