Please do not share this clip to promote or endorse marine aquarium industry. Inquiries/licensing/press: find my contact details here: Music: Atmostra III by Cedric Baravaglio, Jonathan Ochmann and Zdravko Djordjevic. multiple computers to process thousands of 22+ Mpx raw images and perform focus stacking (an old laptop died on that mission after 3 weeks of continuous processing).Įdited in Sony Vegas, Adobe Photoshop CS6, Zerene Stacker, and Helicon Focus. StackShot, is sadly not 100% reliable at all and kept destroying my footage. several motorized stages, including StackShot for focus stacking. Lights: adjustable custom-spectrum lamps (3 different models) - they were needed to recreate natural underwater illumination. Lenses: Canon MP-E 65 mm lens, and a custom photomacrography rig (custom lenses are better for this type of task) Cameras: Canon 7D (died at the beginning of the project as I had overused it in my research), Canon 5d Mkiii (90% of footage is done with it) I am glad that I abandoned the idea of making this clip in 3D (with two cameras) - very few people have 3D screens and it doubles processing time.
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Unfortunately, the success rate was very low due to copious technical challenges and I spent almost 9 long months just to learn how to make these kinds of videos and understand how to work with these delicate creatures. One frame required about 10 minutes of processing time (raw conversion + stacking). Just the intro and last scene are regular real-time footage. Each frame of the video is actually a stack that consists of 3-12 shots where in-focus areas are merged. Why so many? Because macro photography involves shallow depth of field. To make this little clip I took 150000 shots.
The duration of sequences varied from 20 minutes to 6+ hours. Read more about fluorescence and why these corals are natural: When photographers use white light on corals, they simply miss the vast majority of colors. I have only applied basic white balance correction. The answer to a common question: yes, colors are "real" and not exaggerated by digital enhancement. Visit my website to see more work: Learn more about what you see in this video:
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This clip is displayed in Full HD, yet the source footage (or the whole clip), is available in UltraHD 4k resolution for media productions. Make sure you watch it on a large screen! You won't be able to appreciate this clip or see individual cells moving in a sponge on a smartphone. These animals are actually very mobile creatures, however their motion is only detectable at different time scales compared to ours and requires time lapses to be seen. Corals and sponges build coral reefs and play crucial roles in the biosphere, yet we know almost nothing about their daily lives.
"Slow" marine animals show their secret life under high magnification.
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