Hello there. I am Terry and I am a full-time undergraduate based in Singapore. I take photos, write a blog and design websites.
And no, I'm not a teddy bear.
Scenes from a rooftop by Paul Johannessen
“Scenes from a rooftop” is an amazing time-lapse video made by Paul Johannessen, with photos taken from his office. Paul worked with a Panasonic HVX200, in 1080 using interval recording mode. He then splices out one shot every 4 to 8 seconds, and combined them to a video. He even wrote the music himself – wow!
I'm relatively new to the design world - only to start learning HTML in secondary school and then moving on to (X)HTML and CSS in college. Since then I have been hand-coding my designs using notepad, alongside with the amazing help from Firebug. I embrace photography as a personal persuit during my free time, and I prefer spending the rest of it doing meaningless quizzes on Facebook and destroying the world (in Rampage World Tour, that is).
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Yea. You probably know what the Konami code is before getting to this page. So now what? Here is a randomised YouTube video on my favourites list... which includes Rickroll, if you're luck enough to get it.
You are currently watching You have been rickrolled!. Loving it? You can even watch the video in its full screen glory :)
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That video is awesome! I love the effect of the water, it looks incredible.
Great find!
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I love it too – especially the part where the cars on the highways were travelling in high speed. Awesomeness :)
The video is awesome!
I always wanted to learn how to edit photos into that kind of effect.
:)
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The effect you’re talking about can be achieved easily with the help of photoshop. Of course, genuine ones can only be created using special tilt-shift lenses, which will definitely punch a gigantic big hole in your wallet.
Usually how I achieve the tilt-shift effect is to copy the background layer ([Ctrl] + [J]), and then blurring the new layer. After that, apply a layer mask and paint away areas that you want to appear clearly in focus (for that, paint black on areas of the layer mask to mask/hide the blurred layer). For a more realistic effect, you can draw a black-white gradient instead of painting using a brush.
OMG! I love the time-lapse videos you share. This one is soo cool. I love how it all seems like small toys. Even the people! haha, I love it.
And he made his own music, too? Very awesome guy, indeed. It sounds like something you’d hear in final fantasy or something, hehe.
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Thanks for the compliments, Trina! Yeap, one appealing aspect of tilt-shot time-lapse photography/videography is that everything appears to be miniature models. How adorable!
I’m equally amazed that he wrote his own music ;) techno and hip, fits the overall feel of his video as well.