Time and again photographer Martin Heck has captured our attention by pushing the time lapse envelope. We've featured two of his 4K time lapses in the past, and today we get to show you something even more stunning: his 8K Patagonia time lapse captured entirely on a medium format camera.
Mercury just passed between the Earth and the Sun yesterday, a rare "planetary transit" that occurs about 13 times every 100 years. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft shot highly detailed photos of the astronomical event, and the beautiful time-lapse above is what resulted.
We've seen people do some cool things using NASA's beautiful images of Earth captured from the International Space Station (ISS). But Armand Dijcks' 4K space cinemagraphs might just take the zen-like cake.
We wouldn't be surprised if you've never heard of The Drakensberg before. It almost sounds like a region in Game of Thrones, but it's not: it's a mountain escarpment in South Africa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the subject of the timelapse above, and probably the newest addition to your bucket list.
Timelapse+, the makers of the new VIEW, call it "the intervalometer. redefined." We don't know about all that, but it does boast a few really neat features that will make it a very tempting purchase for all the timelapse photographers out there.
Here's a creative time-lapse of London by the filmmaker Matel. It combines day and night views of the city in each frame as a diptych.
Dawidi of Widicam.net created this beautiful time-lapse video by taking a single photo of each day's sunrise for 365 days.
Photographer Nao Tharp of Los Angeles, California, just released this short video that shows something neat he captured on a freezing cold winter night back on December 12th, 2015. While shooting a time-lapse of the Geminid meteor shower at Red Rock Canyon State Park in California's Mojave desert, his camera caught a bright meteor explosion and a resulting orange glowing plume that lingered for about 40 minutes.
The video above shows the same explosion at different magnifications and playback speeds.
Melbourne, Australia-based photographer Alexander Chin recently completed an impressive project that deals with the passage of time. Over the course of 3 years between March 2013 and February 2016, he repeatedly visited iconic locations in Melbourne and captured a timelapse in each season of the year.
He then edited the 4 seasons together into one frame to create the mesmerizing time-lapse video above, titled "The Four Seasons of Melbourne."
A major winter storm has been ripping through the East Coast of the United States, and many meteorologists warned of a "potentially historic blizzard" that can paralyze 1/3rd of the country.
A guy named Ryan captured this eye-opening GoPro time-lapse video that shows just how much snow was dumped on Purcellville, Virginia, during an intense period of snowfall between dusk and dawn.
When Washington, D.C.-based time-lapse photographer Andrew Geraci proposed to his girlfriend, Alicia Pituch, (who's also a photographer) recently, he decided to get creative with documenting the memory. He captured the memory in 360 degrees in two different ways: one with the help of 10 of his photographer friends, and one with a 360-degree camera.
When the 63-story Address Downtown Dubai hotel went up in flames on New Year’s Eve, photojournalist Dennis …
Back in 2013, we shared the work of photographer Richard Gottardo, …
Photographer and programmer Saulius Lukse made this clever 22-second-long time-lapse video in which the windows of a large apartment building are used as a ticker to wish viewers a happy new year -- all while the time-lapse continues to run in the rest of the scene.
To show the extensive work that can go into retouching a beauty portrait, editing guru Pratik Naik of Solstice Retouch created this 7-minute timelapse video showing how he spend 1.5 hours cleaning up a photo by photographer Jonas Jensen.
If you're a fan of both photography and science fiction, here's a movie you can add to your queue of things to watch: "Time Lapse." Released earlier this year, the film is about a mysterious camera device that shoots Polaroid pictures that show the future.
"Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24hrs into the future," the movie's synopsis reads. "They conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop..." You can watch the 2-minute trailer above.
Researchers at the University of Washington have figure out how to create 3D time-lapse video sequences of landmarks by using a collection of still photos found on the Internet. The 7-minute video above is a short presentation that shows the technology in action.
Cal Thomson of Manchester, UK, made this 11-minute video tutorial on creating a …
Hyperlapse videos generally show dazzling urban cityscapes filled with bright lights and tall skyscrapers. The video above is a …
Time-lapse photographer Patrick Cheung of PowerUpMotion created this short film titled "Time." It shows a blood moon rising over Hong Kong, with many of the scenes bouncing between day and night in sync with the music.
Photographer Geoff Tompkinson has been working on a new time-lapse technique that he calls the "HyperZoom." By matching up shots from camera zooms and pans, Tompkinson takes us on seamless journeys through locations that look like one long continuous shot.
His new video above is a HyperZoom video that explores Hallstatt, Upper Austria, a beautiful historic town that's listed as a Unesco World Heritage site.
The sky may be the next frontier for time-lapse and hyper-lapse techniques. Aerial videographer …
Storm chaser and time-lapse photographer Mike Olbinski has been turning his camera lens on the monsoon in Arizona for about 7 years, and this past summer he spent a whopping 48 days chasing storms. After 17,000 miles driven and 105,000 photos captured, Olbinski combined 55,000 of the best shots into the eye-popping time-lapse video above, titled "Monsoon II."
Did you know that you can easily see geostationary satellites by shooting time-lapse photos of the night sky? Reddit user jannne took his camera outside this week and managed to capture a number of satellites in their photos.
A year ago, photographer Julian Tryba was featured by Vimeo after creating a time-lapse of Boston using a technique he dubbed the "layer lapse." Now he's back again with the same concept applied to a different subject matter.
Tryba has spent the past few months traveling, shooting, and editing the 2.5-minute video above, titled "Timeless Dreams." It's a layer-lapse of the American Southwest.
20-year-old Hugo Cornellier of Canada has been taking one selfie a day before the word "selfie" became a thing. He started his daily ritual 8 years ago, when he was just 12 years old. This past weekend, Cornellier published the 2-minute above that shows himself growing up from age 12 to age 20.
Startup Overlab has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Hobie: a personal time lapse tool with the heart of a kitchen timer. Hobie utilizes an actual ordinary kitchen timer at its base to rotate the camera mount perched upon it. Simply dial-in the time on the base, insert your smartphone into the circular mount, and begin capturing easy time lapses. As a bonus, when the base finishes rotating, it rings loudly to let you know the process is complete -- and that your eggs are done boiling.
When photographer Knate Myers and his wife found out they would be having a baby, they decided to document …
You know those brilliant colors that appear when the sun is just rising or setting? While you may be lucky to see those colors for minutes in most parts of the world, in Iceland they can last for hours. Los Angeles-based photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee spent two weeks in Iceland from late June through early July, when the sun sets after midnight. He was able to capture some remarkable views of Iceland's landscapes glowing under the midnight sun.
The result of his trip was the 4-minute, 4K time-lapse video above, titled "Odyssey."
Rhino Camera Gear is a manufacturer of professional sliders and stabilization rigs for videographers and photographers alike. This month, we got a chance to test out two of their latest products, the Rhino Slider EVO Carbon and Rhino Motion module. Combined, both pieces of equipment promise to create butter-smooth videos and time-lapse effects.
UK-based photographer Jamie Brightmore tells us that he has been working on a new style of filmmaking: a "a bird's-eye aerial timelapse cinematography technique" that he calls the Satlapse. The 1-minute video above shows some sample Satlapse clips.
Photographer Tanya Musgrave shoots weddings professionally, but she also dabbles with photo manipulation on the side as a hobby. A groom she worked with recently asked her to do a special Star Wars photo based on the Battle of Hoth seen in The Empire Strikes Back. So, Musgrave shot a special photo on the way of the ceremony and then did the rest of the magic in Photoshop.
The 3-minute video above is a time-lapse of the long editing process.
FrontYardVideo pointed a camera at a caterpillar and captured this beautiful time-lapse video …
NASA’s New Horizons probe shot a number of close-up photos of Pluto during the first every flyby …
Hyperlapse artist Vadim Tereshchenko spent the past two years working on an ambitious project that showcases the beauty of Los Angeles. The fruit of his labor is the 2-minute video above, an eye-popping journey through the City of Angels.
In the summer time at Scott Base in Antarctica, there are 4 months in which the Sun never sets. From the latter part of October through the latter part of February, the Sun stays above the horizon line, giving each day 24 hours of sunlight.
New Zealand filmmaker Anthony Powell, the man behind the award-winning film Antarctica: A Year on Ice, created this 2-minute time-lapse video by pointing a camera at the Sun and tracking it over a full day of daylight.
On August 8th, 2015, Tucson, Arizona-based photographer Bryan Snider took his camera out …
When photography enthusiasts John and Sara Jennings found out they were expecting their first child, they decided to get capturing the pregnancy on camera. They shot a series of photos every week for 9 months while they painted a picture and set up the nursery. Afterward, they combined the shots into this creative 3-minute time-lapse video in which Sara gradually gets closer and closer to their daughter's birth as she's working on the room.
Los Angeles-based photographer and retoucher Julia Kuzmenko McKim just released this 1-minute time-lapse …
Photographer Jeff Boyce of Negative Tilt recently took an epic photography journey across the United States, shooting 70,000 photos across 15 states with 20,000 miles of driving. He then turned those frames into "Edge of Stability," the time-lapse video above that "highlights some of the most unique, awe-inspiring, and incredibly strange sights on the planet."