Chicago Timelapse | Merchandise Mart, Navy Pier, Museum Campus

This is my last week in Chicago. I made this timelapse video as a farewell to this beautiful city, before I head to the Golden State.

Here's how I made this video:
✔️ I shot the entire footage with a smartphone camera (Moto Z2 Force). I captured individual frames as a sequence of full-resolution pictures then converted them into a video. I used the following script as an intervalometer: goo.gl/kapWvi
✔️ I used a very basic flexible tripod and further stabilized the video in post-processing.
✔️ I used a bilateral filter for spatial smoothing and a median filter for temporal smoothing. This helped reduce the noise, particularly in the low-light scenes.
✔️ Finally, I did some color grading and levels adjustment for a cinematic look.

Views from:
📌 Wolf Point West
📌 Museum Campus (Shedd Aquarium and Adler Planetarium)
📌 Navy Pier

🎵 Music by Joakim Karud youtube.com/joakimkarud

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