This is not the first time filmmaker Matthew Maniego has made a San Francisco time lapse, but this one’s perhaps even more astonishing than the first one.
I can’t even imagine how many hours of hard work a time lapse such as this one must take, not only taking the shots but the planning, the weather changes, the post processing… This is what Matthew told DIY Photography about the process.
Matthew told DIYP that he used relatively little equipment for the project. He used two cameras, a Canon 5D Mark III and a Sony A7S-II. He kept his lens selection equally as trim with Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L ll, 50mm f/1.2 L and 70-200mm f/4 L lenses.
Where Matthew didn’t skimp was on camera movement. All else being equal, moving the camera while shooting is what makes the best stand out. Of course, being able to move the camera isn’t enough on its own. One must also be able to move it well.
For this, Matthew used the Dynamic Perception Stage One motorized slider, along with the Emotimo TB3 3-axis motion control camera robot. He certainly used them to great effect. Some of the footage was even licensed for use in the Super Bowl in February.
Matthew tells us that the timelapse, which lasts a little over 2 minutes, involved shooting over 100,000 photographs, a little more than 1.5TB of storage space.
It took around six weeks in total to work on the footage. In Lightroom, the files were processed with LRTimelapse. Colour and grade applied with the help of VSCO presets. Adobe Premiere Pro was Matthew’s editor of choice for the final video.
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