Timescapes and Timefest
Tom Lowe, just put up some of his footage on Vimeo of the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. The footage was shot with the RED Epic and these clips are part of Tom’s upcoming film, "Timescapes." The footage is beautiful, and I’ve got to admit to becoming slightly addicted to the dubstep artist’s work (SKRILLEX is the artist btw) I was impressed to see Tom getting these type of results in relatively low light at 96 fps and120 fps. Tom was able to do this at a reltively low ISO (800 to 1000) because he had a secret weapon at his disposal: the Zeiss Master Prime cinema lenses, which open up to T1.3. Not too shabby…
We both had fun shooting with the Master Primes together last month at TimeFest. Check out the video below for a glimpse of what we shot together with some very talented and quality people. And stay tuned, because in a few days Tom Guillmette will be releasing a half hour documentary on the inaugural TimeFest.
Uh, TimeFest 2011? Im sure it’s a small group that goes out in the middle of nowhere to shoot this, any chance of 1 spot opening up to a random-person? Cause that experience would be “badass”.
Great work, dudes. DubStep + time-lapse is awesome
VERY inspiring! Great job!
But the final titles don’t look that high level as the timelapse itself though…
Best regards.
Am I seeing partial frames exposed when it strobes, a result of rolling shutter, or is that just how the concert is?
Vincent Laforet Reply:
August 27th, 2011 at 12:17 am
Strobes – not rolling shutter
Some pretty spectacular footage there, the stars in particular. Makes you really feel the earth’s position in space.
Hi Vincent,
If you like Skrillex, you should take a look at his new music video directing by my friend Tony T. (shot with RED-MX in Paris area).
more than 1 000 000 views in a week!
My brother and I had a blast working on the VFXs of this video. I also did the color grading (AE CS5).
I’m a big fan of your blog and hope you’ll enjoy this one:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheOfficialSkrillex
better quality on the producers’ Vimeo account:
http://www.vimeo.com/27911262
best,
Julien
@Vincent Laforet, At 27 seconds thats just strobes?
What us the phone app to find milkyway
Vincent Laforet Reply:
September 8th, 2011 at 12:24 am
Skywatch or Go Skywatch
Shooting at F1.3 might solve the lighting equation, but it also gives you a hair-thin focus area, very likely resulting in large parts of the image being soft, right?
Vincent Laforet Reply:
September 8th, 2011 at 12:20 am
Absolutely
@Vincent Laforet, I think that’s what strobes look like when you have a high shutter speed and the camera has a rolling shutter. The epic holds up way better that the dslr’s tho!
Great job, amazing videos
How do You get so bright sky in 41s, 50s (Time Escape), in these sequences? What camera (Canon, Red?), only camera settings, or postproduction?
Great videos.
Vincent Laforet Reply:
January 7th, 2012 at 6:08 am
Manual exposure 🙂