hey friends. i released a new soundtrack as digital download on bandcamp. i composed the music for our last docu shortfilm ” BERGWACHT – Die Retter “. the music is also available for licensing for commercial and non-commercial projects. you can license the songs direct over the download page.

BERGWACHT – Die Retter ( Soundtrack )

BERGWACHT – Die Retter ( Trailer ) from NOVALAPSE Timelapse Recordings on Vimeo.

Tutorial: Creating Startrails in After Effects from NOVALAPSE Timelapse Recordings on Vimeo.

NOVALAPSE – Night Skies from NOVALAPSE Timelapse Recording on Vimeo.

hey folks,

today i was out on todays afternoon testshooting a Infra Red timelapse.

Shot with:

Canon EOS 7D
Sigma 30mm f/1.4
850nm IR-Filter

Camera Settings:

Aperture: 1.4
Shutter: 13 sec.
ISO: 320
WB: 5600k

here are 3 images showing a straight out of the camera picture, a pre adjusted picture from camera raw and a final color mixed image.

and here is the short timelapse clip.

if you don’t want to wait for new photos you can follow my account on Google+
but for now – watch and enjoy some photos :)

Sunrise Dresden Neustadt 09-03-2012

Jupiter & Venus Nightsky 09-03-2012

Yenidze in Dresden

Jupiter & Venus Nightsky 15-03-2012

Hoher Stein in Dresden

Hoher Stein B&W in Dresden

Moon Venus Jupiter

Bismarckturm Radebeul

Moon Venus Jupiter 26-03-2012

shot with:

Canon EOS 7D
Tokina 10-17mm
Kessler Crane Turntable + Oracle Controller

misted lens plays with the lights from Maik Thomas on Vimeo.

shot with:
Canon EOS 7D
Tokina 11-16mm
Tokina 10-17mm
Coleman Lantern for some Fill Light

Edited with:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Bridge + Camera Raw

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i´m not sure what these old buildings were exactly but i guess they are old warehouses. so if anyone know what those buildings were in the past let me know :-)

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over a week ago i was out shooting some timelapses in 3 freezing cold nights with upto -20° in dresden.

shot with:
Canon EOS 7D
Tokina 11-16mm
Sigma 30mm
Tokina 10-17mm
Kessler Crane Cineslider + Oracle Controler
Manfrotto Magic Arm
Coleman Lantern for some fill lights
Warm Clothings

edited with:
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5
Adobe After Effects CS5.5
Adobe Bridge + Camera RAW

Music:
From Another World 3 by Chris Blackwell

requests for licensing footage up to digital cinema 4K: footage@t-recs.org

shot with:
Canon EOS 7D
Tokina 11-16mm + 2 stacked ND8 Filters
Sigma 30mm

Edited with:
SNS-HDR Pro
Photoshop CS5.1

greets maik

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this blog is not an indepth tutorial but it will show you a first attempt using the new warp stabilizer that comes out with the new version of after effects CS5.5. i also show you that the warp stabilizer will save you so much of your time. in the video below you see a stop motion / timelapse sequence we´ve shot in winter last year. my thoughts to shoot this shot were how good can i stabilize a handheld stop motion sequence with after effects and mocha.

at first – this first try without the warp stabilizer cost me 2 hole days for the stabilizing process.

first i´ve tried it with mocha. but mocha was NOT able to handle this extreme shaky footage. after this i jumped over to after effects where i´ve spend the most of the time for a frame by frame prestabilization by hand so that mocha could handle it. after this prestabilization i´ve renderd it out as a new jpeg sequence and imported it back into mocha for the “second pass” tracking. this time mocha made a good job. i´ve copied the tracking data back to after effects and the shot was stablized. not perfect stable but ways better as the original sequence. the skulpture was smooth but the background was bad and shaky cause of the large perspective changes that cames from the handheld shoot. at this time there was no way to fixed that.

now the jump to the new AWESOME warp stabilizer.

at the time i´ve first heard about the new plugin and saw some first previews on this – my first thoughts were … WoW this is the solution for stabilizing stop motion shots ! …
after the tryout version of the adobe cs 5.5 software came out i downloaded it to make some test with the stabilizer. i´ve imported my sequence and applied the warp stabilizer on it. the first instance of the stablilizer was to stablize only the movement of the position, scale and rotation with a crop but with no rescale to keep the image quallity. i´ve precomposed the shot and resized the comp with the new dimentions of the shot after the crop. on this i applied a new warp stabilizer and this time i´ve stabilized the perspective also with crop but no rescale. again precomposing and rescaling the comp to the new dimensions. then i applied a third warp stabilizer on this new comp and did it again. this time with the subspace stabilization. and because the subspace stabilisation doing the job by warping and repositioning the frame and pixels, at this time the background was also stablized as much as it could and the overall look was much smoother as on the stabilizations without the new warp stabilizer. and now hold on …. it only takes me under 2 HOUR´s of my lifetime to track and stabilize this shot.

Adobe CS5.5 Warp Stabilizer stop motion Example from Maik Thomas on Vimeo.

yep – i´m realy impressed about what you can do with this awesome new plugin.

if you have any questions. use the comment field below or write me an email and i will answer as soon i can.