Timelapse showing Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage on descent

While technically, this clip is described as a sped up video, I am going to let it fall under the timelapse category, because some achievements need to be celebrated. This 30 seconds sped up video timelapse was taken from a camera on top of the first stage booster as it descended back to earth and landed on […]

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How to shoot a moving day to night timelapse (With a Canon body and a Nikon lens)

Time lapses that transition from day to night (or vice versa) are considered the Holy Grail of time lapses. Aside from the actual tactics of taking a time lapse you add in the added complexity of changing light. I’ll admit that it can be quite intimidating to even try. This  video from Mark Thorpe make it look […]

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Hugo shot a selfie every day for over eight and a half years

Stop motion and timelapse enthusiast, Hugo Cornellier reposts and updates his selfie timelapse every year or so, each time adding another 12 months’ worth of images onto the stack. This time around, he’s decided to ramp up the production value and stabilise all of the shots giving a much smoother and cleaner video, and he’s going […]

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GoPro timelapse and night vision nestcam capture nature’s nest thieves taking four bird eggs and a baby buzzard

Documenting nature isn’t always as cute and fluffy as we’d like it to be, and when it comes to the law of the jungle, the judge occasionally dons his black cap. I would imagine that this video isn’t quite what Tan Nguyen expected to capture when he setup his GoPro pointed at this American Robin nest […]

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GoPro timelapse and night vision nestcam capture nature’s nest thieves taking four bird eggs and a baby buzzard

Documenting nature isn’t always as cute and fluffy as we’d like it to be, and when it comes to the law of the jungle, the judge occasionally dons his black cap. I would imagine that this video isn’t quite what Tan Nguyen expected to capture when he setup his GoPro pointed at this American Robin nest […]

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Stunning 4K video of the Aurora Borealis and stars shot from the International Space Station

When it comes to giving us amazing views of the earth and space, few do it better than NASA, and this one’s going to take some effort to beat. NASA seem to have well and truly boarded and taken residence on the 4K bandwagon, and with footage like this, it’s easy to see why. Having never […]

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Meet Hercules, the world’s smallest programmable motorised camera dolly for video and timelapse

As visual creators, if and when we begin on that journey from stills to motion, one of the first things we learn is the power of a moving camera.  Once confined to the likes of big production companies, camera dollies and tracks have now become an almost essential piece of kit for many filmmakers and timelapse shooters. […]

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Using Photoshop and Timelapse to make an empty version of Paris

Recently posted to Reddit, is Mathieu Stern’s intriguing short film project “Alone in Paris“.  While Mathieu promises that a Behind The Scenes video is coming in a week or so, it’s always fun to speculate how things like this can be created. Some of the theories have already been shot down over on the Reddit […]

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Use this time stacking technique to create surreal landscapes

Stacking photographs made from a locked off tripod over a given duration is not a new technique, and has been commonly used for creating star trail images where single super long exposures can be troublesome, but this application of the process is particularly interesting and beautiful. An extension of timelapse photography, the Time Stack technique’s goal is to […]

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