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Footage I shot over the summer of 2009 mostly in the San Francisco bay area.

Music by His Boy Elroy.

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  • Steve V 2 months ago
    Fantastic.
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  • ße ωell ;-) plus 2 months ago
    nice work Ben!
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  • Frederic Vercammen plus 2 months ago
    briliant !!!
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  • Andrew Howe plus 2 months ago
    Fabulous and fascinating
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  • Michael Rissi plus 2 months ago
    Stunning!!
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  • Steve Perret 2 months ago
    nice job !
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  • marie oudin 2 months ago
    Your video is quite fascinating. I felt the spirit of SF all over again ! The clouds are a major character of the city to me. And I have to say that the sight of planes' lights queueing to land is quite magical.
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  • fexbmx 2 months ago
    Speachless again!
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  • Will Valle 2 months ago
    fantastic work...what are you shooting with? looks like the work of a 5D Mark II.
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  • BoldView Productions 2 months ago
    This was a great video. We love the cinematography and the music goes perfect. what kind of camera did you shoot this on?
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  • Delrious plus 2 months ago
    I shoot on a 5dmkii.
  • James Knightly 2 months ago
    Incredible!
    How much did your shutter speed vary?
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  • Loren Lewis 2 months ago
    One of the best time-lapses I've ever seen!
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  • Maxime plus 2 months ago
    Great! Bravo!
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  • Alessandro Nucci 2 months ago
    Beautiful video. How did you make the camera move at the end? Or was it a motion made in post?
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  • alan marino plus 2 months ago
    my new favorite TL on vimeo. is the tilt up to starfield done in post?
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  • Drew Kirkland 2 months ago
    From the East Coast - this video shows the truly beautiful side of the West Coast. Incredible footage.
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  • Moayad Hassan plus 2 months ago
    amazing!
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  • Matt White 2 months ago
    This is really beautiful, great work!
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  • Delrious plus 2 months ago
    The starfield pan was done in post. It was shot right in front of my house with the camera mounted vertically.
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  • rendaa plus 2 months ago
    Wow!
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  • Jay M Raiveeson 2 months ago
    wow. great video
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  • mark smida 2 months ago
    very nice!
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  • eucalyptus plus 2 months ago
    so many great shots in this. but oddly, the one that really caught my eye was the one showing the planes landing. the way they were turning in the air and then descending, one after another in high speed. kind of eerie for some reason, as if looking at an airport on another planet. great work!
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  • Andrew Hwang 2 months ago
    Amazing shots and amazing video.

    Who is the song by? And what is the song called?
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  • egamiFX Studio 2 months ago
    WOW!! this is a great time lapse video... on my way to SF :)
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  • Ruben Rios 2 months ago
    Amazing!
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  • Anthony Gardner 2 months ago
    great video. I loved the night shots.
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  • Dan Carter plus 2 months ago
    That! Was! Great! Thanks for your efforts..
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  • Delrious plus 2 months ago
    The song is "Revolve" by His Boy Elroy who posts their work on ccmixter.org.
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  • Michael Clarke 2 months ago
    Love this video. Reminds me how lucky I am to live in such a beautiful place!
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  • Kevan 2 months ago
    i wish there was a button for "love it"... very impressed! the shot of half dome is awesome!
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  • Simon Owen 2 months ago
    Beautifully awesome.
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  • Lagléra Frédéric plus 2 months ago
    nice job, beautiful !!!
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  • Kevin Neberman 2 months ago
    Amazing, no better word to describe it!
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  • mpared 2 months ago
    lovely piece of work posted at the curious brain
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  • rickflick 2 months ago
    Wow! Very impressive. Congrats!
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  • George Kraft 2 months ago
    Fantastic! Especially the SFO and bridge scenes. Just an amazing piece of work!
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  • F!L___ 2 months ago
    superbe. fits with the music!
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  • Olivier Blaecke 2 months ago
    Very nice !
    I want to come to Sf now :)
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  • Hugo 2 months ago
    that's beautiful, great job ! :D
    especially night shots, i really like it :)
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  • Blaž Peruš 2 months ago
    Fantastic!
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  • Johnny Amon 2 months ago
    The shot at 3:55 especially caught my eye. The contrast of the stars to the moonlight on the water was just amazing. Also overall this entire clip was a breathtaking piece of work. What camera did you use for this production?
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  • Sebastiaan Knoops 2 months ago
    is that the pigeon point lighthouse at 1:10 ?
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  • Adam Machowiak 2 months ago
    Awesome! One of the best Time lapse video here on Vimeo.
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  • Joseba1 2 months ago
    good color and lux. Very nice.
    thank for share.
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  • Ohad Ben-Yoseph 2 months ago
    On an average scene, what was the interval between each photo?
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  • danny hodges 2 months ago
    this is one of the coolest videos I have seen in my lifetime... absolutely amazing. BRILLIANT!
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  • mauro mazzari 2 months ago
    how many shots are necessary for 1 minute time lapse...and do you correct the exposition manually during the day to adjust with tle light or the camera do this by itself ? do you use a modified firmware in the camera and use a specific software for the editing ?

    great job anyway......
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  • Matthew Brown plus 2 months ago
    Wow, where's that lighthouse at?
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  • Kosma 2 months ago
    WOW. stunning! I'm in love with this video.
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  • Mark Empey plus 2 months ago
    one of the best that I have ever seen!
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  • deceptive 2 months ago
    Good stuff!
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  • ineaux 2 months ago
    stunning, brings back great memories of my honeymoon there, especially the seals

    top work!
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  • harry im club 2 months ago
    soo nice! What camera and shutter speed did you use?
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  • Aakash Jain 2 months ago
    amazing stuff.
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  • Martin Teschner 2 months ago
    awesome!!!!
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  • Lawrence Alea 2 months ago
    amazing, the planes landing were awsome
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  • Kevin Jacobs 2 months ago
    This is just..breathtaking!
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  • pixelcatcher 2 months ago
    yeah, good job!
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  • hillary hartley 2 months ago
    love, love, love. and the music is perfect!
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  • David Hollander 2 months ago
    Really awesome! My mood improved about 178 degrees while watching it! Thanks!
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  • Kelly DeLay plus 2 months ago
    Simply amazing. What patience you have to site there through so many scenes. Thanks Ben. I hate you :)
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  • Adam Levins 2 months ago
    May I ask what Lenses U used? Awesome stuff in this edit!
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  • Olivier Bueno 2 months ago
    Nice video for sure. I was wondering how you got to stay at your viewpoint for the Bay Bridge sequence for that long. Did you have to get an authorization or you just stayed there right above the Yerba Buena tunnel?
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  • Delrious plus 2 months ago
    Lenses used:

    Canon 50mm f1.4
    Canon 200mm f2.8L (+1.4 extender)
    Canon 400mm f5.6L (+2x extender)
    Canon 85mm f1.2L
    Canon 24mm f1.4L
    Sigma 12-24mm

    There's a spot above the tunnel that is accessible from the streets. There are photographers there constantly. AFAIK the good spot that you see in all of the old portraits of SF is "off limits" now...
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  • Jean Huy plus 2 months ago
    Stunning and inspiring! The airplanes landing like shooting stars... brilliant idea!
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  • Shawn B. Smith plus 2 months ago
    Wow... Really amazing video. This is the reason I want the 5dMKII lol
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  • Ron Manning 2 months ago
    I am impressed. One of the best videos I've seen. Bravo!!
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  • Ron Kurti 2 months ago
    more airplanes at night please!!!!
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  • Claude Lyneis 2 months ago
    This sets the standard for time lapse in the Bay Area. I loved the fog over the San Bruno hills, the airplanes landing in Oakland. It is amazing what can be done with the 5D Mark II.
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  • ethernaut rix 2 months ago
    I love this SO MUCH! I especially -- no, "especially" is meaningless, but the footage of SFO at night (it was SFO, right?) -- WOW. Just WOW.
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  • CARLOS DIAZ 2 months ago
    Which is the camera that you used>?
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  • Rich Staley plus 2 months ago
    Beautiful!!!
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  • Robert Vinet 2 months ago
    Brilliant work! Wonderful choice of music as well.
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  • Paul Puccio 2 months ago
    just awesome mang!! seriously, obviously everybody loves it... so sick. I'm sharing this link!!
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  • Boreal Sky plus 2 months ago
    Dude, excellent - outstanding - work, really great stuff! I love the piece but if I could change anything I think you should have started with your stronger shots of the nighttime cars, the moon glow on water and airplane shots, those are totally off da hook and a casual viewer might not stick around long enough to catch those. Great work, I love it
  • Max 2 months ago
    He is building up to those shots - also it transitions from day to night...
  • Boreal Sky plus 2 months ago
    I realize that (day to night) but my experience with EPs at networks and producers, they want your juicy stuff up front. As I said, its all great stuff. This is art. But outside of Vimeo someone will want the money shots up front.
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  • BUTTER FILMS 2 months ago
    i will watch this many more times. thank you
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  • Nikio 2 months ago
    The shot with the airplanes coming down is really cool, something we haven't seen in timelapses yet.

    Could you make this available for download, for our private collections? Please? :D
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  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 2 months ago
    It would be nice if you could let us download the original file. I would love to watch this on our HDTV with my husband for example (via the Sony PS3).

    BTW, when you reply, please use the "reply to this comment" instead of "post comment", otherwise the person you reply to never gets a notification email that you actually replied.
  • Delrious plus 2 months ago
    It is now downloadable. Thanks.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 2 months ago
    Beautiful, thank you!
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  • Bee4video 2 months ago
    Very nice work. I love the airport views
  • Kevin Jacobs 2 months ago
    I completely agree. That's the most impressive shot of the film. Stunning.
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  • Joshua Laplap 2 months ago
    i like how there was progression from day to night. and the planes... something very odd and special about them.
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  • shawn plus 2 months ago
    beautiful and inspirational
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  • Rodo Een 2 months ago
    Wow, that's some really amazing footage!
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  • no-one 2 months ago
    Well,clouds are magic and so is your video.Beautiful colors and music fits to moving clouds! It is so nice to watch clouds,you can drown in thoughts focusing on them and your vid has also the effect!
    Thanks for showing your masterpiece!
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  • Ouroborus 2 months ago
    Out of this world!
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  • Jil plus 2 months ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Philippe Olivier 2 months ago
    stupéfiant ...
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  • ifranz plus 2 months ago
    Incredible! Awesome. Best Video at Vimeo since Weeks!
  • Gui Nunes 2 months ago
    Agreed!
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  • David Healy 2 months ago
    Sooooooooooooooo good!!! Thanks for sharing, Ben!
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  • Ozzy Alvarez 2 months ago
    WOW! can I say WOW again, I mean totally WOW!!!! this was great to watch and listen too. Thanks for taking the time to make this.
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  • Crystal Visions 2 months ago
    That was absolutely stunning!
    Nice work. :-)
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  • Stefan G 2 months ago
    Beautiful...
    Looking forward to seeing more!
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  • a6rnh 2 months ago
    very, very nice, love the moonlit ones
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