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Yosemite HD Timelapse: Behind the Scenes
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Yosemite HD Timelapse: Behind the Scenes

2012 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Filmmakers Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty spend an extended stretch of time in Yosemite National Park chasing a single goal: capturing the park in timelapse across seasons, weather, and light. The film follows their process rather than just the finished footage, showing the two hauling camera rigs up cliffs and across meadows, waiting out storms, and troubleshooting gear failures in the field. Interviews with Neill and Delehanty explain why they chose Yosemite specifically and what it takes logistically to hold a camera steady for hours to compress days into seconds. Granite domes, waterfalls, star fields over Half Dome, and shifting cloud banks appear both as raw timelapse sequences and as moments the pair describe shooting in real time. The film works as a small case study in independent nature photography: two people with limited resources committing to one location long enough to actually capture what a park looks like across an entire cycle of weather, rather than a single postcard moment.