2010 Grape Harvest Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse
This is a much more complete version of my 2010 grape harvest tilt-shift time-lapse video. I’ve integrated footage from three different harvests: a dawn harvest at Jim Ball, a dawn harvest at Yorkville Cellars, and a late-night harvest at Claudia Springs. I took about 6000 still images over those three days, and this video represents 3,570 distinct photos. They’ve all been altered in Photoshop to give them the tilt-shift effect (contrast increased, saturation increased, and a lens blur applied).
This is still very much a work-in-progress, and you can tell by the glitches in this video. Some little jostles of the camera, some flicker on some segments (where I forgot to manually white balance), etc. The ‘story’ also isn’t complete. I didn’t really shoot everything I needed to. I need to get more actual harvesting, and I hope to do some filming of pruning, bottling, labeling, etc., so that I end up with an arc that goes from pruning all the way through a finished bottle of wine. What I really need is for a winery to hire me to do a great video of their entire operation, as a promotional piece, so that I can dedicate the time I want to to this silly hobby.
I’m also thinking about other things that will lend themselves to this form, and would love suggestions. Fishing/crabbing in Noyo Harbor makes a lot of sense to me, as does the Skunk Train, and maybe the Boonville Fair or a rodeo. There must be other things going on in the county that would look great as miniatures, though. So please give me your suggestions!
Here’s the movie:
This is such a cool video. I want to see when you do one of the whole wine making process! Speaking of wine…we should share a glass sometime soon. Miss you!
Miss you, Lyss! You two should come out sometime and we can all go wine tasting – I can set up a very fun day for us. Love!