Night shot of Hong-Kong time lapse

Johnboy2978 · Feb 17, 2009

A buddy forwarded this to me earlier. I found it kinda neat. Put your cursor at the top of the image and slowly move it to the bottom.

http://61226.com/share/hk.swf

Garbz · Feb 18, 2009

Now that's pretty neat.

LaFoto · Feb 18, 2009

Yes. Wow. That is interesting to look at!

You have to stop the cursor on your way down to get the pic of that specific minute. What a cool concept.

pm63 · Feb 18, 2009

That's amazing, and so incredibly useful to aspiring landscape photographers who want to gain an understanding of how the light changes can have an enormous effect on the mood of the image. It's amazing how many transformations the scene goes through as the sun goes down. Aside from being cool, this is a genuine learning tool for landscapers, I'll be reccomending it from now on.

Just look at how rapidly the light changes between about 6:57 and 7:03!

prodigy2k7 · Feb 18, 2009

Am I the only one that sees this is fake?
Its 2 pictures, one gets darker and fades into the second one, notice the ripples and boats in the water dont move AT ALL but then magically disappear when the first picture is gone...

Im talking about the clock for instance...

Garbz · Feb 18, 2009

Not really, but it's cool nonetheless. Actually I'd be rather worried at the size of that flash file if it did work properly.
Actually the big stuffup is that at 7:16 the buildings don't align.

bjorkfiend · Feb 18, 2009

Alleh Lindquist · Feb 19, 2009

Especially considering it is fake I think it kind of sucks photographically speaking. If it was real it might be cool from a flash design perspective but it's still a boring photo and really a fairly uninteresting concept.

AlexColeman · Feb 20, 2009

FAKE! Anyhow, it would be interesting to actually do it.

rubbertree · Feb 23, 2009

of course it is fake, but it's fun anyway!

DemonAstroth · Feb 23, 2009

You can see something similar, but REAL, at:

THE VIEW FROM LHS

click on yesterday's time lapse.

I really miss Berkeley.

Well, I guess yesterday's movie is pretty crummy, as it was raining just about all day. They do have a section in the archive with some pretty cool days.