This first real panoramic time-lapse shot in 10K looks really stunning

“Pano LA” is Joe Capra’s most ambitious, challenging, demanding, and rewarding project he has worked on to date, shot over a period of 2 years entirely in true panoramic form using two synced DSLR cameras side by side!

Joe Capra’s time-lapse videos are so amazing that they keep being awarded with Vimeo Staff Picks and of course, Best time-lapse videos at Time Lapse Network.

This one was shot with 2x Canon 5D Mark III on Kessler Crane’s TLS with Second Shooter for motion controlled movements:

Shooting Pano LA has been the most ambitious, challenging, demanding, and rewarding project I have worked on to date. It was shot over a period of two years entirely in true panoramic form using two synced DSLR cameras side by side. The resulting panoramic timelapse footage comes in at a whopping 10K x 4K resolution when stitched. I did not shoot this film to achieve the extreme resolution. I shot it for the panoramic look, especially the compressed look you get when using long lenses.
Shooting panoramic timelapse was something I had always wanted to do. I love panoramic images and wanted to bring that look to timelapse, and I wanted to do it proper, not by faking it by just cropping the top and bottom of regular timelapse shots. I gave it a try many years ago but was never able to get the images from the two cameras to sync properly and get the images to stitched together correctly.
A couple years ago I was contacted by a client wanting some panoramic timelapse shots of LA. I told them I had tried it in the past and it did not work out to well, but that I am willing to give it another try. So I purchased some new gear and set out to my local testing locations in Malibu. The initial shots were successful so I continued shooting / testing for the next couple weeks. At that point I had acquired a few good test shots to show the client and sent them over to them. Long story short I never heard back from them about the project, but I kept shooting anyways. If it was not for that failed job/project I probably would have never got around to giving panoramic timelapse another try.
Music: “Death in a garden” by Lowercase Noises