360 Degree HDR Timelapse

[N8Ryder]

Cool. Looks like a tornado!!!

[pantone82]

The music sucks.

[asdlocombian]

Wow! pretty awesome man! that was fucking beautiful!

super shitty quality though. Also, music sucks :3

[BuildingCastlesMusic]

OH YOU GOTTA BE FREAKING KIDDING ME. WHERE'S THE BEAT DROP? I was anticipating the beat drop in that song so bad that I couldn't even pay attention to video. Someone needs to be punched in the face!

[JackRussellTerrier2]

Moonflower. I've grown them from seed. No success in growing the 2nd generation of seeds though.

[ematsphotography]

Where did you get this song? The name doesn't exist on his homepage.

[Mokropot]

This is great!

[FastestIntegra]

Realy cool I like this one

[samuraimacisthebest]

nice. lot of work?

[daddymalibu]

when you astral travel, you see 360

[jcmegabyte]

Wow - trippy effect! Looks like a fish-eye lens all straightened-out somehow. :D

[OasisDirective]

Yes, wow, and lets see some more. Get out of the city with this!

[boywithadolphin]

Love you videos. Here is one of mine, please comment on my videos, thanks

[kalifaqatar]

Great stuff! Did you stitch the photos to make it 360?

[milapse]

better explanation here: vimeo 1484514 (google it)

[goldenboi24k]

btw, how many HDRs did this combine ?

[goldenboi24k]

Can you upload this to Vimeo ?

I wanna see it in true HD.

[goldenboi24k]

Thanks lol.

[goldenboi24k]

What is the name of this song ???

[milapse]

Copy and pasted from the description:

Mysterymen (track:"my backwards friends")

[JCMovies]

6,000 shots! How do you get this with HDR? Doesn't that mean you have to tediously combine three bracketed images to get the HDR, and then do that 2,000 times all over again? That seems like it would take forever to do...unless there's an automated way?

[goldenboi24k]

How many HDRs is this ??

[milapse]

If I understand what your asking... This is a little under 2000 frames captured with three brackets (so around 6000 total shots).

[goldenboi24k]

END OF THE WORLD !!!!!!!

[braytonskates]

dude now that is awesome. a lot better. soo cool.

[malickfan]

very interesting. once i get a fisheye i might have to try this!

[capriceofficial]

Beautiful!

[mephisto212]

Sweet. Would be better without the top 50 pixels or so. When the clouds go up to the top of the frame they form a band. Could you get that result by aiming off-zenith(?)?

[MPPhotography]

ok excuse the time lapse noob here but how did you make it 360? Is that just the field of view of the 4.5 lens?

[MPPhotography]

lol excuse me no sure why I wrote 360 as field of view. be kind of impossible to do that. still not sure how you are making it 360? Is bracket 3 shots for the first HDR frame then move 180 and bracket 3 more shots for the next HDR frame then back to first position and do it all over again?

[milapse]

The 4.5 produces a 180d FOV full circle on a 1.5(or 1.6) crop factor sensor. By shooting straight up and then 'unwrapping' the circle in post (PS batch processed using flexify by flaming pear) the 360d equirectilinear frames result.

[MPPhotography]

that makes sense. didn't even think about that

[elellilrah]

Hey, nice work. Good combo with the HDR action to squeeze a bit more out.  I'll have to add that to the toolkit. I'll have to get CS 3 now...

[mattdolnik]

damnit... you beat me to it

I guess I gotta step it up and have a 360degree-panning-HDR-infrared­-timelapse...

curious did you buy or make the 360 lens

[milapse]

"hdr-infrared-timelapse" - was thinking about it the other day... It would be cool in black and white. Anyway, this is the newly released Sigma 4.5mm F2.8 - it's impressive glass even wide open.

[Bluewave42]

Dude, you keep pushing the time-lapse envelope. HDR _and_ 360 pano now! That must have taken ages to process! Quite a trippy result.

[dsuggitt]

Nice!! Very cool.  Pricey lens huh?

[COroom156]

good intermission

[f3xpgm]

This was very cool and diferent!

So, i sent a message to that company you told us about in one of your videos (those who sell 2 axis motors) but they didn't answer yet. I'm thinking bout buying a telescope and use the motor that comes with it, it's only one axis but i guess it works the same way, just to figure out a way to solve weight balance issue!

[milapse]

Telescope warehouse is a mom-n-pop sort of operation so sometimes patience is the key. If you if you end up getting an equatorial mount weight is usually not an issue, but they tend to be heavy and less 'portable'.

[luckyjopot]

sir , now i know what secret in doing a good views but it takes time. thank you for sharing the knowledge of your curiousity , share with us the moment we failed to wait in short time. you did it! i love it!

[tommyk77]

the technical jargon i'm seeing in the comments goes right over my head :-P but this was great. i really like that shot. it's quite mezmerising

[mikehedge]

genius!

[tawayama]

...well, not 'as much as I want', that is true. I have CCP2, but am not using it for the time-lapse capture, I'm shooting straight to CF cards using the MC-36 for the timer. Photomatix? I'll look it up. Thanks!

[milapse]

oops I meant 'camera' control pro... I'm confused - Isn't CCP2 only for the D3 and D300? or does it work with earlier models? Sounds like you need to pick up Christian Bloch's "HDRI handbook" - super informative about HDR.

[tawayama]

CCP2 will work with all previous Nikons as well as the D3 and D300. I could tell you about the new Dxxx that I'm testing, but that'd get me in trouble.

I've played with HDR a bit, but ended up preferring my own layering and contrast control. Usually anything 'auto' has not satisfied.

[tawayama]

contd...

But...I'm learning that with long strings of images, the less I have to do the better. Honestly your videos and tutorials have taught me a LOT. I'm incorporating time-based imagery into my thesis project now, so thanks for the inspiration. Still have to get that sweet motorized head.

I just looked at the Photomatix software. Looks pretty nice. I'm all Macintosh, so I'll have to figure out yet another piece of software to emulate Windows then run their software! Keeping up is hard!

[diskojez]

Nice tunes, cheers Jay!!!

[stretch151]

soo nice man.

keep em coming

~stretch151

[tawayama]

Tell me about the HDR aspect of the imaging. I am shooting my time-lapse with a D1x and a D2x, can auto-bracket in any direction and amount I want. I am doing very simple editing with QTPro and iMovie (hoping to get into some real editing software soon...).

I have some instances where the HDR would be sweet, but haven't found out what software you guys are using to string your images together with.

I have one of those 360 pano dome cameras for shooting stills.

Nice videos, good teaching!

[milapse]

Well, you can AEB +/- 4eV in 9 brackets... not necessarily "any amount you want" ;-)

I use capture control pro (you'll need that for your cams) and batch process in Photomatix. That's the basics!

I'm getting close to finishing the DSLR section of my little guides so you'll get a heapin' helpin' of info in there too..

[macman13]

dude, sweet new lens