The Unseen Sea
The Unseen Sea, is a collection of time lapses from around the San Francisco Bay Area roughly shot over the period of one year in 2009/2010.
It started out with me collecting shots from different vantage points around the Bay Area without a clear plan of the final result. It was really over the period of that year, that I decided I wanted to cut my favorite shots together and create a short film. The shot of the fog "waves" hitting the hill side finally made me decided to focus on the fog and it's unique movement. From there on out I specifically set out to capture images of fog. Which resulted in a lot of grey images... Just like with other photography, sometimes you get lucky with what nature puts on display other times you don't. For every shot that is in the final film, there must be at least 10 that weren't all that special.
But once in a while I got lucky with the scenes that unfolded in front of me, and my persistence of heading out trying to find interesting light and new vantage points started to pay off. I was fortunate to witness spectacular lighting situations and beautiful displays of movement and color in the fog and clouds.
I was completely overwhelmed with the positive reaction it received when I released the video online. It really came as a surprise to me but it made me very happy that people seem to enjoy it as much as I do.
This only increased the pressure on me to hopefully create an even better short film with the newly released "Adrift"...
Thanks for watching!
Capturing the fog passing by
Spectacular light show over the city
Shot Breakdown
SHOT 1
SHOT 2
Name: OTD13_1
Length: 22sec
SHOT 3
Name: OTD9_1
Length: 33sec
SHOT 4
Name: OTD14_4
Length: 19sec
SHOT 5
Name: OTD6_1
Length: 27sec
SHOT 6
Name: JM1_1
Length: 41sec
SHOT 7
Name: OGG3_1
Length: 1min 01sec
SHOT 8
Name: MtTam1_1
Length: 1min 26sec
SHOT 9
Name: OTD3_1
Length: 1min 05sec
SHOT 10
Name: OTD13_9
Length: 22sec
SHOT 11
Name: OTD12_2
Length: 34sec
SHOT 12
Name: OTD13_5
Length: 25sec
SHOT 13
Name: OTD13_8
Length: 17sec
SHOT 14
Name: OTD10_2
Length: 39sec
SHOT 15
Name: OTD14_8
Length: 08sec
SHOT 16
Name: OTD3_1
Length: 1min 05sec
