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the first time I ever took photos of the
galaxy I drove two or three hours into a
very remote location and I remember
looking off to the horizon and not
seeing anything and what's gonna happen
and you know sure enough maybe 30 or 40
minutes later I started to see these
unique formations and the stars right
above the horizon I literally with my
own eyes
could see the galactic core of the Milky
Way it was just so unique to me that I
was able to take a photograph and that
photograph represented what I saw early
on in my life I was diagnosed with
dyslexia some other learning
disabilities it's hard as a kid to see
everyone else doing so well at
everything and you just can't so the way
I found myself as a person was through
art I just loved taking pictures before
I even knew anything about what taking a
picture meant me being at Disneyland
when I'm you know eight years old and my
parents giving me a disposable camera to
just you know point and click the button
I had a lot of fun experimenting with
stop-motion just me walking around just
taking pictures you know as I walk
setting my camera on a tripod and seeing
all the clouds are moving you know and
just click the button every second or
two I couldn't afford a nice video
camera but I could take my images and
click the button a bunch of times and
that essentially would make a video that
concept really struck me all the video
is is a bunch of pictures
my first real release was my film
existence my whole idea was to show the
juxtaposition of city and and the stars
kind of the contrasts of the rapid
extremely fast movement in the city and
showing the very gentle and gradual
motion of nature photographing the stars
really doesn't require as much fancy
gear as people would think it doesn't
require a crazy telescope or you know a
really insanely fancy camera all it
requires is a prosumer grade DSLR camera
and pretty vast wide lens it really just
comes down to you planning as an artist
and doing the preparation for the shot
that's really what's gonna get you the
image you need to be away from light
pollution you need to get out of the
city
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I chose a spot for a number of reasons
it's just a really unique landscape kind
of has almost like an otherworldly feel
there's a lot of really great foreground
elements what this is is basically a
mechanical controlled dali system that
allows us to really explore our scenery
and our surroundings were able to go
through things over things move past
things and it's kind of what gives all
the crazy motion that you're seeing in
the shots with this box I can control
the interval in between shots basically
how long the camera will pause before
taking the next shot I can control how
many shots it takes how long it takes
it's like a robot that takes pictures
for me
so this is a Dobby light room here's our
Roth file
took for this shot I'll probably just go
through these sliders and enhance the
shot a little bit add some contrast once
I've saved the metadata I will bring all
the raw files into after effects as
sequence create a time lapse clip and
then bring that into Adobe Premiere to
into the final cut so my latest time
lapse piece is going to showcase
California's beautiful landscapes and
rather than just hit all the famous
locations that you've seen before a
million times I want to showcase the
ambience and the emotion of the places
everything from the seascapes on the
coastline to the beautiful sculptures in
the desert I have a drive to explore
things and to see things that are maybe
less seen whether that be standing on
top of a giant fog bank feeling like
you're the only person on the planet or
shooting the most incredible godrays out
in the middle of the desert I want so I
may need to maybe be inspired to go out
and explore or go out and see what they
can find
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