Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
[video=vimeo;21822029]http://vimeo.com/21822029[/video]
Given a whole row to themselves in a flight from San Francisco to Paris, most people would just strentch-out and sleep. Not this passenger, who set up his Canon 5D2 on a tripod and attached a timelapse controller.
When he pointed his 16mm-to-35mm lens out his airplane window, the result was this remarkable timelapse video of his 11-hour flight.
Taking that Great Circle route above the polar regions, the video flies us through the aurora borealis, giving us a look at those spectacular northern lights.
Also remarkable is the fact that the Air France flight crew allowed the use of this bundle of electronic devices throughout the entire flight. At the end of this video, you'll see the rig with which he snapped the 2,459 shots -- one approximately every two miles.
After the flight, they were edited together along with a few judiciously placed iPhone pics shot along the way.
Given a whole row to themselves in a flight from San Francisco to Paris, most people would just strentch-out and sleep. Not this passenger, who set up his Canon 5D2 on a tripod and attached a timelapse controller.
When he pointed his 16mm-to-35mm lens out his airplane window, the result was this remarkable timelapse video of his 11-hour flight.
Taking that Great Circle route above the polar regions, the video flies us through the aurora borealis, giving us a look at those spectacular northern lights.
Also remarkable is the fact that the Air France flight crew allowed the use of this bundle of electronic devices throughout the entire flight. At the end of this video, you'll see the rig with which he snapped the 2,459 shots -- one approximately every two miles.
After the flight, they were edited together along with a few judiciously placed iPhone pics shot along the way.
