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[EOSHD]

Set to the theme of Danny Boyle's Sunshine here is what I think could well be the best timelapse ever shot.

Likely taken with a Nikon full frame DSLR (NASA have used Nikon cameras in space since the 1960's) it shows a view of the Earth at night from an orbiting International Space Station.

The colour and light is just fantastic.

Full screen it, project it, darken the lights and put the volume up a notch. It is worth it believe me.

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[Germy1979]

That is wild!

[andy lee]

stunning ! all real and all in camera! better than any SiFi film - can you imagine how much it would cost to do that CGI at ILM !! haha!

[grego]

Simply stunning.

@Andy Lee To do at an effects house would be billions times cheaper but you are missing the point of seeing this for real.

[Quinlan]

Really amazing!

[khyrofilms]

Good but.... I saw better timelapses... every shots from ISS looks good, but i prefer other timelapses... from our mother earth not above it

[lafilm]

The best ever without a doubt. Flat out AWESOME.

[richg101]

I find the way the structures manoeuver and interact with the light to be the most beautiful aspect to this. The music is also amazing. I have yet to purchase the soundtrack on the basis that they decided only to release it on horrible itunes, and no cd release.


I love this too:-

[Axel]

When we were 15 and lay on the meadow facing the night sky, we exchanged thoughts about, er, everything. Because we felt as if we were the center of the universe and very marginal at the same time. Conventional time lapse clips visually confirm the medieval concept of the firmament with the stars passing around us. What makes this beautiful clip so touching is that we see the marble drifting away, the eye is no longer earthbound.

I would like to have a timelapse film which starts conventionally, at normal speed and at the height of the traffic lights at the end of the street, facing the horizon , and then, with a smooth speed ramp to timelapse, the surface rotates and dives away, leaving the canopy. As if the nodal point of the camera was no longer "connected to relativity" (unthinkable, but true: all these connections are just the limits of our imagination), and everything else moved.

Rotating earth instead of sky has been done:

[amband]

a lot of post work in this. Doesn't look authentic