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Watch This Stunning Timelapse of Scenes in Paris

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Paul Richardson spent three weeks in Paris recently and tried to capture the city’s classic sights as well as the modern business side. While he captured some fantastic scenes, his editing really made this timelapse stand out.

He spent three weeks shooting, followed by 5 weeks of editing the images and footage for a grand total of about 400 hours on this project. That is 2.5 hours for every second of this video, which was entirely self-funded and shot purely out of his love for timelapse.

He shot the video using a Canon 6D, EF 17-40mm f/4 lens, 50mm f/1.8 lens and 70-200mm f/4 L lens. He used a homemade dolly coupled to an eMotimo TB3 for the motion control sequences.

I’m pretty sure that I said “holy crap” out loud at the 1:10-1:20 mark on my first time through. Solid work Paul.

You can find Paul here on his Facebook page.

 

Paris in Motion (Part 4) Epic Timelapse

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Photography Bay reader Mayeul Akpovi has been creating fantastic timelapse projects of Paris, France since 2012. His painstaking work has paid off yet again in a fourth video released last week.

His gear used in this video includes:

Canon 5D Mark III
Canon 24-70mm f2.8 L USM
Canon 17-40mm f4 L USM
Canon 70-300mm
Filters: ND2 to ND400

If you liked this one, also watch Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

You can find more of Mayeul’s work here on his website.

‘From Bump to Buzz’ Combines Live Action and Timelapse for a Great Music Video

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This adorable birth announcement video combines live action video with a time lapse shot over a 9 month period. In the 2 days since the video was uploaded, it has over 2.4 million views and counting.

Tom Fletcher notes on his YouTube channel that they took photos every day through the 9 months of their pregnancy to create this fantastic three minute multimedia piece. Additionally, Tom wrote and performed the song “Something New” to go along with their presentation of the new addition to the family.

GoPro’s “On the Quest for Glory” Features Winter Olympians in the Hunt for Gold

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This short video, shot 100% on the GoPro HERO3+, features Olympians “On the Quest for Glory” at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. It shows off the amazing preparation Olympic athletes endure with unique shots that GoPro cameras continue to deliver.

I’m fired up for the Olympics now….  Only 35 days to go!

Watch This Video: Fire Breathing With a 24 GoPro Array

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GoPro’s Tyler Johnson put together this cool array of 24 GoPro HERO 3 cameras, which provides a “budget” alternative to the high-end Matrix bullet time effect.

GoPro Bullet Time Array

You can see the handheld array in the above frame grab. I think Tyler did a solid job of blending the frames together in post for the smooth bullet time effect.

[via PetaPixel]

A Trippy Look at Content-Aware Fill in Video

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We’ve seen a lot of different uses for Content-Aware Fill since it was initially introduced as a feature of Photoshop. There have been plenty of failures and successes for the feature. All that I have seen have been in still images.

The above video, however, puts Content-Aware Fill to the test on moving images for an interesting (if, less than perfect) take on the feature.

After watching the video for a few seconds though, I started thinking about the information that is available frame to frame and how Content-Aware Fill could leverage this additional info for application in video. It is already possible to automate this process in Photoshop for a static scene with Image Stacks – like so.

So where is our Content-Aware Fill for video Adobe? Use those other frames to make this work.

[via John Nack]