With the help of a Canon 5D MKII, two Canon 7D‘s, a 16-35mm 2.8L lens, and the 24mm TS lens – Rochester, New York based photographer, Josh Owens edited collectively a 4 minute time lapse of New York City. Owens was capable to safe prime vantage factors at 12 hotels and numerous other Manhattan places to create the film (for these of you reading through this by e-mail, you can see the video here).
He utilized the Dynamic Perception dolly rig, opting to upgrade from the regular MX2 intervalometer to The Tiny Bramper to handle exposures. Owens speaks highly of The Little Bramper’s capacity to make smooth exposure transitions when shooting during each day and evening.
“This is a gadget that slowly ramps the shutter speed up or down above time even though the camera is in bulb mode.” Owens utilized the six-foot rail that comes with the dolly in addition to a 9-foot rail, which Owens says “was initially twelve-feet but, I had to trim it in order to match it into cabs/elevators etc.”

Manhattan Time-lapse
Only a quick section of the footage was captured on the 7D, with more than 95% of the time lapse film carried out on the Canon 5D MKII. Owens says he was ready to attain the motion blur for the duration of daylight hours, “using Neutral Density filters which limit the amount of light that hits the sensor permitting you to use longer shutter speeds.” All of the editing was done in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Affter Effects, taking above two hours to render the footage at 1080.
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