PANO | LA

Hier wieder eines der klas­si­chen Ti­mel­ap­se-Vi­de­os und doch ist die­ses Video eine klei­ne Be­son­der­heit und das nicht nur, weil wir lange kei­nes mehr die­ser Art hat­ten. Mehr als zwei Jahre Arbeit ste­cken in den knapp sechs Mi­nu­ten in her­aus­ra­gender Auf­lö­sung, die beim Ein­satz zwei­er Canon 5DI­II-Ka­me­ras ent­stan­den ist, die mit­ein­an­der syn­chro­ni­siert wur­den: 10k x 4K. Das war ei­gent­lich gar nicht das Ziel, so eine Auf­lö­sung zu er­rei­chen, viel mehr stand der Pan­ora­ma-Look im Vor­der­grund. Los An­ge­les ist mit sei­nem Lich­ter­meer aber auch ein sehr dank­ba­res Motiv – die so­ge­nann­te Licht­ver­schmut­zung nimmt man dafür doch gern mal in Kauf:

Shoo­ting Pano LA has been the most am­bi­tious, chal­len­ging, de­man­ding, and re­war­ding pro­ject I have worked on to date. It was shot over a pe­ri­od of two years ent­i­re­ly in true pan­o­ra­mic form using two syn­ced DSLR ca­me­ras side by side. The re­sul­ting pan­o­ra­mic ti­mel­ap­se foo­ta­ge comes in at a whop­ping 10K x 4K re­so­lu­ti­on when stit­ched. I did not shoot this film to achie­ve the ex­tre­me re­so­lu­ti­on. I shot it for the pan­o­ra­mic look, es­pe­cial­ly the com­pres­sed look you get when using long len­ses.

Shoo­ting pan­o­ra­mic ti­mel­ap­se was so­me­thing I had al­ways wan­ted to do. I love pan­o­ra­mic images and wan­ted to bring that look to ti­mel­ap­se, and I wan­ted to do it pro­per, not by fa­king it by just crop­ping the top and bot­tom of re­gu­lar ti­mel­ap­se shots. I gave it a try many years ago but was never able to get the images from the two ca­me­ras to sync pro­per­ly and get the images to stit­ched to­ge­ther cor­rect­ly.

A coup­le years ago I was con­tac­ted by a cli­ent wan­ting some pan­o­ra­mic ti­mel­ap­se shots of LA. I told them I had tried it in the past and it did not work out to well, but that I am wil­ling to give it ano­ther try. So I purcha­sed some new gear and set out to my local tes­ting lo­ca­ti­ons in Ma­li­bu. The in­iti­al shots were suc­cess­ful so I con­ti­nued shoo­ting / tes­ting for the next coup­le weeks. At that point I had ac­qui­red a few good test shots to show the cli­ent and sent them over to them. Long story short I never heard back from them about the pro­ject, but I kept shoo­ting any­ways. If it was not for that fai­led job/pro­ject I pro­bab­ly would have never got around to gi­ving pan­o­ra­mic ti­mel­ap­se ano­ther try.

PANO | LA - 10K