Melting ice cube: time lapse photography

Black and white time-lapse photography reel of a melting ice cube, using over 2000 images. Produced by Donald Cameron (monophotography.co.uk).

Music: "New Memories" by John Powell (Bourne Supremacy). I respectfully acknowledge the artist's copyright ownership of this track, I am a fan and have purchased the song prior to its use here. If you like this track I encourage you to support the artist by buying the song and/or album.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• time
• lapse
• reel
• time-lapse
• melting
• ice
• cube
• donald
• cameron
• mono
• photography
• new
• memories
• bourne
• supremacy

[wonderwall135]

this is cool. so you set up a camera for a couple hours and just fastforwarded the footage on an editor?

[MonoPhotography]

@wonderwall135 Pretty much, it's over 2000 photos stitched together then timelapsed in quicktime. It's over 3 years ago I shot this now, would definitely be able to do a better one now (though I don't imagine Youtube needs yet another melting ice video!)

[xseablueEyes]

cool xD!

[MonoPhotography]

@xseablueEyes Cheers :)

[MonoPhotography]

@TheUnchainedMind Yes agree actually, drags on a bit until I started firing the hairdryer at it.

[TheUnchainedMind]

@MonoPhotography

Ah, as I thought, a hairdryer :)

Nice video, though I find it could've been shorter.

[TheUnchainedMind]

@TheDiscsOfPr0n

Of course it works just fine but the problem is that you're limited to the memory and battery life of the camera.

That ice cube probably took a couple of hours to melt , and a small ice tower I made a time lapse of on my channel took seven and a half hours to melt all the way. Can't do that with an average camera. Plus, by using interval photography you can make month long, year long time lapses...there is no limit but your will.

[wyantizer89]

ice.... it's so mysterious. 

[TheDiscsOfPr0n]

lol what i do is just take an hour long video and make it 100x faster

[MonoPhotography]

Thanks for viewing it. Yes this was actually my first test of the timelapse technique, the plan was to do a landscape/seascape one once I got the hang of it. Haven't quite got round to it yet but hope to sometime soon!