A new photographic technique by Geoff Tompkinson, Hyperzooming, allows people to experience the exhilaration of travel and travel photography from a video, via stitching together a series of photographs on a special rig + post production. For the above video:
As if on the back of an invisible insect we fly around the sites of this wonderful town in one continuous journey passing through buildings to emerge in different parts of the town, finally ending up on the new viewpoint from Rudolfsturm perched high above the ancient town square. Those of you who know Hallstatt, as well as anyone who watches the video carefully, will appreciate that I have applied a little artistic licence to the geometry of the town in order to seamlessly link the locations. The footage was shot over a two day period but the post production, of course, took considerably longer.
Venice:
And Mexico City!
https://vimeo.com/138779545
More on Tompkinson’s website, where he describes his process:
Most of us are familiar with the use of zoom lenses in video. The focal length of the lens is smoothly changed to either zoom into or out-of a scene. The range of this zoom capability is defined by the focal length range of the lens being used to produce the image. HyperZoom™ is a different form of Zooming into or out-of a shot with virtually no restrictions to the range of the zoom.