Eyjafjallajökull Timelapse Video Shot With 5D Mark II

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

Using Canon’s 5D Mark II, a 16-35mm f2.8 lens, and a motorized timelapse motorized dolly loaned to him by MiLapse, photographer/ filmmaker Sean Stiegemeier made use of the day-and-a-half window of decent weather he got while on location to create the above video, shot from pulled-back vantage points around the base of the volcano.

The trip took Stiegemeier from Seattle to Detroit (where he picked up the dolly and got a tutorial on how to use it on the floor of the airport), back to Seattle (flight to Reykjavik canceled), then to New York, Glasgow, the wrong part of Iceland and then, a six-hour bus ride later, to Reykjavik.

Stiegemeier, who says he is “a firm believer in using technology to color correct and create the best looking images,” used HDR (high dynamic range) processing for some of the shots. He says it took four days for his computer to render the video made up of 7000 stills, but he didn’t spend very much time choosing images, color correcting or editing because he didn’t expect many people to see it.

BAS! wins at DOXA

Wendy Champagne's 'BAS! Beyond the Red Light' wins the NFB Colin Low award for most innovative Canadian documentary at Vancouver's DOXA Film Festival!

http://www.doxafestival.ca/doxa-10/festival/films/bas.html

Peekfreak

peekfreak is a collaborative project between industrial designer Wai Lam and experimental photographer Yann Huey in which they explore the possibility of making cameras using everyday objects. The cameras they’ve made so far use things such as discarded bike parts, plastic containers, and 3.5” floppy disks. The cameras are extremely minimalistic, and the sliding metal cover of the floppy disk is used as a simple shutter mechanism to expose the film. Since the cameras are so randomly put together, the resulting photographs have their unique looks depending on construction.

Travesias cover

Made it on the cover of Mexican travel magazine Travesias!
Plus images to accompany Claudia Itzkowich's article on Quebec City and Montreal's gastronomy entitled "Quebec Fusion".

The Georgia Straight's cover

In anticipation of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver, « BAS! Beyond the Red Light » made it to the cover of Vancouver's Georgia Straight, Canada's most important weekly with 697 000 readers!
Read the article here.

Human Traffic

Australian magazine MindFood just published an article this month called "Human Traffic", written by Wendy Champagne and illustrated by my images. The images were shot in Mumbai on the set of Wendy's documentary film "BAS: Beyond the Red Light" and at the Rescue Foundation, a shelter for victims of child trafficking.