DREAMLAPSE JAPAN is the product of a grueling but thrilling timelapse expedition through the streets of Japan in the days immediately following landfall of Typhoon Lan in August 2023. Hopefully this short captures a fraction of the intense beauty of these cities. Check it out in 4k and listen with headphones for the full experience! 🙂
Shot in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto with a Canon 6D, lenses Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L and Rokinon 12mm f2.8. Since it was super hot and we were trekking around a lot, I used an ultralight SIRUI Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod, which I was really happy with. The street light painting effect was done with long exposure images stacked using StarStax, an awesome program I usually use to create star trail images for night sky work for SkyglowProject.com. It really helped capture the surreal overwhelming feeling of the city streets at night. I don’t know if there’s a name for it already but I’ve been calling it “street stacking” 😉
Shot & Cut by Gavin Heffernan (GavinBHeffernan.com)
Produced by: Ben Dally & Briana Nadeau
Music: “Everything That Rises” by Moby. Courtesy: MobyGratis.com