Jeremiah Barber is a photographer who has captured the amazing beauty of Snow Canyon State Park, just outside of St. George, UT.  It’s about 40 minutes from Zion National Park which gets all the attention.  If you’re in that area of the country, stop by this natural beauty and enjoy some quiet hiking without all the crowds.  By the way, Jeremiah shared this with us in the forums, which is a great place for you to leave your comments.

Jeremiah writes:

Snow Canyon State Park is located just 2 hours Northeast of Las Vegas, NV. The park is closest to St George and Ivins, UT. The park is a unique mix of red and white sandstone and lava rock.

This work is the result of nearly 4 months of intermittent time lapse shoots in the park. During the time I spent shooting there, I have developed quite an appreciation for the amazing geological features that the park is comprised of. The unique landscape is simply awesome and inspiring. In my heart it is impossible to avoid acknowledging God’s hand in the creation of such a beautiful masterpiece.

Thanks to Dexter Britain for the incredible music. You can find his work here:
http://dexterbritain.co.uk/

And my photography can be found at jeremiahbarberphotography.com

The post Snow Canyon: The Incredible appeared first on timelapse.org.

We backed this on    You can too! 

The timelapse starts around 2:12 in this video, but it’s really worth watching it from the beginning.

roy2k, the artist who created this beautiful timelapse (he wrote and performed the music too) clearly has an immense amount of passion and creativity, and after you watch you’ll probably want to back his Kickstarter project.  We certainly wanted to – and did!  Leave your comments for Roy in the forums, check out his site, and do consider backing his next project!  And if you’re a manufacturer of timelapse equipment, perhaps you can donate or loan some to Roy?

Here’s Roy:

Hello timelapse community!!

Roy Two Thousand here, asking for your help funding my project to create a truly EPIC timelapse from the playa this year. My last effort, The Fertile Desert, was an Offical Selection of The Nevada City Film Festival, and it won Best Overall at the Chronos Timelapse Film Festival!

The Fertile Desert presented the energetic dance and exploration of consciousness that is Burning Man. More than a story, it is an experience, a trigger to remember, and an impetus to explore. The footage set the stage for more inclusive involvement and interactivity by adopting the style of the subject itself: an open, flowing, stimulating art form. Once again, I am returning to the Playa with an open mind and expanding heart.

To this day I’ve been timelapsing on a minimal budget and I would greatly appreciate your help so that I can step up my game I have a lot of ideas in store, and I have music and video downloads and some awesome prints as a reward for your contribution

Thank you!!
roy

The post Fertile Desert part 2 )’( Burning Man 2013 ~ Kickstarter appeared first on timelapse.org.

Chicago is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.  It doesn’t have the bright colors or massive crowds and bright lights of other top cities, but it’s got this understated beauty and sophistication that you just can’t find anywhere else.  Arne Wossink’s timelapse Second City captures all of this and much more.  Join Arne in the forums and leave him some comments.

The post Second City appeared first on timelapse.org.

Hawaii is one of those places that seems too good to be real.  But Rafal Maleszyk created a wonderful timelapse that shows that it is in fact very real.  The water, sand, and sky are so rich and colorful in this timelapse, and I think that someday we’ll have to hold a timelapse convention in Hawaii.  Be sure to stop by the forums to say hello and share your comments, and then check out some of Rafal’s really amazing work at rafalmaleszyk.com

The post Mini Hawaii appeared first on timelapse.org.

Adobe’s move to a subscription only model for their market dominating Creative Suite software products (now Creative Cloud) has caused quite a bit of anger by long time Adobe customers. This article will address this major change, discuss some of the possible reasons for Adobe’s ending of perpetual licensing, and raise some serious concerns about the impact this move will have on the millions of content creators who rely on Adobe’s products.

Although they would never admit to it, Adobe has got to be quite disappointed with their subscription numbers. Adobe has claimed the demand for the cloud is incredibly high.  They’re ending perpetual licensing because people flocking to the cloud. Their hard sell at NAB belies that assertion, as do the data – at least to the extent that data is available. Although Adobe doesn’t publish exactly on how many people subscribe to Creative Cloud vs. own perpetual licenses, looking through their financial reports is a bit enlightening.

(If you have better/new information please post it in the forums so this article can be updated.)

Let’s start with 2007’s numbers: In 2007, the year Adobe released CS3, Adobe had revenue of $3.2 billion.  60% of that ($1.9 billion) was from their Creative line of products. There’s no data on how much of that revenue was from upgrades vs. full licenses, but CS3 was a big ugrade and probably accounted for a majority of the revenue. For the sake of simplicity, let’s assume that the average price per license (averaging all upgrade, full, academic, volume) was $1000. That would amount to approximately 1,900,000 licenses. Keep in mind that many people updated CS suites every other cycle, so the number of licenses could have been far greater.  Now look at FY2012, where Adobe had $3.343 billion in sales (creative and other – they didn’t break it down further) and $673 million in all subscriptions, of which $153 million was in Creative Cloud subscriptions.  These are small subscription numbers against product sales.

A Mature Product

Adobe’s products are at the heart of the creation process for most of the incredible timelapse we feature hear on this site. Creative Suite 6 is a very stable and mature product which millions of people use each day to create a vast array of incredible work. Quite frankly, CS6 is probably the last version of Creative Suite most people will need for the next 5 years.  That’s a major problem for Adobe, which needs to find a way to get the millions of customers they already have to upgrade as often as possible. Historically Adobe has done this by innovating and evolving the product just enough between versions to drive the upgrade cycle.

With a mature product like CS6 it becomes much harder to innovate.  In fact for many users, the pace of innovation since CS3 has slowed to the point where they forgo upgrading to each new version and instead opt to upgrade every other version. From CS3 to CS5 to CS6 (skipping CS4 and the CS5.5). Rather than spend $600 to upgrade each year, people were spending $600 to upgrade every 2 to 4 years.  It’s also notable that Adobe’s release window seemed to contract a bit with each release.  The chart on the right show a typical upgrade schedule for many users (in bold). 

This was not an ideal situation for Adobe and they set out to  find a way to change this pattern.  Enter Creative Cloud – a new product that not only promises endless updates to customers, but endless payments to Adobe, whether or not the upgraded features are worth it. Rather than collect $600 every two or three years from perpetually licensed users, they can now collect a full $600 per year from subscribers in perpetuity. They said just this in their March 2013 10Q (left).

“Current” doesn’t mean Adobe will keep you up to date with new features.  It means means you will keep Adobe up to date with your payments. Once you’re on the subscription, you’re on it for the rest of your creative life. This isn’t cable tv, an internet connection, or a cell phone plan.  It isn’t like most things in life where you have real alternatives you can choose.  Adobe has a virtual monopoly on the tools for creating content.  Sure there’s FCP and Avid and a few smaller choices for video.  But photo editing and desktop publishing?  They bought out their biggest competition in 2005 (Macromedia).  With this move to subscription only, Adobe has taken away the choice to pay for an upgrade or not.  No perpetual pay, no more play.  With the perpetual license you were in control of when and if you wanted to pay more for new features.  But that’s gone. For ever.  Although it should be noted that in that March 2013 10Q Adobe wrote:

We continue to implement strategies that will accelerate the adoption of our Creative Cloud subscription model, causing our traditional perpetual license revenue to decline. We currently plan to continue to offer the perpetual licensing model as we transition our customers to this new subscription-based model.

Apparently they changed their minds.   EDIT: They’ve taken it off the front page, they’ve removed it from their online catalog of products, but for the time being you can still find the CS6 perpetual license available for purchase (upgrade and full) on Adobe’s site.

Would you pay $960 to upgrade today?

Consider this….  In May 2012 Adobe announced CS6 with great new features that made it a fantastic upgrade from CS3 and CS4, and a great upgrade from CS5.  And they announced the new Creative Cloud subscription model.  If you made the move to the subscription for the $360/12 months introductory price, then it’s now time to pay $600 for another year.  Of course you don’t have to pay.  You can always go back to your old CS3, CS4, or CS5 perpetual license.  If you upgraded to a CS6 Master Collection perpetual license ($525 from CS5MC or $895 from CS5 Design/Production) then today you can keep on using CS6 with nothing more to pay, although also notably without any new features.

So what about those new features?  Suppose all Adobe still offered was a perpetual licenses and you were already on CS6.  Would the updates they’ve announced and released be substantial enough to get you to upgrade to a hypothetical CS7 suite for $960 – the cost of the subscription for the first two years?  Or would you skip this hypothetical CS7 release and wait for the next one?  The chart on the right shows the cost of each model assuming most recent pricing.

Keep in mind that Adobe has traditionally been on a 2 year upgrade cycle for major releases.  Since CS6 was one year ago, if they ever released a CS7 (they won’t) it would be slated for next year.  From the underwhelming response on the web, many people do seem to feel the new features amount to more of a CS6.3 upgrade than CS7.  So $960 for CS6.3? Next May when Adobe presumably holds their next MAX convention, they’ll announce more updates and features.  It’s possible by that time they’ll have introduced enough new features beyond CS6 so people will look at everything and think, “Yeah, now this is about a CS7 upgrade level.”  But then the question will be, is a theoretical CS7 upgrade worth $1560?

Adobe’s “Creative Monopoly”

As the dominant supplier of applications for creating content, Adobe’s “Creative Monopoly” now creates substantial risk to the millions of creative individuals who have little choice but to use Adobe’s products.  Their dominance gives them the power to decide the cost of entry into the world of digital creativity, and the decision to eliminate the perpetual license will likely have a lasting and significantly harmful effect.  It creates a foundation from which Adobe can very easily (albeit unintentionally) starve innovation from others and from within.

Adobe will continue to innovate, but at a much slower pace.  They won’t need innovation to drive sales of upgrades or acquire new customers, and the costs of innovating on such mature products becomes more costly and yields fewer results.  Eventually most people will migrate Adobe’s subscription model, most likely due to new technologies coming along that will break CS6.  Things like new RAW formats on new cameras.  Adobe will support them for subscribers but not for perpetual license holders.

For Adobe, much of the work of moving people to the subscription becomes an exercise in patience.  Innovate in small ways, but mostly wait.

Adobe will scale back their massive R&D efforts to boost revenues while they patiently wait for the migration.

And it’s when they do that – when they stop updating and innovating – that we’re going wish we didn’t have to keep paying Adobe month after month, year after year for a product that’s basically complete.

———–

Please post your thoughts, comments, and suggestions on this article (or any interpretations/corrections on the data published) in the forums.

The post Adobe’s “Creative Monopoly” appeared first on timelapse.org.

Here’s a beautiful timelapse from photographer Shawn Malone of lakesuperiorphoto.com that’s filled with really wonderful night sky and Aurora Borealis from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  You can check out some of his excellent photography at his site.

The post North Country Dreamland appeared first on timelapse.org.

Mar de Luz is a very vibrant timelapse willed with great shots and hyperlapse from Fortaleza, Brazil.  The work was created by Moov, a studio based in Rio headed by Gustavo Pellizzon and Marcos Michael.  Be sure to check out their other work Time of Rio, which you’ll find over on their site.  at imagemoov.com They write:

A walk through Fortaleza, one of the most beautiful cities in Brazil! The capital of Ceará grows bathed by the sea of light in Northeast of the country.

Contact us for footage license or request your production.

Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/imagemoov

Um passeio por uma das mais belas cidades brasileiras! Fortaleza, capital do estado do Ceará, uma metrópole que cresce banhada pelo mar de luz do Nordeste do Brasil.

Entre em contato para licenciamento de imagens ou solicitar algo especial para sua produção.

Siga-nos no Facebook: facebook.com/imagemoov

The post Mar de Luz appeared first on timelapse.org.

This rig also has one of the simplest MoCo interfaces you’re ever likely to find.  Check out a quick video showing how it works, then head on over to pocketslider.de if you want more information.

The post PocketSlider V2 appeared first on timelapse.org.

This is something really different, and it highlights Eternal Light, a new App that’s up on Kickstarter that currently has 74 backers and is looking for some love from people with iOS phones/tablets.  It can build a timelapse (or video montage) from thousands (or hundreds, or hundreds of thousands!) of images.

Please leave your comments for this specific video in the forums and stop by their Kickstarter page or eternallight.io for more information.

Here’s a quick teaser video:

And check out some another example made by the App:

The post Ju and me on the internet appeared first on timelapse.org.

With each new timelapse Alejandro Iborra creates we get more and more refinements in technique and beauty.  His latest (we featured his trailer for it back on April 17th).  is Time which he shared in the forums and we just have to make our Timelapse of the Day for May 2nd.  You can check out some of his other timelapse too, and be sure to visit Alejandro’s site at ibizatimelapses.com after you’ve watched!

Alejandro writes:

This is the result of the last months of work gathering the best night shots on the island of Ibiza and Tenerife. I want to thank my family who have had patience with me, and my great friend Jose for being almost always by my side …

Este es el resultado de los ultimos meses de trabajo reuniendo las mejores tomas nocturnas en la isla de Ibiza y Tenerife, quiero agradecer a mi familia la paciencia que han tenido conmigo, y a mi gran amigo Jose por estar prácticamente siempre a mi lado …

The post TIME appeared first on timelapse.org.