Melancholia from Enrique Pacheco on Vimeo.
Because I was excited that Lauren and I taught ourselves to do time-lapse this week I thought I’d look for a video about it. While we have in no way mastered it like this filmmaker has, we at least got the basics. This film shows some really beautiful shots that were obviously very well thought out. According to the filmmaker they had to be since he was shooting in infrared, and in Iceland no less. To be honest, I wasn’t sure what infrared is exactly so I looked it up. According to Wikipedia infrared light is electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light. In photography the film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. I’m still struggling with understanding this, but from what I can see it takes superbly crisp, detailed images.
One technique from this that I would like to learn is how to set up a time-lapse moving shot. This video is full of them. To me the movement adds to the cinematic look of time-lapse. While I would never want to shoot an entire film of only time-lapse, I think its effective in small doses.