Incredible Time Lapse Video of Paris – Created with over 30,000 Images
Huffington Post UK have picked up the most incredible time lapse video of Paris created by Mayeul Akpovi. He took over 30,000 images to create this video and the detail is totally outstanding. This video would make a fabulous tourist incentive, that’s if you’re not already very keen to go.
Thanks to Mike Hardaker of 645 PRO fame for pointing out there’s a ‘making of video’ – we have attached that below too.
This is not a mobile photography creation but it’s inspiring nonetheless of course. Here’s a list of the gear Mayeul used to create this video:
Canon 5D Mark III
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 24-70mm f2.8 L USM
Sigma 15mm f2.8 EX DG Fisheye
Samyang 14mm f2.8
Tamron 70-300mm f4-5,6 Di VC USD
Filters: ND2 to ND400
Mayeul made sure to include all the best of Paris, here’s his location shot list:
– Les Invalides
- Le pont des Invalides
- Eglise Saint-Eustache
- Place de la Bastille
- Funiculaire de Montmartre
- Basilique du Sacré
-Cœur de Montmartre
- Pont de Bir Hakeim
- Trocadéro (Palais de Chaillot, Tour Eiffel)
- La Défense (Esplanade de la Défense)
- Le Louvre (Pyramide du musée du Louvre, L’Arc de Triomphe du Carousel)
- Tour Montparnasse (Paris vu aérienne, Tour Eiffel, etc.)
- Pont des Arts (Vue sur la Seine au couché du soleil)
- Champs de Mars (Feux d’artifices de la Tour Eiffel)
- Les champs Elysées
- L’Arc de Triomphe (Place de l’Etoile)
- Pont de Neuilly (La Défense, Grand Arche de la Défense)
Take a look at the video below to see for yourselves:
Time Lapse Video of Paris
Paris in Motion (Part 1) from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.
The Making of the Paris Time Lapse video
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
2 Comments
Mike Hardaker (Jag.gr)
There’s a short Making Of… that’s worth seeing too: http://mayeul.com/projects/making-paris-in-motion/
Joanne Carter
Thanks Mike, I’ve embedded that video within the post too. It’s amazing work isn’t it?