VIDEO: False Creek

VIDEO: False Creek


In Explore: 3rd position on Tuesday, October 28, 2008

FALSE CREEK
by Jim Hejl

This is a view over False Creek in Yaletown (in Vancouver, BC)
Posted on Sunday, April 20th, 2008.

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Equipment:
- 5D still camera (it captured 2263 images over 5 hours)
- Images remotely captured with "Remote DSLR Pro" on a WinXP machine
- Cropped, batch adjusted, and batch exported in Aperture
- Combined images with QuickTime PRO
- All post work done in FinalCut Pro 5

If you want to have some fun, "scrub" the video forward and backward (using the timeline), and watch the water level change (and the entire dock move!). Pretty entertaining :)

The technical challenge here is to expose each frame properly, without getting horrible flicker. The daytime shots were shuttered arround 1/250th, while the night shots were often 7 second exposures (or more). This variable exposure is difficult, because any SLIGHT difference between any 2 frames will cause a flicker (and the human brain is very sensitive to flicker). So, the magic trick is to go from 1/250th to 7 second exposures smoothly. If you've done time-lapse over varying illumination conditions, you know what I'm talking about. it isn't an easy problem.

-- SOUNDTRACK --

Artist: Radiohead
Album: Radiohead - Me & This Army: Radiohead Remixes (2005)
Track: You & What Army (bonus beats to bust rhymes to in the shower)

If you have Quicktime 7, you can view a less-compressed version on my site:
hejl.com/portfolio/video/False_Creek_NTSC_3ivx.mov

Cheers,

Jim Hejl
hejl.com/

(the first few frames of video are needed b/c Flickr uses the "first frame" to generate the thumbnail ----- not the marked Poster Frame in the stream. Grrrrrrrr........)

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