The White Mountain is Charles Leung's first time-lapse video, showing the stars and our galaxy sweep beautifully across the Hawaiian sky. It was shot in Mauna Kea, Hawai'i using a Canon 5D Mark II (with an assortment of lenses) at ISO6400 using 30 sec exposures and 15 sec intervals.
Here's a video that's so creative and awesome it's sure to get your artistic juices flowing. OK Go just put up the music video to their song "This Too Shall Pass", and it's one of the coolest music videos I've ever seen. Basically the whole video shows a gigantic Rube Goldberg contraption built in a warehouse, with the timing and placement of every person and element perfectly integrated into the song.
The above is a beautiful slow motion video (1000fps) shot of dogs jumping for dog treats flying through the …
Most of you probably know that JPEG is lossy compression method, meaning compression permanently throws out data and detail. Luckily, a typical compression can save 10 times the space of an uncompressed image without sacrificing much noticeable quality. However, if the image is repeatedly compressed and saved, artifacts introduced during compression become more and more obvious.
This past Monday, Japanese lens corp Tamron launched a new 12 week video series on their YouTube channel geared towards helping beginners understand their equipment. Each video is 1 minute long, and will cover topics such as white balance, RAW vs. JPEG, and more. Once this introductory series is complete, they plan on posting intermediate and advanced videos as well.
Light painting is when you use bright points of light and long exposure times to "paint" light into a photograph. You've probably seen numerous tutorials on the technique by now, but if you haven't, we posted a brief tutorial on the technique about half a year ago.
I'm a sucker for time-lapse videos, especially ones that are edited well. This video of a Pearl Jam concert last month took a whopping 10,000 photographs to make. One photograph was taken every six seconds between 9:09AM and 11:29PM (Wowzers!).