Tag: motion controlled

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  • Desert, rocky landscapes, before Sierra Nevada

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    Scene notes:

    Panning right, the shrublands in the foreground comprises the bottom quarter of the frame. Above, blue-sky with stray lower clouds casting shadow on the ground below, rapidly shifting. The wide mountain range, snowy and peaked with sharp jagged cliffs, are partly under a blanket, which transform slowly. ‘Caught’ on the land, they exist only here for any length of time before evaporating elsewhere.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 24 frames.

  • Panning over massive monoliths in Arches…

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    Scene notes:

    Arches National Park. Rapid shadows gain in the desert sands among the massive monoliths that stand from fast erosive geologic periods. No clouds are seen. The distant mountains in the background at the end of the day.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    5 seconds, 16 frames.

  • Inside Canyonlands, Needle District, midday 3 of 3

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    Scene notes:

    The continuation of another clip.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds.

  • Rocky Mountain National Park alpine meadow clouds 1 of 2

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    Scene notes:

    Motion controlled tripod in Rocky Mountain National Park on a partly cloudy day looking east, then south from a viewpoint.

  • Flying over Ísafjarðardjúp, a northern Icelandic fjord with small islands below

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    Scene notes:

    The UAS flies over sea water towards grassy islands, with pristine sky in the top half of the frame, along with a very few and light low-level clouds. No interval is used (full motion).
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds, 3 frames.

  • 3 of 3 | Sliding over mountain past green bushes and above the fog layer at dusk

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    Scene notes:

    The continuation of another clip, on a motion-controlled dolly, moving. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    27 seconds and 11 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Motion dolly in lesser known arch under Mt Whitney in daytime

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    Scene notes:

    A less well-known arch near Mt Whitney, this is the continuation of another clip. High striated Cirrus clouds are passing by.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 11 frames.

  • Just below beyond a high ridge, fog pours over and through trees mid-day

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    Scene notes:

    The stony cliff edge that is the foreground is being moved over on a dolly, observing flowing fog that is caught and rapidly flowing over the cresting hill’s ridge below.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds and 13 frames.