Road Trip – A video from 8000 stills and the Sony RX1
by Ofer Rozenman
I’m a frequent reader of your blog and really like the content you post. Last year you shared a video of mine and recently I’ve finished working on a new stop motion road trip video which I thought you might also like:
On September `14 my wife and I traveled with our friends to eastern Europe. As designated shooter I’ve tried capturing the road trip with this stop motion video made of 200GB and 8000 stills. Enjoy! Sony RX1 for the stills!
Route: Sarajevo (Bosnia) – Mostar (Bosnia) – Dubrovnik (Croatia) – Lokrum (Croatia) – Cavtat (Croatia) – Prcanj (Montenegro) – Split (Croatia) – Sibenik (Croatia) – Baska (Croatia) – Postojna (Slovenia) – Venice (Italy) – Plitvice lakes (Croatia) – Zagreb (Croatia)
Equipment: Sony RX1.
Music: “Big Jet Plane (Radio Edit)” by Angus and Julia Stone
As themselves: Sanda Krsho, Milen Debensason, Liran Hadaya
Everything else: Ofer Rozenman
Just Wow!
Truly beautiful video, great work. Hope you had a good time in my homeland. Haven’t been there in a while and it brought a smile to my face. Thank you.
Wow! This is just utterly brilliant work executed masterfully. It has my creative wheels spinning.
I too will jump on the bandwagon that would love to see a behind the scenes tutorial.
One question for you: It looks as if many shots are HDR. Did you actually shoot HDR images for some of this or did you just get that dynamic range out of single shots in post?
Amazing!
Good God, that nearly killed me. BRILLIANT !!!
You will explain us all the process of post-creation next time ?
Yes, I wanted to do a tutorial already but my day job doesn’t let me, hope I’ll get to it soon
I’ll join the choir and say that this truly is amazing work!
I just have one how-to question though, you said it took roughly 8000 still to make the video. What was your frame rate, i.e. how many stills did you use for every second of movie? I’m asking because I’m curious of how many stills to shoot for a scene to get that “twitchy” feeling you got in the video.
Thanks,
I shot 8000 stills but used around 2500 of them.
The final result is at 12fps, for a 3 seconds shot you’ll need ~40 stills
Amazing!!
I like your video very much. But was’nt it a hard work to take so many stills and put them together to this video?
Could you ever enjoy your holidays, it looks so, but it’s hard to believe. Anyway, again it is an exciting way to create a holiday memory.
congratulation.
Ingo
Loved this. Really excellent capture technique and a beautifully crafted final result. Bravo man, bravo.
Soooooo good, I’m sharing this
Really great stuff!
Lots of fun to watch… very creative!!
just fantastic! have never seen a video like this before so creative and also so….beautiful 🙂
I will echo what has already been said – absolutely incredible! This is an amazing piece of work from a gifted artist. As I watched, I kept thinking, I cannot believe what I am seeing – the vision, the skill, and the effort required to pull it all together. Wow.
Bravo!
Loved it.
Nice – just joining as I would love to see a write-up on how it was done. Not that I want to do it myself, just would like to know the process as I feel I could appreciate it even more.
Will do that!
Not sure if this was already addressed, was curious which editing app was used for this amazing stop motion video? I’m an educator and we’re in the process of introducing stop motion as a project in our Great Neck Public Schools Mac based computer lab here on Long Island 🙂 Thank you!
Thanks,
Lightroom and Photoshop for post, Premiere for editing 🙂
SOoooooo FAbulous!!!
Fab loved the dolley type shot in venice square of your wife? spinning around I used to edit commercials high end and this is very ell done thanks for sharing
Brilliant!
Made the same trip as a eight year old boy in my parents DAF 55 Marathon, with a 600 cc 2 cilinder engine an 34 BHP……..and of course an F in my hands and an F2 in my dads………then Yougoslavia was still in one piece and in the hands of general Tito. Im 51 now and boy has Europe changed. But Dubrovnik still is Dubrovnik. And damned has technology changed…..and creativity blossomed. We both shot 12 rolls of film (6 B&W probably Ilford stock, FP4 or HP3 and 6 slide (Kodakchrome what else)…….one of those rolls we forgot on the embankment the Neretva near the bridge in Mostar. But having said that……what a whopping film you made Ofer!
Everyone’s a photog now that little skill is required to make a photo. Ofer’s “offer” is the new darkroom: took lots of timing, skill, and commitment to set it off from the burgeoning pack. Bravo!
So stunning I am speechless.
Makes me feel completely inadequate.
(…goes to throw out camera gear and quit photography.)
Thanks for sharing your brilliant work.
-M.
Ofer,
Just before I pass I hope my brain plays your video… Great piece of art!
Great video. I keep hoping they will have an RX2 with the new pop-up viewfinder like the RX100mk3, the first one wasn’t going to work for me with the accessory external viewfinder.
This is really really good. Nicely done, congrats.
BRILLIANT !
Wow. This is really impressive. You could make some good money doing these for companies and businesses. I think you would get a lot of demand.
Perfect representation of life today! racing at break neck speed.
Personally that’s why i shot stills.
Time to reflect, to dream, to be lazy.
well done.
Amazing work!
This video is excellent ! I wish i were as talented as you are mate, really !
On a more technical level, the more i see picture from the RX1, the more i want it, and i love the very small and discreet form factor, it’s really what i’m looking for now, quality but small.
I echo all the comments here….brilliant work and an inspiration to get out and shoot. The RX1 is also my go to camera and I see very little point in ever changing or upgrading.
Now that is special!! Awesome work.
Amazing! As enjoyable as the previous one you made! Big fan of your video
So well shot and put together. Thanks for posting.
That was AMAZING! Loved it! I can just imagine the amount if work, and the patience involved in taking the pics. This is pure genius creating pure beauty!
Thanks!
Brilliant! Really enjoyed watching that…
Spectacular!
Inspiring! Gotta try one!
Wow, really cool. The ‘zoom in/zoom out’ sequences where really nice. I’d be interested in seeing the workflow to do this as well.
Ofer, I just wanted to tell you how absolutely amazing this is. Made my whole morning. I felt like I was with you and your wife and friends. It is beautiful, emotional, and just a fantastic opportunity to see the trip through your eyes. Thanks so much for putting it together and sharing. I have an RX1 also and was thrilled to see it put to such good use.
THANKS!
Really really great works. I love it very much. Wish you can share how you made it & look forward to your another Still photos video !
Thanks! will share ASAP
Brilliant!
Wow! So cool! Incredible work… congrats!
Loved it! I would love to know how many man hours were involved in putting that together.
Lots and lots, but it was fun 🙂
Ofer,
Truly great job and very inspiring for us RX1 owners! You have a very creative talent! Thank you for sharing!!!!
-Jason
11/10 brilliant!
Phenomenal use of imagery! The sequence around the young lady in the square was amazing.
This is an incredibly delightful video. Well done. I’ve never been a big video guy, but this an interesting and creative method. I loved the play with perspective. Officially inspired. Thanks, Ofer. Thanks Steve, for sharing with us.
Fresh and brilliant!
Fantastic! and Thank you! You put a smile on my face and I am now ready to take on the day.
awesome original amazing (someone take over please)!!
Really captures the spirit of the trip, magnificent work. Unique and masterful result!
Excellent, and great fun!
Wow, that was great.
Awesome time lapse fun well done!
Speechless…..
I had to repeat a couple of times. Would love to know how it’s done…
It’s like shooting a video, but instead you shoot lots of stills 😉
THAT was fantastic! Really strong work. Five stars!
Spectacular editing all from that little gem of a full frame Sony!
Wow that was amazingly beautiful!!! Way to go!! Love the song who was it?
“Big Jet Plane (Radio Edit)” by Angus and Julia Stone (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/big-jet-plane-ep/id427455341)
This is great. I hope you do some more!
BTW I thought the music was so-so, but that is life. At least you did not use anything too loud or predictable. 🙂
I agree, couldn’t find a better song 🙁
You definitely brought the concept to another level!
I like the song, the melo of it smooths the whole thing out. And your video is actually nicer to watch than their music video…
Just a technical question, what frequency for the stills (3 per seconde / 1 per seconde?) and do you stitch them back together using the same time (if 3 per seconde, stitch back 3 for each seconde?). Thanks, looking forward to your tutorial.
*second not seconde
I shot 1 still per many seconds, and edited them to be 12 stills per 1 second (12FPS)
Coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Bravo
Keren!! someday ill make a video like this
Amazing. Respect to you.
I dont really see how this is ‘just another’ road trip video. This is definitely one of the best out there. Amazing work, amazing trip. But most important, amazing times for you!
You must have patient friends 🙂 Really amazing though.
Thank you for this beautifull time lapse vid.
That was awesome! Great job!
Wow. Literally speechless. Fantastic work
Awesome work! Can you comment on how you put each scene together? In other words, do you see a pan sequence in your head and then recreate it with stills or do you just take a bunch of different shots of a “scene” and the stitch them together afterwards?
Most of the time I see them in my head before the shooting, it’s simpler that way 🙂
Damn. That’s inpressive.
Really enjoyed that many thanks.
I second the request for a tutorial.
Thanks, and no prob regarding the tutorial
Fabulous, a dash of freshness after one post and many…
TNX!
Really enjoyed watching it!
מדהים !!! אהבתי !!!
Very unique and cool! Nice work.
Excelent!
Brilliant and inspiring !!! Plus some very creative shots in between.
Great, I love it !
Absolutely awesome!!! Well done! Very cool and unique! Greetings from Zagreb!
beautiful !
This is spectacular! Love it!
Even better than NY. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks!
Perfect! I like it.
Well done!
Now that’s shooting with intention. Loved it!
Excellent, inspiring, supremely atmospheric, and most of all delicately intimate! Great work 🙂
Brilliance !
Really great. Love the idea and the video. You going to write a bit more about how you did it, some of the challenges or things to watch out for?
Thanks, I’ll try writing something about the process ASAP
Really well done…that was awesome! Looks like a lot of work…
A unusual presentation which grabbed me half way thru. Very creative. Your music selection really helped soften the staccato image stacking. Obviously a great deal of work, care and fore-thought went into producing this–wow–thank you Steve and Ofer.
“Ultra cool”! One of the most unique features I’ve had the pleasure of viewing on Steve’s site. You could make money doing these 🙂
Wow! great work! I would love to see a tutorial on this if you are ever up for it.
Thanks, will do that as soon as possible
+1
+1 (I love this movie!!!!!