Staggered time shift time-lapse Night Driving experiment, Amazing light trails, Derby, UK

Trippy cool colours !!!!!!
In this video I have been experimenting with mixing multiple time-lapse sequences together along a staggered time-shifted timeline. I hope to create some more of these as I think the effect if pretty cool just using a second hand camera that cost £30 !

I wonder what this would look like projected onto a massive screen in a nightclub?

UPDATE : May 2010, I created a special version of this video to be used as a 30 foot backdrop to a show in America. See that video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttortza8mjQ


Please watch in HD mode and fullscreen for best results.

The video is made from lots of photographs taken with a cheap second-hand modified Canon Ixus 430 digital camera. Because each shot is a long exposure photograph of about 1 second it means that any light sources such as car lights or street lights become long light trails.

I created the video in Sony Vegas Pro 9 using the import image sequence option. The rendered file that has been uploaded to Youtube here is 252Mb

Driving Route :
Starting on Holcombe Street in Pear Tree, Derby
Left onto Dairy House Road, Pear Tree Road, Normanton Road, Mill Hill Lane, Mount Street, Burton Road, Abbey Street, Macklin Street, Becket Street, Wardwick, Cheapside, Strand, Wardwick, Cheapside, Bold Lane, Cathedral Road, Full Street, Corporation Street, Morledge,
St Alkmunds Way, Ford Street, Stafford Street, Friary Lane, Curzon Street, Uttoxeter New Road, Corden Avenue, Chain Lane, Burton Road, Manor Road, Uttoxter New Road, Uttoxeter Old Road, Friar Gate, Bridge Street, Agard Street, Ford Street, Friar Gate, Vernon Street, South Street, Uttoxter Old road, Slack Lane, Cheviot Street, Lyttelton Street, Brakensdale Avenue.

Music Credits :
Abyss 2 by Jesse Valentine
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/278217
Licensed under Creative Commons

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Cheers
Andy

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Staggered
• time
• shift
• time-lapse
• Night
• Driving
• experiment
• Canon
• Ixus
• 430
• long
• exposure
• Derby
• Derbyshire
• derbyphotos

[yasswah]

This is so amazing! Love your work!

[comedyhunter]

@yasswah Thanks, Glad you enjoyed it. Check out my other vidoes and subscribe if you like them!

[staylorrx]

Andy, I love this. I read you description, but have a couple other questions: did you shoot this through a car windshield? Was the camera mounted or were you hand-holding it?

[comedyhunter]

@staylorrx Hi,

Yes it was shot through the car windshield.

Yes the camera was dash mounted. The photos would be very blurred if hand-held as exposure was 1 second so the light trails would not be straight, they would have wobbles!

[SkateHunterGl2]

Could you do The light trails with a video camera ?

[comedyhunter]

@SkateHunterGl2 NO, video is 25-30 frames per second fixed exposure time.

[rbrs1]

Hello, I live in Brazil and would like the ability to use their images in the recording of a video clip. Confirming the possibility will be given due credit to its creators. This work is not for profit and is part of a publicity campaign for a disk that will be freely distributed here in Salvador Bahia Brazil. I await your contact. Thank you!

[binomeach]

it's fucking awesome !

[TheGreenPlague]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bvixer]

Nice work.

[rachbrett]

I likey

[icannotfly]

this should only be watched sober, might want to put a warning up...