SF to Paris in Two Minutes

More of these time lapses at http://beepshow.com

I shot a photo roughly every two miles between take-off in San Francisco and landing in Paris CDG to make this airplane time lapse. For some reason the Vimeo version of this is more linked to: http://vimeo.com/21822029

Shot with a 5d2, a time-lapse controller, and a 16mm - 35mm, mixed with some iPhone shots. The flight path from SF to Paris goes well over greenland and the arctic circle, where you can see "northern" lights from all sides of the plane, which explains why I could shoot them facing South.

Big thanks to the folks at http://uxlondon.com for inviting me to europe to speak - if it wasn't for them I wouldn't have made the trip. The music is a modified template of "Gain" used with permission from DETUNE ltd. denkitribe http://soundcloud.com/denkitribe/gain - I created this arrangement on the Korg iMS20 iPad App, and it's my first custom score. Edits and pans in After Effects CS5 and iMovie.

The photos during take-off and landing are all computer models and totally rendered because I would never use an electronic device during times when the FAA prohibits them. I did get lucky and have a whole row to myself to setup the tripod and gear.

Thanks to my neighbors for not minding an SLR click every 2 to 30 seconds for 11 hours, and thanks to the whole Air France flight crew for being insanely friendly and allowing me to shoot. Thanks to @ztaylor for showing me the Korg iMS20 iPad App. Thanks to @jayzombie and the #nerdbird on the way to SXSW this year for helping me come up with the idea. Thanks to @somnabulent for the idea of live scoring. Thanks to you for actually reading this far. You are a champion.

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[999lifegoes]

This needs double the views,just unbeliavable.

[nbolt]

@999lifegoes Thanks so much. I really appreciate that. For some reason the Vimeo version has 3 Million views so I probably should have just picked one place...

[kaitlinalexandra5]

plane trips seem so much more interesting in 2 minutes

[MrZzHD]

1:08 NORTHERN LIGHTS what !?

[germdisco]

@beer94 The normal route doesn't quite go to the North Pole. Take a look at the Great Circle Mapper website, and plug in SFO-CDG. The route goes to the north, over Montana, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Hudson bay, the southern tip of Greenland, but then it turns south, goes south of Iceland, north of Ireland, across Wales or so, and into France.

[dipu94321]

wait.what are those lights below at 1;19?

[mikeem50]

Very nice!

[Gator115]

night landing in los angeles sent me here

[ChiaraUgarelli]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!! amaaaazing

[marcio8481]

MOTHER OF GOD

(O.O)

[BestSanFranciscoBusi]

How about doing time lapse videos for other trips?

[lowe442]

I can't stop watching :) I love how you adjusted the camera right before the northern lights. Great video

[astronomyphotography]

Great time lapse, especially where the northern lights can be seen! I have just started to make some of my own cloud time lapses.