a simply incredible short film

As a new camera owner I have dabbled with making shutter speed, aperture, and all the other technicalities that come with making good film. Sam O'Hare's short film "Sandpit" is an example of mastering such crafts. At first you may believe it to be made with minature models, but his shots are real life. He explains exactly how he did it, but ill let you watch his astounding film first

 (worth the wait to full screen, HD this video)


  
"It is shot on a Nikon D3 (and one shot on a D80), as a series of stills. I used my Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 and Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 lenses for all of these shots. Most were shot at 4fps in DX crop mode, which is the fastest the D3 could continuously write out to the memory card. The boats had slower frame rates, and the night shots used exposures up to two seconds each. […] I shot over 35,000 [stills]. I did some initial tests a while back using a rented 24mm tilt-shift lens, which is the standard way to do this. However, after my tests, I found it made much more sense to do this effect in post, rather than in camera […] The entire shoot was completed in 5 days and two evenings, during the hottest week of August 2009."