You are rarely alone in Taipei. The city is filled to the brink with temples and their worshipers, with hectic business people, shoppers, and aimless tourists. Add to this the tantalizing smells and sounds of the many night markets and the never ending lines of motorcycles and Taipei emerges as a city of boundless opportunities and adventure. Neither are you alone on Elephant mountain, the most famous viewpoint of Taipei, particularly during a beautiful sunset. I joined the dozens of spectators on a warm evening in November. Looking at the city from a bird’s perspective made all of Taipei’s hustle recede into the background. As the last rays of sun pierced the Taipei 101 tower, the city transformed into an almost serene image. I took the photo with my APS-C 16mm F1.4 lens and it is composed out of three images from a captured time laps during this sunset. While this place was very crowded I took the picture series without tripod, but I was able to use the railing of the platform.
Category: Projects – Youtube
Static time lapse – Using 366 photographs to illustrate a time lapse as a single image.
This image of the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyois is based on 366 single exposures from a time laps capture of 1.5 hours.
The main idea behind this image is to illustrate a full 1.5h captured time lapse in one single image. In this example the final image contains 366 single exposures.
Start of sequence
Golden Hour
Blue Hour
End of sequence
To generate the above image the 366 exposures from the beginning of the time lapse (golden hour, left side) to the end of the time lapse (end of blue hour, right side) were averaged.
To calculate a smooth image with these 366 captures an own developed algorithm was used. This algorithm uses the image information of several images to generate a smart rendered result. The direct outcome of this algorithm can be seen here:
Result of the 366 smart averaged images
To generate the final static time lapse image (first picture) the city lights from the last captured image of the time lapse sequence were added. The Rainbow Bridge Time Lapse sequence is one of several time lapse of the YouTube Channel.
Toronto Summer Time Lapse
A time lapse captured of downtown Toronto after one of the first warm days in Toronto 2015.
The day the floating ice sheet left Lake Ontario, Toronto.
Cherry Beach, Sunset in Toronto (Time Lapse).
After 1 1/2 hours of capturing a time lapse, a strong wind started and all the remaining sheets of floating ice moved away from the north side of Lake Ontario.
Sun, Moon, Venus and Moon above Downtown Toronto
A rare planetary alignment of Venus and Mars to the Moon, captured during a sunset time lapse in Downtown Toronto.
Full Moon Hyperlapse – Berlin Cathedral
YouTube Cannel
The YouTube channel is online with a first short clip (Three Toronto sunsets as time lapse).