time : about

The Timelapse series is a new direction for Chaos Stock and a very cool addition to our ground-breaking stock imagery. Our first volume, San Francisco Timelapse, provides exquisite footage of city scenes. The second volume, Maui Timelapse, showcases the famous natural landscape over sunrises and sunsets. The third volume, DC Timelapse, has a new take on our patriotic city.

Each scene captures roughly a two-hour sunset period into a 30-second clip. The footage comes in three resolutions: High Definition, NTSC Standard, and PAL Standard. Our inspiration? We've been residents of this city for over eight years and never fail to be stunned by its beauty.

Image #13. Golden Gate Bridge [play]

Time-lapse is the art of showing a long period of time in a few moments.
Whether it's the sun setting or a flower opening, time-lapse video shows an
event that takes a few hours or days (or even months sometimes), and
condenses it into something that can be viewed in a few seconds or minutes.

This can be done by filming for several hours using a traditional film/video
camera. It can also be accomplished with a still camera automatically ticking off a shot every few seconds or minutes over a period of hours or days.

In the case of the film/video camera, the original footage is sped up so the
original event plays back faster. With a still camera, the individual frames
are strung together to create 24/30 frame per second film/video.

We shoot all of our footage with a high resolution still camera. Because the
resolution is so high, we can often produce two slightly different shots out
of the same original image. One shot is a bit wider view. The other is a close up with much of the original image cropped out.

While the source imagery is the same, the cropping process produces a different emphasis and footage appropriate for different tasks. The original image is never scaled up beyond its original resolution. Every piecce of footage is the high quality imagery that came out of our camera, just cropped and framed differently.