Chiang Mai timelapse: How it was made
We first met Saengthit Kamlangchai back in March after he had just released his second time-lapse video of Bangkok called "The Beauty of Faith". In the story accompanying the video, he explained some of the techniques that went into making his film and you can read about them here: http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-together/402276/a-unique-video-view-of-bangkok
Now he is back with his third video, this time from Chiang Mai. It is entitled Chiang Mai: "Light of Heaven".
Once again, he uses two basic techniques. First there is traditional time-lapse – taking a still picture of the same scene every few seconds for a period of time and then combining them into a film, usually 30 pictures into one second of film. Second is hyper-lapse where the camera also shifts position slightly for every photo taken.
"For this time lapse," Saengthit explains, "you should notice that the hyper-lapse scenes are very stable compared to the Bangkok videos. Also, there is very little light flickering for this film. I think it's really the result of "practice makes perfect".
"For this Chiang Mai time-lapse, my objective, as always, was to portray the true essence of the city. I thus traveled to many popular destinations in and around Chiang Mai, most notably Doi Inthanon, Doi Suthep, Huay Tung Tao Lake, and nearly all the temples within the Chiang Mai city. Other notable locations that I did the filming but are not included in the final film are Wat Phra That Doi Kham, Mae Ya Waterfall and Chiang Mai Night Safari.