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The travel diaries 2011

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:56:54 +0000

Loneliness, detached, overwhelmed, fascinated, homesick – a year of travelling around the globe on business trips.

Gunther Machu flew 6 times around the world, spent 1.5 weeks (net) in airplanes 2011 and collected shots the whole year for this project.

He walked for hours around airports to get the one shot, got nearly arrested at Chicago O’Hare but had some good luck too!

Filmed at Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, Chicago, Houston, Dubai, Frankfurt and my home – airport Vienna.

Shot on Lumix GH1 and GH2 (both hacked), by making use of the ETC mode on the GH2 I was able to get up to 3200mm equiv. focal length.

Hope you enjoy this!

Brno HDR

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:25:03 +0000

camera / edit: Jan Minol
samadhiproduction.cz
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BRNO – Czech Republic

HDR motion control timelapse video

filmed October/November 2011

music:
Paper People (Instrumental)
by Freak Owls

Athens, the little great city

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:20:34 +0000

Enojy the video from Emmanouil Papadopoulos

music | Gustavo Santaolalla – Pajaros

Incredible Iceland by Greg Kiss

admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:32:51 +0000

It has taken 6 months on and off shooting to finish this incredible portrait of Iceland

Music by Dan Phillipson (twitter.com/danphillipson)

Technical stuff:
- Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly
- Canon 1Dmk4 & 5Dmk2
- Canon 16-35/2.8 & 24-70/2.8 & 15fe/2.8
- B&W Filters

I Believe I can Fly

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:29:05 +0000

A free excerpt from Sebastien Montaz-Rosset documentary.

A 40 minutes Feature documentary will be available on 11.11.11 at 11 a.m for download on my video blog sebmontaz.com.

Highlining pioneers Tancrede and Julien have come to the spectacular and atmospheric cliffs of the norwegian fjords to try and turn their ultimate dream into reality.

The talented pair have cemented their friendship over the past years exploring the sport of highlining, from the heights of the alps to the skyscrapers of Paris.

Midnight Sun at Iceland

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:14:08 +0000

What the author explains:

BEST VIEWED IN HD AND FULLSCREEN (with scaling off)

Midnight Sun: A natural phenomenon occurring in the summer months north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun never fully sets and remains visible 24 hours a day.

This short time lapse film was shot during the Icelandic Midnight Sun in June of 2011.

For 17 days I travelled solo around the entire island shooting almost 24 hours, sleeping in the car, and eating whenever I had the time. During my days shooting this film I shot 38,000 images, travelled some 2900 miles, and saw some of the most amazing, beautiful, and indescribable landscapes on the planet. Iceland is absolutely one of the most beautiful and unusual places you could ever imagine. Especially during the Midnight Sun when the quality of light hitting the landscape is very unusual, and very spectacular.

Iceland is a landscape photographers paradise and playground, and should be number 1 on every photographers must visit list. Iceland during the Midnight Sun is in sort of a permanent state of sunset. The sun never full sets and travels horizontally across the horizon throughout the night, as can be seen in the opening shot and at the :51 second mark in the video.

During the Arctic summer, sunset was at midnight and sunrise was at 3am. The Arctic summer sun provided 24 hours a day of light, with as much as 6 hours daily of “Golden light”. Once the sun had set it wouldn’t even get dark enough for the stars to come out, and they don’t start to reappear until August.

My advice to everyone out there, photographer or not, is simple… You MUST visit Iceland sometime during your lifetime. You will never regret it.

Cameras and Lenses:
2 Canon 5DII DSLR cameras
1 Canon 7D
Various Canon lenses

Music
“The world is our” by This Will Destroy You

Reseau Ferre de France commercial

admin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:09:11 +0000

Nice 3D commercial ad from France.

Annonceur : RFF
Agence :W / ATJUST
Directeur de la Création: Thomas Stern – Ivan Pierens
Directeur Artistique FILM: Ivan Pierens
Concepteur-Rédacteur FILM: Thomas stern
Réalisateur : Thierry Poiraud
Responsable Annonceur : Christophe Piednoël- Thierry Jankowski, Anne Le Garrec
Responsable Agence: François Lamotte – Grégoire Weil
Production : Paranoid
Production 3D : BUF

5:46 am

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:09:15 +0000

by Olivier Campagne & Vivien Balzi
Music by Brice Tillet

100 years of East London style

admin — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:45:24 +0000

100 years of East London style in 100 seconds. Sept 13th 1911 – Sept 13th 2011.

Great commercial video.

Funky London

admin — Mon, 09 May 2011 06:15:22 +0000

London is the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. A leading global city with a diverse range of peoples, cultures and religions. More than 300 languages are spoken within its boundaries. A city that lives.
London is Funky!

This is Kostas Petsas full London timelapse sequence, shot in early December 2010, in an attempt to draw a Christmas Cityscape.

Music: “Plan your escape” by gmz ccmixter.org/files/gmz/23301  is licensed under a Creative Commons license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/