Giorgio’s latest time-lapse One Night in Bangkok, created after returning from his last adventure in Thailand, is definitely worth seeing.
Let us allow George to talk a bit of the clip, before watching it:
Hello to all friends at Time Lapse Network and thanks to Marco for giving me the opportunity to share with you this short film shot in Bangkok.
“One night. In Bangkok.” was founded with the idea to share with everyone the feeling of traveling. It is in a very real way what I and my colleague Stephen did for 10 days in Bangkok: traveled far and wide in the city taking trains, going over bridges and skyscrapers. We were there to photograph the city for work. Precise goals and photographs targeted. In all this I had fun making a video that would give a sense of movement, the move to a big city at night.
Video recordings were all built within three hours. It may seem strange, but I simply mounted the 50 millimeters on the camera and started walking with the camera in my hands. The scenes on trains represent for me a big step forward. Like everyone I’ve always had a lot of embarrassment to shameless point a camera at someone. And in this video I did it and did it again. And it came to shooting video! It was “my first time”, I think I have overcome the obstacle. Manually focusing the lens directly, without follow focus and without stabilizer, in real time. The only scene “prepared” is the one where I walk on the bridge. I have yet to find a way to shoot a scene like that without the help of someone or a tripod 😉 but I wanted to appear in the video.
Timelapses, I think are the part that interests you most. In the video you can see three of them.
The first one, the most spectacular in my opinion, is shot through a window of a skyscraper. The main problem was to “fight” with the reflections . The lights behind me were reflected on the glass and you could see in the photos. I played a lot with the Tilt Shift and tilt until you find a plan that does not frame any reflections or reduce them to a minimum.
The other two are instead timelapse shot from a subway overpass. Bangkok is a very busy city, it is just to have the patience to go up 3 or 4 ramp of stairs, set up the tripod and let the camera do the rest.
Personally I find the timelapse wonderful to realize, it allows you to admire the scene and force you to do it for 10, 20 or 30 minutes. You and the camera (in addition to the passing curious and skeptical that look at you).
As for the post-production, all video footage are exactly as they’ve been taken with the SLR. I did not do any color correction and no processing. The timelapse instead are modified in contrast and color balance, it was just to find a compromise between the cold lights of the night and the warm lights of cars.
I have in mind one or two video with the theme Thailand where I spent 24 days, not only in Bangkok and I made a lot of video material for experimental purposes. I hope to be able in the next coming weeks to share other images and time lapses with you.
If you have any questions I am available! And if you have any suggestions on how to improve my shooting I will be really happy to read your comments!
Rock On!
Gio
www.giorgiofochesato.com
And now, the video
It’s time to taste this beautiful work, made by a good Italian photographer who made timelapse production off a living too!
Equipment Used
Cameras: Canon 5D Mark II
Lenses: Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM, Canon 45mm f/2.8 TS-E
Slider/Dolly: n.d.
Other info: n.d.
Credits
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