You are still using the concept of HDR photography just making it possible to see it properly. Giving the effect of HDR that we can see. Tone mapping is a technique used to take the colours and tones from a HDR master image that most displays simply cannot display properly and map them onto a low dynamic range image. But the tone mapped version was something special. The straight timelapse of this view was nice. I stole the footage from him and messed around with it in Photomatix Pro and using the tone mapping setting I tweaked it around a fair bit until I got something that was striking… Mr Kessler and I The first HDR tone mapped attempt Eric showed me an example frame and it looked nice. I had experimented just once with bracketing exposure for timelapse a while back but never did the post work on it. Eric had done a 7 bracket timelapse with his GH2. It was the next morning when I went to pick up my cameras. It was not at this point that I had my Eureka moment. I went over to Tower 3 to help Eric Kessler set up his camera for a timelapse, I took two cameras with me too to capture his angle as he was facing the other way. Without that glue it was just random shots. Be it a theme, an object, a character, a story. Up until this point I had a collection of timelapses being taken but no real glue…it’s the glue that holds a piece together. That was not going to stop me, I just had to rethink…So after about 2 days at the hotel I started! As I progressed I got more into it and then something happened that clicked and inspired me completely… The view was still pretty special, just lacking in focus for a piece. When I saw the view I was impressed but slightly disappointed. Although I hadn’t seen what the view was. I wanted a great view with the plan of doing an epic timelapse there. I booked the room at the MGM Signature many months ago. Sitting with a camera for 12 hours + whilst it captures a timelapse is not much fun and I really don’t have the patience to do or the time to be totally honest. ![]() Doing them in controlled environments where you can leave them for many many hours makes things easier there is no doubt. Very time consuming and this one was by far the most time consuming I have ever done. The process of actually filming timelapses is not a lot of fun most of the time. Being inspired makes filming so much more fun! I was pretty much burned out after the 12 city tour of Canon Filmmakers Live so I was not very inspired when I got to Vegas. There is only so much you can do without what you are doing feeling repetitious even if you are capturing something totally new. The one in Sydney and the one in Seattle. So this piece…I had already done two films of view from hotel rooms recently. ![]() Lots of cards, batteries and mains power supplies and patience! Miller Solo DS20 3 stage carbon fibre tripod Music by the awesome Clint Mansell from the stunning movie “Moon”īTS of “24 Hours of Neon” from Philip Bloom extras on Vimeo.ĭemo of how to use photomatix pro for HDR tone mapped timelapse from Philip Bloom extras on Vimeo.Ĭanon Lenses: 17mm TS, 24mm TS, 14mm F2.8. ![]() I forgot I had it and edited it in.Ģ4 Hours of Neon Commentary by PhilipBloomĢ4 Hours of Neon from Philip Bloom on Vimeo. Do not do a drinking game every time I say “erm”! Also I added a shot near the end which is not mentioned in this, it’s the one of the ants at the pool third shot from last. It’s a lot longer than the video and gives you loads of info about the shoot and how I did it! Enjoy!!! To listen to the commentary either download it or wait for the video to load up then only press play when instructed to do so and then pause also when told too.
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