Wow! I love the scenery in this video!
We have an amazing God who creates so much beauty! God asks some good questions in Job 38, and the following 2 verses are no exception. Job 38:19-20, "“What is the way to the place where light lives? Where is the home of darkness ,so that you may lead it to its territory, so that you may know the path to its home?" Only God has the answers, because He is Creator God!
From The Blaze:
Why do you travel? This was the question asked by the X PRIZE Foundation in its video contest that came with a $10,000 National Geographic Expedition as its grand prize.
The winner was recently announced, revealing this stunning time-lapsed video that shows the natural phenomenon known as the “Icelandic Midnight Sun” — a time when the sun never fully sets.
Videographer and traveler Joe Capra
shot more than 38,000 images to create this video. Learn Capra‘s
answer to the contest’s question in “Midnight Sun | Iceland”:
For Capra, however, it was a sleepless dream, as the midnight sun allowed him to shoot most of his 38,000 images between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. A typical scene took about a half hour, and the resulting 300 to 900 images would be edited and compressed into a few-seconds clip. Some shots use a stationary vantage point, but Capra prefers “motion control,” which pans or tracks across a landscape in a more natural, engaging way.
“Before this equipment was commercially available,” Capra recalls, “I had to custom make my own tracking device” that moves the camera smoothly and slowly along a track. When the images are compressed and the half hour becomes three seconds, the tracking turns into a naturally paced movement.
We have an amazing God who creates so much beauty! God asks some good questions in Job 38, and the following 2 verses are no exception. Job 38:19-20, "“What is the way to the place where light lives? Where is the home of darkness ,so that you may lead it to its territory, so that you may know the path to its home?" Only God has the answers, because He is Creator God!
From The Blaze:
Why do you travel? This was the question asked by the X PRIZE Foundation in its video contest that came with a $10,000 National Geographic Expedition as its grand prize.
The winner was recently announced, revealing this stunning time-lapsed video that shows the natural phenomenon known as the “Icelandic Midnight Sun” — a time when the sun never fully sets.
(Image: Screenshot via Scientifantastic by Joe Capra)
Wired has more on Capra’s film:
The Los Angeles-based Capra first became enamored with
Iceland after seeing the work of another photographer online. “I had to
go,” he recalls, “so I saved up all of my vacation days and bought a
ticket.” He went during the summer, when the days never really end and
the island is constantly bathed in a flattering light. Photographers
often speak reverently of the “golden hour” — the first and last hours
of light during the day — as the ideal time to shoot, the time when the
light is softer and shadows are longer. But during the Icelandic
summer, the golden hour becomes five, six, or seven hours of every day, a
photographer’s dream.For Capra, however, it was a sleepless dream, as the midnight sun allowed him to shoot most of his 38,000 images between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. A typical scene took about a half hour, and the resulting 300 to 900 images would be edited and compressed into a few-seconds clip. Some shots use a stationary vantage point, but Capra prefers “motion control,” which pans or tracks across a landscape in a more natural, engaging way.
“Before this equipment was commercially available,” Capra recalls, “I had to custom make my own tracking device” that moves the camera smoothly and slowly along a track. When the images are compressed and the half hour becomes three seconds, the tracking turns into a naturally paced movement.
(Image: Screenshot via Scientifantastic by Joe Capra)
(Image: Screenshot via Scientifantastic by Joe Capra)
(Image: Screenshot via Scientifantastic by Joe Capra)
The contest was sponsored by the non-profit X PRIZE Foundation,
which seeks to ”bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of
humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the
revitalization of markets that are currently stuck due to existing
failures or a commonly held belief that a solution is not possible.” In
order to address these challenges, it hosts these “large-scale,
high-profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment
in research and development worth far more than the prize itself.”
Capra first compiled and posted “Midnight Sun” on his Vimeo channel in
2011 and then submitted it for the contest, which stopped taking
submissions in April 2012. Public voting, which began on April 12,
helped choose the winner.
In his Vimeo post, Capra calls Iceland a
“landscape photographers paradise and playground” that should be at the
top of their lists of places to visit. He explains that during the time
of the midnight sun, the sun travels horizontally across the horizon,
which he shows in the opening shot of his video and at the :51 seconds.
God's best 2 U, Joy J
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