A couple of winters ago, Ross Ching, a Los Angeles-based photographer, traveled around the western United States shooting landscape photos of the deserts.
“It’s amazing how many beautiful places you’ll come across when you go exploring without any real direction (luckily my iPhone kept me from getting lost),” he writes on his website. “I knew the general areas that I wanted to visit – very touristy areas. But when I ventured off the beaten paths it was as if a whole different world opened up. Some places seemed like the surface of Mars and I was the only person in a 50 mile radius.”
The video above stitches together 15,000 still shots (taken with a Canon 40D) to create dramatic time-lapse effects. Ching used a tilt-shift lens that rotated the depth of field to create a “fake miniature” effect that makes large objects look like small scale models. The result is very cool.
