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Old Posted Dec 17, 2013, 8:14 PM
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A Day in Denver: A Time-Lapse Project

Over the past 14 months I have been working on a time-lapse project with Denver as the subject. I planned out 37 different angles around Denver and shot short time-lapses at each place. I chose a 3 minute song for the project and compiled each time-lapse sequence to go along with it. 9,186 photos were taken and 255GB of data was processed to make this 3 minute video.

I never expected to do a full project like this so I just used a basic tripod, basic intervalometer, and weighed down my camera with my bag and an 8 pound workout weight (yes it worked fantastic!).. Some of the higher up shots I did without a tripod and just hung the camera off the ledge tying off the strap to something. Those shots were very nervewracking, needless to say.

When it came down to processing, I had to experiment around to get a good system down. It came down to this:

Shoot in RAW -> Make adjustments in Adobe Camera RAW -> Batch RAW to JPEG in Photoshop -> Import JPEG's in Sony Vegas @ 24 frames per second -> Crop to 16:9 / add digital movement if needed -> Export sequence to main project timeline -> Cut sequence / adjust speed if needed -> Render final video..

Overall, it took roughly 1 hour of my time (including shooting, processing, and editing) for 1 second of the final video. It was a lot of work but I'm very glad to have it complete!

Without further ado, here is the video and below are the stills that best represent each sequence!



These are actual frames from the time-lapse project:


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr


A Day in Denver - Timelapse Project Stills by Ryan Dravitz, on Flickr

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed 'A Day in Denver'!
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Last edited by RyanD; Dec 17, 2013 at 8:41 PM.
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