Jarbas Agnelli gets around—and he brings his Canon 20D and a tripod with him. Time-lapse photography is a hobby for Jarbas, who travels regularly for business from his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to New York and Brazil. He created his winning entry, “Lightwaves,” using more than 10,000 still shots from a variety of locations (including Miami, Hawaii, and São Paulo, Brazil). Check out his winning time-lapse movie.
Judging for this challenge was tough, and we have two standout honorable mentions: John Purcell’s submission featuring a soothing skyscape was created entirely using the iSight camera on his MacBook Pro. And Thomas Douglas brought us a slice of middle America with three scenes from a Midwestern summer’s day. We wish we had three Pentax K10Ds to give away—we hope the runners-up won’t be too disappointed with their Mac|Life T-shirts.
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rabbit
November 10, 2007 at 9:49am
Absolutely wonderful! i could stare at this time lapse video for hours if it lasted that long. Stunning work!
Anonymous
September 18, 2007 at 10:41am
This could have been in Requiem for a Dream.
Very awesome.
Sue Knopf
September 09, 2007 at 7:25pm
Where can we see the runner up time lapse entries?
mike
September 08, 2007 at 12:25am
f'n brilliant. squarepusher, chris cunningham & aphex twin would be proud.
Tom D.
September 07, 2007 at 5:40pm
I believe Jarbas created the music and effects himself. That would make sense to me, it would make it a lot easier to get the timing down just right.
DG
September 07, 2007 at 6:56am
WOW ! Great job!
How did you make the soundtrack sync so perfectly with the visuals?
For example, the airplane's headlights right in time with the sounds???- DG
Jarbas Agnelli
October 23, 2007 at 7:57pm
All of the time lapses were done first. I had no control over the timing of action (airplanes, cars etc). Later, I created several instruments in Logic, using ESX24, made entirely of noises samples, some very short, other long sound drones that I made in NI Reaktor and recorded. With a different sound mapped to each key of my controller, I started messing around, experimenting, and recorded several passes of noises, looking at the Quicktime movie playing. Some timing adjusts later, I had this strange music, that sounds like coming from the movements of the lights.
It sounds complicated, but it's not.
Best
Jarbas
Dave
September 02, 2007 at 7:19am
Hello,
The videos are not playable on the iPhone and this comments page repeatedly crashes Safari on the iPhone.
