From The Roof
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 1:28PM As a follow-up to my Day with the Mayor, last week I was invited back to shoot for a couple hours on the roof of the Government building in downtown Indianapolis. My main task was to shoot some time-lapse footage of the city to be possibly used in the documentary.
Here is a single frame from the main time-lapse setup I shot.
Alan Berry, the man behind the creation of the documentary, asked me about possibly doing a tilt-shift miniaturization type shot. Unfortunately I don't have a tilt-shift lens and there was no budget to rent one for this, so I decided to try out CrumplePop's ShrinkRay X plugin for Final Cut Pro X. Below is a before & after video of the filter and it's effect on two of the other setups I shot.
I'd love to hear what you think of the look with and without the plugin. Have a strong preference of one over the other? Let me know by leaving a comment either here on the blog or on my Vimeo page.
I could have easily spent a lot more time up there. We were there during the middle of the day so the light wasn't the prettiest, but we got lucky with the weather as it was an absolutely gorgeous day. We also had limited time, but I made the most of what we had. Hopefully I can get back up there some day or night.
It's been awhile since I've created any desktop/wallpaper images, so I decided to make a 2560 x 1600 image available free to download to use as a desktop image. And a first for me, I also created a version specifically for the new iPad with Retina display, although it will work just fine on older iPads. You can get those over on my Downloads page. Just look for the Downtown Indy file (they're in alphabetical order).
More photos coming soon!
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