Lapses in Light
Lapses in Light is film born out of a desire to challenge myself to create moving image on par with the fantastic work from the likes of Ron Fricke. I wanted to push every aspect of my knowledge, and technical artistry, expanding the boundaries of what can be achieved on a minimal budget, using off the shelf hardware.
I have always had a fascination with the pace of man, and nature. The balance of subtleness and out right chaos. Time-lapse opens a perspective we can only see snippets of in our day to day lives, yet we all experience and can relate to the images portrayed. They are timeless, and appeal to almost everybody, especially me.
The shots in this video were made with my first prototype automated pan and tilt head, and shutter release control system. I was really excited by my initial efforts, and i edited them together for a college project. But they are not perfect, in-fact they are far from perfect, there are many inconstancies, jumps, and speed changes. Lapses in Light represents my orignal efforts from over 2 years ago, my technology and ability has greatly improved, so stay tuned.
This is a genuine feast for the eyes! Excellent! Man, I’d love to get my hands on some of this gear for a while!!
As a visual artist, I can imagine this technique being interspersed with ultra slow motion shots in a piece done strictly for art’s sake, rather than it necessarilly being intended for a
“commercial” application.
Watching this, it occurred to me that we really do inhabit an enchanted world. We’re just not usually perceiving it at the proper bit-rate, as it were - heh!
Wellness and good fortune!
- Steve
Comment by Steven D. Jager — March 8, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
Wow
you gave me this site in the pub
it makes me glad that the internet exists… you are touched and have an eye for beauty in all its forms
Thank You
Peter
Comment by Pete Soanes — March 18, 2007 @ 12:05 am
Just wish I could see it…
Comment by Tony — March 22, 2007 @ 3:54 pm
“Just wish I could see it…”
Sorry if you don’t have QuickTime, I’m working on putting up WMV versions and properly testing the site for the PC folks.
Comment by admin — March 23, 2007 @ 2:34 pm
jesus f’ing christ can’t you put up a download link?
Comment by asdf — April 18, 2007 @ 8:33 pm
“jesus f’ing christ can’t you put up a download link?”
why should i make it easier for people to steal my work. Already this video has been “borrowed” on countless other sites, who are profting through advertising from mine and others hard work. my experiance this year is that the internet is full of porn, spammers, and theives.
you can always watch it here, if you want to watch it anywhere on your machine then give us a donation and you can have the full hd version to watch at your pleasure
Comment by admin — April 21, 2007 @ 2:23 pm
Presumably you’ll be paying Mylo some royalties then?
Comment by Bob — April 24, 2007 @ 3:54 pm
Hey i need your help, im doing a short film, (university’s homework) and i need some of your timelapse images, just few seconds… how can i get those images? i live in venezuela plz help!
Comment by elena — April 30, 2007 @ 2:34 pm
Great video! Where did you film all that?
Comment by David Salisbury — May 4, 2007 @ 5:17 pm
@ bob, seeing as i make no money from the video there are no royalties to be paid. I have actually tried to get mylo to have look, cause i think the video and music work so well together. so far no word from his lawyers
@ david, mostly around plymouth and dartmoor in the uk, and the last shot is near gatwick airport.
@ elena there is a bunch of my shots available on istockphoto at http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&userID=388530 all available nice and cheap, if you want any shots not on their site contact me directly and we can work something out
Comment by admin — May 4, 2007 @ 5:50 pm
Plymouth FTW!
that is really beautiful, the music that accompanies it is great.
Comment by Andrew — May 4, 2007 @ 6:31 pm
Great idea, very well carried out. Nice work!
Comment by Uli — May 4, 2007 @ 8:54 pm
that’s ace
Comment by rob — May 4, 2007 @ 10:09 pm
Erm..it appears to be broken. I’m running MacOS X so I don’t usually have any problems with Quicktime files. Infact this is the first site in about 2 years where the video has failed to play. The image you’re supposed to click doesn’t even load!
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Fantastic images and video techniques. The music works well. Keep the great work coming Ollie…. regards from downunda, David
Comment by David — May 5, 2007 @ 3:01 am
You are a super-talent! May you produce for many years!
Comment by Cliff — May 5, 2007 @ 5:39 am
Its soo hypnotic - brilliant….. especially like the last sequence with the planes like ‘fire flies’ in the sky, i could watch that all day….
Comment by jane — May 5, 2007 @ 10:01 am
Lovely bit of work, particularly the ferris wheel and gatwick sections. A great eye for composition and good sense of timing. Good luck in whetever you choose to do.
Ali
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nice work - good stuff. Damn right about NOT putting a download link… When I get the “AppleTV” - will be making a donation to get the HD version…
Comment by Christian — May 5, 2007 @ 1:46 pm
Any ideas of where the locations are?
Comment by Steve — May 5, 2007 @ 3:03 pm
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Comment by Nick — May 7, 2007 @ 3:17 am
thats truly gifted work
Comment by Sandi — May 7, 2007 @ 6:25 am
Thanks a lot Ollie, that was beautiful and has made my sunday lunchtime. Cheers.
Comment by Steve — May 7, 2007 @ 12:56 pm
That is very nice work!
You (Ollie) & others on this site might also be interested in the visuals that accompany my band Cassette’s song ‘The Smartest Bomb’, as it also features time lapse photography - with the added bonus of being an early 80’s flashback.
I must confess it is unashamedly taken from Godrey Reggio’s classic of the genre ‘Koyaanisqatsi’, but definitely shows how well this sort of material works with the right music.
Ollie - if you wanted to either use our stuff to accompany your visuals or would be interested in allowing us to use your footage to project at our gigs - please get in touch!! Actually I might just send you an email….
Comment by Oli F — May 8, 2007 @ 9:55 am
wow. thats a lovely video there
Comment by chris — May 8, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
Beautiful work! Would make an awesome screensaver….!
Comment by Mark Haines — May 8, 2007 @ 8:54 pm
hi! great video!
can you tell me the name of that song?!
amazing!
Comment by doni — May 9, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
Dude, well done, and very cool music too….
well done, i applaud you with that piece of work.
Keep it up
Comment by Jack — May 9, 2007 @ 8:40 pm
Truly amazing!
Comment by Jon Haywood — May 10, 2007 @ 7:36 am
my english is not that good, but i’d like to say:
awesome! great work! fantastic!
greets from germany s.b.
Comment by sebastian b. — May 10, 2007 @ 2:19 pm
Esta muy padre… pero quizas hubiera sido bueno anotar que lugares son, bye
Comment by Irwing — May 10, 2007 @ 2:49 pm
Pretty amazing stuff right here. Very nice work.
Comment by Seth — May 12, 2007 @ 2:07 pm
Had you have seen Koyanitquatsi?
it’s a piece of a marster piece!
i like it so much!
thanks to publish and shared with us!!!
i really love ti!
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How did you do the camera rotating so smoothly?
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beautiful work ollie!!!!!
“you can always watch it here, if you want to watch it anywhere on your machine then give us a donation and you can have the full hd version to watch at your pleasure”
can i please do this? how much woudl be appropriate as a donation?
i would to see it in HD & have a copy myself….
please let me know
Comment by tim — June 4, 2007 @ 1:43 am
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An astounding flow of visual excellence! My only gripe is that I wish it were longer :). Brilliant piece of work there mate. All the best .
Comment by Pete — June 21, 2007 @ 1:11 pm
hi
i got a question
how did you film the panning which is very smooth but the number of frames is too less..
Comment by zameer — September 11, 2007 @ 2:21 pm
Nice sample of your work. I particularly like the ferris wheel… it looks like a ‘wheel of fortune’.
Since you sell small pieces of work, I suggest you look into revostock.com, they give a good percentage to the artists and your work would be superstar there.
Glenn
Comment by Glenn — November 28, 2007 @ 7:07 pm
You’re a genius.
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Very very impressed ! an excellent bit of work
Well done
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Wow, such a good choice of compositions, this work is amazing, i’d really love to know how!
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How long did it take?
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Comment by stephanazs — September 20, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Hi Oliie
Nice work and shows a level of dedication found in few others. I do a lot of timelapse with motion control and love the whole process. Good luck commercially and don’t let anybody use your stuff for free. I too have had showreel material ripped off and it makes me pretty mad.
Best wishes
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