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Watch New
York City Come Alive in This Amazing Timelapse
by Marina Koren,
Smithsonian.com, June 13, 2013
Photographer Drew Geraci decided
to turn New York City's
fact-paced lifestyle up another notch.
The time-lapse stars midtown Manhattan, one of the
most bustling spots on the island, and condenses more than 50,000 still frames
from six months of shooting at 100 locations in less than three minutes.
“We wanted to get that
feeling of what it was like to be in Midtown where everything’s happening,”
says Geraci, a Washington, D.C.-based photographer and videographer. “Find the
coolest locations and really find something unique about those locations, and
shoot them in a way that maybe hasn’t been shot before."
Bird’s eye views from
towering rooftops show the ebb and flow of people and cars on the streets below.
Down at street level, Geraci captured scenes from moving taxicabs. Some of the
city’s most recognizable landmarks make an appearance: The Empire State and Flatiron Buildings,
Grand Central Station, Central Park and, of course, Times
Square.
“It was really an amazing
experience for us to go over there and capture the city from all different
angles,” says Geraci, who owns production company District 7 Media with
Arthur Breese. The pair used four Canon 5D Mark IIIs with wide-angle lenses, a
six-foot dolly and several stop-motion rigs to capture the footage. They then
mixed in natural sound recorded at each scene—cars honking, neon signs buzzing,
boats blowing their horns out on the water.
Geraci and Breese scouted the
locations beforehand and received permission or permits to shoot there, except
for the subway system, where MTA workers asked them to leave when the duo tried
to set up their tripods. “We had to figure out a way to time the train, put out
the tripod, get the camera ready, maybe shoot 400 frames and then book it out
of there,” Geraci says.
The photographer says he
likes the atmosphere of the city that never sleeps. “There’s a different feel
for every different city, but they all have that one common element of lots of
people, traffic and really neat architecture,” he says. “I think [New York] is the big city of the United States,
so I have to pay homage to it.”
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