Everyone knows of my growing interest in time lapse. Here's a new twist from Ross Ching: shoot time lapses of LA's highways and take out all of the cars! The amount of time Ross had to spend in post masking out the cars using Photoshop and FCP is probably less than I imagine but at the same time more than I can imagine! He talks about it at his blog, here.
It looks like he also did some lovely work with color grading, and I suspect, but don't know for a fact, that the panning through some of the sequences was done in post and not with a slider or dolly at the shoot. A a couple of weeks ago a photographer friend of mine asked me if that would be possible. From a practicality standpoint, I wasn't so sure just because of the amount of time involved with computer crunching.
Very, very creative work that ads a whole new dimension to the LA reality that is never without a hideous amount of traffic. Good music. Clever and creative. Tim likes!
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