I've been photographing the US National Parks for two decades - by 2002, I had made large format photographs in each of them. This is my first finished attempt at motion, which seemed appropriate to interpret and share one of the most dynamic landscapes on earth, the volcanoes of Hawaii.
Here are some highlights of this sea-to-summit project, filmed using time-lapse photography and DSLR video
in 2011 and 2013, mostly in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii:
1. One of the most mesmerizing spectacles of nature I've witnessed is lava flowing to the ocean as clouds of steam rise from the meeting of fire and water. After everybody had left, I stayed behind to capture
the pulse of the flow over an entire night.
2. Since 2008, the Halemaʻumaʻu Crater at Kilauea Summit contains an active lava lake which at night illuminates a large gas plume. I captured the Milky Way appearing in a weather break above by setting up my camera in the rain.
3. Besides filming Mauna Loa, the world's largest volcano from Mauna Kea and Haleakala, I backpacked on steep lava fields to the 13700 feet summit and stayed overnight in sub-freezing temperatures to capture what is likely the first night-time and sunrise time-lapses from the top of the summit cliffs overlooking the immense Mokuaweoweo caldera.
Guides/trip reports/behind the scenes about those adventures:
ocean terragalleria.com/blog/2013/04/25/photographing-the-lava-ocean-entry-in-hawaii
summit terragalleria.com/blog/2013/05/17/hiking-mauna-loa-summit-via-observatory-trail
Hawaii Volcanoes picture gallery: terragalleria.com/parks/np.hawaii-volcanoes.html
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I am a full-time photographer, accepting assignments worldwide. Most of the film footage is available in 4K.
Equipment: Canon 5D mk2 & mk3 cameras, Canon 24/1.4, 24-105, 100-400, Nikkor 12-24/2.8.
Post-production: Lightroom 4, Adobe CS5 (Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro), LRTimelapse, GBDeflicker.
I am grateful to zero-project zero-project.gr for the CC-licensed (edited) track "Ride of the Dark Knight", and Steven Bumgardner vimeo.com/user2380620 for guidance and advice.
Thank you for watching. I always appreciate comments and feeback (critiques welcome).
Cast: QT Luong and zero-project
Tags: timelapse, time-lapse, nature, landscape, mountain, volcano, hawaii, lava, crater, clouds, sky, night, stars and national park
via Vimeo / Slowmotion & Timelapse Theater http://vimeo.com/channels/1341/67687294
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