Mark Marano

This is the first take of the little planet time-lapse shot at Sunset Park in Tarpon Springs..

looks like either the timer needs a little work or i’ll have to shoot more frames so it rotates a little smoother

and another perspective..

Here’s the first draft of a little planet time-lapse I shot at my friend Jesse’s wedding on the beach of Redington Shores.. It was a small wedding, comprised mostly of photographers!

Here’s another look at this image..

After landing in Hawaii for the first time and running around shooting little planet stills around the island while testing/tweaking my technique (as I had just begun experimenting with the little planet stereographic projection look a week before my trip), I thought the next thing to do would be to create a time-lapse video as it’d look pretty amazing (and it had never been done before). Here’s my first attempt at manually creating it.. This is raw, unedited and unfinished.. [...]

had a feeling there’d be some interesting light out.. and I almost didn’t go out to experience it! by the time I went out to see it, I felt it was too late to set up a ‘normal’ time-lapse and I had gotten a little tired of shooting so many of those lately.. I grabbed the 12mm lens and started shooting.. after experiencing the beautiful light for a while and taking shots in many directions, I felt inspired to put [...]

here’s a reverse little planet, a stereographic tunnel.. some stitching errors are visible in this one (the wind was blowing constantly and was pretty strong so the clouds in the last shot were in a different position in the sky than in the first shot and couldn’t align properly) here’s the first take on the top shot (before I decided to slow the frame rate down to compensate for the wind)..

and another shot as the little planet fades out..

A time-lapse from the boat dock at Lansbrook Park.. I didn’t bring the whole 360×180 rig with me this time so took a different approach in the editing..

after shooting, tweaking, and learning the little planet technique while wandering about oahu, i knew the next thing to do would be create a time-lapse in the little planet look.. here’s a sample stereographic projection little planet video.. i had to manually fire this as my interval timer broke!