Extraordinary Time-Lapse Video of Corals – 150K Raw Images Focus Stacked Together

Most of us invest time and money creating beautiful shots of life under the ocean, but few of us really take it to extreme.

Daniel Stoupin, a PhD student in the University of Queensland whose research is in the field of marine biology, has created something amazing beyond belief.

This video you are about to witness was created in a painstaking process, consisting of about 150,000 RAW images taken with the Canon 7D and 5D Mark III. According to Stoupin, the 7D didn’t survive the making of this video…

Every image in this time-lapse is created by focus stacking 3-12 seperate  22-megapixel RAW images, in order to achieve greater depth of field.  Each frame in the video took about 10 min to process and every minute of video took about 3 months of work to complete!

Slow Life from Daniel Stoupin on Vimeo.

The colors in the  video are amazing due to the full-spectrum light used to bring out fluorescence that is left out when illuminating them with strobes.

After 9 months of taking photos and processing, this masterpiece was released.

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Ran Mor

Sales and Marketing at Mozaik Underwater Cameras

Ran is a professional photographer for over 14 years. His passion for scuba diving and photography has pushed him to combine his profession and hobby and become a professional underwater photographer. Teaching is one of his greatest passions and over the years he has shared his experience with many divers and aspiring photographers. Along with his wife Danielle, an experienced Scuba Instructor, they have founded Dive and More, leading dive trips and UW photo workshops all over the world. Ran is also an electrical engineer and an avid internet marketing specialist.
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