Time-lapse Video: Sunrise to Sunset at BU—in Less Than 3 Minutes
Time-lapse Video: Sunrise to Sunset at BU—in Less Than 3 Minutes
Time-lapse Video: Sunrise to Sunset at BU—in Less Than 3 Minutes
Summer is arguably the most beautiful time to be on campus. And the proof can be found in this BU Today video. Using a combination of time-lapse and hyperlapse photography and more than 8,000 photographs (no, that’s not a typographical error)—each framed a foot apart—the labor-intensive project is the work of Bill Politis, a producer and editor with BU Productions.
Just how labor-intensive, you ask? Politis shot more than 13,000 photos over six weeks, from sunrise to sunset, to produce the video. He used a hyperlapse technique, which adds movement to the traditional time-lapse. To pull it off, he had to frame each shot, take the photo, then move the camera about a foot forward and shoot the same scene again until it had been completed. It’s a painstaking process.
And then there was the weather to contend with. Clouds sometimes ruined a perfect sunrise or sunset, requiring Politis to shoot five separate sunrises and seven sunsets. Each one was markedly different. The overall effect, we think you’ll agree, is mesmerizing.
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