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Waterfalling in love with Iceland: Timelapse Showfest 2013 bronze winner

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#1 gantico
I'd like to share my 4k time-lapse short film, recently awarded as Timelapse Showfest bronze winner: gantico.com/waterfalling

LRTimelapse was essential for deflickering and for animating raw development settings: it allowed me to realize the color transitions I had in my mind, from the blue of the icebergs to the red of martian terrains immersed in volcanic fumes. It's the dream of any colorist to grade a whole film with Lightroom and LRTimelapse, everything seems possible and new creatives approaches can be experimented.

A few nerdy details for this film: I shot more then 57.000 raw pictures for around 180 timelapse sequences, 70 of them went into the final editing. I’ve spent many full months in the post-production, not for adding special effects but for removing distractions and trying to make the images as pure as possible. I painted out an infinite number of tourists, birds, cars and many (not all) fast moving and disturbing things.

[Video: https://vimeo.com/80565712]

I also add a short backstage about my adventures in the production, with some post-production at the end:
[Video: https://vimeo.com/80414217]

Please share it if you like it!
thanks
.... Giovanni Antico
.... Photographer & filmmaker / Shooting still & motion pictures
.... Adobe Certified Expert / Adobe Certified Instructor
.... http://www.facebook.com/gantico
.... http://www.gantico.com
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#2 davidlmorel
Fabulous work! I can't imagine the efforts you put in to both capture and process the images to achieve what you did!
David Morel
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#3 gantico
(2013-12-17, 00:14)davidlmorel Wrote: Fabulous work! I can't imagine the efforts you put in to both capture and process the images to achieve what you did!

Thanks David, yes it has been a huge effort, especially post-production at 4K on RAW files in After Effects! I took me more then 2 years, but let's say that I could have done it in some months if I hadn't commercial productions, clients and students distracting me...
.... Giovanni Antico
.... Photographer & filmmaker / Shooting still & motion pictures
.... Adobe Certified Expert / Adobe Certified Instructor
.... http://www.facebook.com/gantico
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#4 richparry
Excellent, very creative, I loved it all. The birds at 3:05 were unique. Thanks for sharing.
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#5 gantico
(2013-12-21, 20:57)richparry Wrote: Excellent, very creative, I loved it all. The birds at 3:05 were unique. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for your comment Richparry. The sequence with birds was just an experiment, but at the end I liked it and it was a good match with the final music crescendo, so I kept it in the final editing. Glad that you like it.

Ironically, for one sequence with birds as main subject, I had to remove distracting birds from many other timelapses, especially the one with long exposures where birds were creating annoying blurred lines...

cheers
.... Giovanni Antico
.... Photographer & filmmaker / Shooting still & motion pictures
.... Adobe Certified Expert / Adobe Certified Instructor
.... http://www.facebook.com/gantico
.... http://www.gantico.com
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#6 richparry
Thank you for reply. In your Backstage Production video you removed tourists. Can I ask for details how you did it. I am guessing that in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw, you used the Blur tool and stepped through every image and removed every tourist. Am I right?

If you shot the timelapse in Raw, do you convert to DNG or keep it in the original NEF or CR2 Raw format.
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#7 gantico
(2013-12-27, 20:42)richparry Wrote: Thank you for reply. In your Backstage Production video you removed tourists. Can I ask for details how you did it. I am guessing that in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw, you used the Blur tool and stepped through every image and removed every tourist. Am I right?

If you shot the timelapse in Raw, do you convert to DNG or keep it in the original NEF or CR2 Raw format.

I mainly used After Effects clone tool to remove tourists, birds, dust on the sensor and many other distracting elements. It's far better than Lightroom or Camera RAW because you can clone from previous and following frames.

I imported the RAW sequences straight in After Effects and I keep the CR2 raw format. I converted to DNG lossy all the second choice sequences, but in a future I might convert everything to save space.
.... Giovanni Antico
.... Photographer & filmmaker / Shooting still & motion pictures
.... Adobe Certified Expert / Adobe Certified Instructor
.... http://www.facebook.com/gantico
.... http://www.gantico.com

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