Running On Empty by Ross Ching
“What if tomorrow, everyone’s car disappeared?”
‘Running on Empty’ is a concept video by the Los Angeles-based Ross Ching inspired by Matt Logue’s ‘Empty LA’ photography set.
Three years ago, I created my first time lapse experiment. Back then, it was extremely hard to come across any useful information on time lapse photography. It seemed to have been a “market” not yet saturated, so I jumped at the opportunity. That was Eclectic. Not to toot my own horn, but in my opinion it was something different. Granted time lapse photography has been around for decades, but I feel that the practice has reinvented itself in recent years with the DSLRs more commonplace.
Today, anyone with a DSLR and a timer can do time lapse photography. To me, it now seems to be on the same level of that person who calls him/herself a professional photographer but only knows how to push the button and blur out the background.
Spectacular time lapse pieces have sprung up all over the internet. I have even developed some awesome relationships with some of the creators. However, the majority of them seem very similar — like they should be on the Discovery Channel or in a visitor center. There needs to be originality. There needs to be pioneers. There needs to be something more than beautiful shots. There needs to be a human element. There needs to be a story.
Congestion is certainly an issue of real contention in LA with countless complaints scattered through the web daily. Ross, being a resident of the city of boundless sprawl, was so intrigued by the notion of a car-empty LA that he captured time-lapse shots of the major roadways when they were empty. He poses this question:
What would that scene look like? How would people react? How quickly would the atmosphere rebound from centuries of fossil fuel emissions?
For a full tutorial on how Ross masked the cars out of shots, visit his webpage: here.
I looooved matt logues stuff too so inspiring
This was amazing. It mustve taken a hell of alotta work to put this together. Masking is no easy thing
Don't mean to be rude.. but the tutorial on his site that Charlie mentioned in the post actually outlines how it is actually quite a straight forward job - time, resource and technical expertise dependent of course
This was amazing. It mustve taken a hell of alotta work to put this together. Masking is no easy thing
Don't mean to be rude.. but the tutorial on his site that Charlie mentioned in the post actually outlines how it is actually quite a straight forward job - time, resource and technical expertise dependent of course
I looooved matt logues stuff too so inspiring
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