Just back from another adventure in Japan, Gavin Heffernan is helping to keep the art of timelapse photography alive.
“Shot in Shibuya, Tokyo and Yokohama, March 2024. Canon 6D. Lenses Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L, Rokinon 12mm f2.8, Canon EF 24-105mm. The street light painting or “street stacking” effect was done with long exposure images stacked using StarStax, a program I usually use to create star trail images for night sky work for Skyglow Project,” Gavin Heffernan said on his latest timelapse project set in Japoan.
The dog statue at 1:35 is the beloved Hachiko, a local legend in Shibuya Square who used to meet his owner at the station every day after work, then continued to go every day for nine years after his owner died in 1925.
Meanwhile, the giant robot at 2:06 is a 60 foot tall, 55,000 lbs recreation of the RX-78-2 Gundam, the hero mech of the original Mobile Suit Gundam series. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it’s the largest mobile Humanoid Robot in the world and the largest mobile Gundam.
This is the follow-up to last year’s DREAMLAPSE JAPAN, so make sure to watch that too if you missed it.
