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Lesson Info
2. Coffee Q&A with Alex
Lessons
M0 - Introduction
1An Introduction from Alex
01:25 2Coffee Q&A with Alex
09:26 3Introduction to the Workshop
01:51M1 - Timelapse Basics
4What is Timelapse
04:48 5Camera Gear
06:05 6Timelapse Gear
06:49Support Gear
03:14 8Field Essentials
03:46 9Key Takeaways
01:01M2 - Shooting
10Motion Timelapse
11:11 11In the Field: Manual Exposure Ramping
06:31 12In the Field: Shooting Waterfalls with Motion
07:55 13Astro-Timelapse
08:47 14In the Field: Shooting Moonrise
09:07 15How To Do A Lens Twist
03:17 16Day-to-Night Timelapse
06:42 17Day-to-Night at Tunnel View
05:01M3 - Editing
18Import Structure
10:37 19Basic Timelapse Editing
21:40 20Advanced Timelapse Editing
19:58 21Outro to Editing
00:56M4 - Developing and Planning a Project
22Seeing Life In Timelapse
03:57 23Finding Purpose In Your Timelapse
01:43 24Mood Boards & Shot Lists
08:39 25Production Schedule
02:55M5 - Outro
26Q&A with Alex
20:14Lesson Info
Coffee Q&A with Alex
(gentle music) (laughing) Nicely done. It's a good grinder, Colin! Hey. What are you doing in Yosemite, nah. What's up? Just found randomly Colin here in this parking lot. How did you guys find me? (laughing) Strange things happen here in Yosemite. Right? Have a seat. I see people here I recognize all the time. All right. What do we have here? Let's see. Under a shadow of a big tree. Right here, we've got some water that's on- Do you have the filters? On the pot. Yeah, I got the filters. You got some filters. We're doing the inverted method. Are you much of an inverted person or more of a non-inverted person? For the Aeropress? With the Aeropress? Yeah. I'm not really sure there's multiple ways of using the Aeropress. Yeah, you use it like this usually. Well, I don't think that's gonna work. I don't think that's gonna work. Cool. Is that a trick, that's definitely a trick question. Yeah. Well it's just the way I use it, it's called ...
the inverted method. Huh. But most people would disagree. What is going on here? Some ancestral magic. I mean, that's gonna be a strong one. (laughing) Tell me about the ways of coffee. Yeah, oh man. We could talk about this for hours. (Colin laughing) Well, a cortado is this 50% espresso, 50% milk. Yeah, it's tasty. Yeah, it's kind of this tall little tumbler glass. Oh, look what we got here. Oh, we already boiling? Yeah. It's quick. You know, we need something to stir, Colin. Oh, yes. Anything come to mind? Forgot our stirring device somewhere. Let me see if we got something back here. We can use a pine needle, but it's not gonna be that great. I found a really good one. This is probably the best one that you're gonna find. Okay, whew, man. Aw. So this is a great thing to do while you're rolling a time lapse. That's a good tip right there. Yeah. We haven't even started. There's already a good tip. You know, this is actually a first for me. Get busy, get busy. Oh really? Yeah, never brewed a coffee while making a time lapse. So, Colin, tell me about Project Yosemite. Oh. I think by now everybody knows what you've done, probably showed it before. But, tell me about Project Yosemite. Project Yosemite, well, it's a time lapse project. That's what we're here for. We're here for time lapse and it's something I did a while ago. It's just- Thank you. It started off with wanting to learn how to make time lapses. And actually, I came to Yosemite by myself and recorded video and just sped it up, but that- Oh, just video straight up? I didn't realize I wasn't making time lapse, I thought that's how you make time lapse. So I had to learn from other people. What year was that? (sighing) That was back in 2011. So, seven years- Seven years ago. Seven years ago then. So time lapse, my timeline is about seven years of learning time lapse. And I'm totally not a pro, I'm still learning. I'm still a student. That's the spirit. You know, we're all students. You're giving all of us, including me, which I don't know much about time lapse, a shortcut from seven years. Yeah, yeah. Shortened down in like two hours of workshop. I'm pretty excited about that. That's what I feel like it is for me to like, just package all of that information. It's so satisfying to, like, be able to transfer that knowledge and share that with people because I had to dig through so many websites, watch so many videos- Oh yeah, especially back then- Meet and talk to so many people and, yeah. And spend a lot of money on gas, going places to shoot time lapse. So, it's nice to to find shortcuts and information where you can. This is the ultimate shortcut. (laughing) Yeah, yeah. So, on Project Yosemite, you just wanted to learn, to teach yourself how to make time lapse? Yeah, yeah. How long did the project take? Well, I made two videos and so the whole project was about three or four years of work. I'd say three years of work. That's good. And not continuous, but you know, just spread out over that period of time, working off and on, going out to Yosemite, shooting, working at home, editing time lapses. But did you have that project in mind at the end? It's like, I'm making this time lapse about Yosemite, or it kinda came by accident as you were doing it? It's interesting because I was originally planning to do it by myself. Okay. I didn't think- That's true, there's two people, yeah. Yeah. What's the other guy's name again? Sheldon, Sheldon Neill. Shout out to Sheldon. (laughing) Yeah, I have some important things to say about Sheldon because it has a lot to do with why I was able to make that project. Oh. And Sheldon and I were both learning. We were learning how to use motion time lapse and learning how to do all sorts of new things that we hadn't done before. And neither of us were really sure what we wanted to do, but we knew we wanted to do something and we both had plans to do some time lapse and do it from a dramatic vantage point, which would be at the top of, like, Mount Whitney or any of the mountains that are in this Sierra Nevada here, that offer like a pretty amazing vantage point. How's it going? How's the coffee? It's probably- Is it good? It's probably the best I've ever had out of this. Oh, come on. So yeah, the project was because I had a feeling that, after looking up how to shoot time lapse and how to do time lapse, all the examples showed locations that seemed to be places I'd already seen, and I felt like I just wanted to bring it to somewhere new. I wanted to see what it looked like in different places that you'd never see time lapses from. Okay. And I'd done some hiking, I hadn't really been doing much backpacking, but climbing was a big thing for me at the time. And so, with climbing, I was always able to see all these beautiful views from higher up in Yosemite, and I wanted to bring a camera up to that point of view- That got you inspired. Yeah, and just like, give someone the perspective of just being on a wall or up on top of a mountain for a period of time and, you know, not have to sit there and do that themselves. And it- That's cool, so the idea was to share your experience pretty much. Yeah. I mean, that's what we all do, at the end of the day, we just wanna share what we see and how we see the world. Yeah, I just thought it- So it started with climbing. It started with climbing. I just felt it was so amazing, it was like so important to me, And because it was important, I felt like I wanted to give that feeling to other people. Okay. And that was in the form of time lapse and photography. In the form of time, okay, beautiful. Okay, well, really useful stuff. Like, all you've said has actually created more questions. (gentle music) So, I get this sign from RJ. Did you introduce yourself RJ, by the way? I haven't introduced myself yet. It's so fucking dark. (laughing) We'll do it tomorrow. But yeah, I'm getting signs from RJ that it's getting dark, so we'll continue this in the studio. So, our last, I mean the beginning of our Q and A got cut short, so now we're back at the house. It's snowing outside and it's not much power. (laughing) Lost the lights, running on battery power, but anyways, (laughing) it's rough. Yeah, it's getting cold. (laughing) Freezing. But, I wanna continue some questions on the Project Yosemite. All right. So actually, I just had one more to ask you and it's, what would you tell to the seven years ago Colin, the one before he started Project Yosemite, what would you tell him now? Well, I think that the thing that made the project for me the most enjoyable was getting the other people involved in it, bringing my friend Sheldon into it and working with him on it and just having the energy between us and I did go out by myself many times to shoot time lapse, and that was a good experience to have by myself. But also sometimes I got lonely and I wish I had other people with me. So I think that- So, tell him, bring a pal? Bring a pal. That's pretty good. Buddy system. I think that's a good thing to think about and how you can plan these projects and trips with other creatives or other people who want to experience these places with you, because a lot of times I'd be at the top of a summit, and I'd be like, oh my gosh, this is so beautiful. I just want to share it with someone. I want to like tell my parents about it. Or, you know, it's just hard to like go home and explain these things to people, rather than share it with someone. So, it felt like a missed opportunity to like go through this whole project and shoot time lapse, by myself for a lot of points, because- So you tell that Colin, get a partner from the get-go? Yeah. Let's do this together. That's beautiful, yeah. Yeah, get a partner. Well, yeah, it's- If you don't already have a partner, get a partner. Yeah, yeah, get a partner. Sheldon was a great partner. Okay, Sheldon. Well, it's like "Into the Wild", right? That movie, happiness is only real when shared, I think that this really echoes it. So, for your time lapse, when you're up there, it just makes life more beautiful and also more entertaining, I guess, than just sitting all night by yourself, right? Totally. It's wise words. I'm gonna go make some coffee (laughing) and I think that's it, I think you should just take it over from here. There's a huge workshop waiting for you guys. Yeah, there's a lot to go over. No, for sure. I'm gonna un-duct-tape my microphone (gentle music) and just leave you at it. Okay. You got this, man. Thank you.
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Ratings and Reviews
Ondrej Dvorak
I have seen tons of timelapses, but there is no other timelapse film that touches my soul as much as Project Yosemite 1 I never forget the moment when I saw Project Yosemite for the first time! That moment I knew that that’s what I wanna DO! Colin is the reason that I bought my first DSLR! Thank You Alex for getting together with my hero and make this awesome idea happen!
Bryce Lord
Clear and concise workshop to understand the process of Time-lapse photography Being new to this aspect of photography, I found this workshop informative and directional. If I were to give a critique, it would be regarding equipment choice for the entry level bridging to pro-level for the introductory student. Otherwise, it lays a nice foundation to build from.
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