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A photographer who took an epic trip starting from the southern tip of Europe all the way to northern Germany visited 10 cities and created 10 mesmerizing timelapses. <\/p>\n
Kirill Neiezhmakov pushes the boundaries of what is possible in hyperlapse and timelapse photography. For his trip across Europe, the Ukrainian photographer experimented with AI-generated video-to-video morphing transitions, creating head-spinning visuals that grab the viewer\u2019s attention. <\/p>\n
The first city Neiezhmakov visited was Seville in mid-July when the Andalusian capital was baking in 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit) heat. <\/p>\n
\u201cHunting for shadows just to set up my tripod became a daily ritual, and I quickly adopted the Spanish siesta tradition to wait out the worst of the afternoon heat,\u201d Neiezhmakov tells PetaPixel. \u201cSince this was the very first city, I was still figuring out the logistics and testing gear combinations on the fly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next up was Valencia. This is where Neiezhmakov developed his \u201cseamless flight\u201d visual concept, which became the signature of the entire series. <\/p>\n
For the AI morphing transitions, Neiezhmakov tried out three different AI image models: Pixverse, Kling, and Seedance 2.0.<\/p>\n
\u201cPixverse is capable of surprisingly creative and unexpected transitions,\u201d he explains. \u201cIts main downside is unpredictability \u2014 you can go many attempts without a usable result, and occasionally it produces bizarre artifacts.\u201d <\/p>\n
Neiezhmakov says that at one point, Pixverse randomly generated a white cat leaping out of a building window, flying down the street, and diving into a fountain. \u201cIt is, however, very affordable, which makes experimenting forgiving,\u201d he adds. <\/p>\n
By the French city of Lyon, Neiezhmakov switched to Kling for his transitions. \u201cKling follows prompts significantly more precisely, and with practice, I was able to write increasingly complex multi-part prompts describing the exact direction of motion, lighting changes, and architectural texture \u2014 and get a usable result on the first attempt far more often.\u201d <\/p>\n
While things were improving technically, Lyon was also the scene of a disaster when the bicycle he had been using to get around on was stolen on the first night. <\/p>\n
\u201cA full day lost to police reports and stress. But Lyon\u2019s free city bike system (V\u00e9lo\u2019v) saved the project,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n
For each city Neiezhmakov visited, he would put aside roughly three days for shooting. While there, he would capture between 40 and 60 sequences, with each sequence consisting of 150 to 300 frames. The entire trip resulted in several terabytes of data. <\/p>\n
But of course, shooting is just one part, then comes the editing. For each timelapse, the intrepid photographer spends two to three days processing the RAWs, color-grading, and stabilizing in After Effects. Then he spends a day or two searching for the right music, then a further two to three weeks for the full edit: assembly, AI morphing transition generation and selection, sound design, color finishing, and exporting.<\/p>\n
\u201cTotal post-production time per video was in the range of three to four weeks,\u201d he says. \u201cBy the later episodes, parts of the pipeline had become faster as my workflow matured \u2014 but the AI transition work actually grew more time-intensive as my prompts became more ambitious and complex.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis project was the most demanding undertaking I\u2019ve attempted as a solo self-funded creator,\u201d he continues. \u201cPhysically exhausting and financially draining \u2014 but invaluable as a learning experience in technique, AI tools, workflow, and resilience.\u201d <\/p>\n
Throughout the trip, Neiezhmakov used a Laowa 15mm f\/4.5 Zero-D Shift lens<\/a> to combat the perspective distortion typically found in architectural photography. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen you tilt a normal wide-angle lens upward to capture a tall building, the vertical lines converge \u2014 the classic \u2018falling buildings\u2019 effect,\u201d he explains. <\/p>\n \u201cCorrecting this in post-production means cropping the image significantly, which is costly when you\u2019re already working with a compressed RAW sequence. The shift lens solves this optically: by physically shifting the lens element upward, I keep the sensor plane perfectly parallel to the building facade and include the full height of the structure without any perspective distortion and without losing a single pixel of resolution.\u201d <\/p>\n With his lens working well, Neiezhmakov had gear problems elsewhere: his replacement bicycle was stolen while in Rotterdam. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d owned the replacement for barely a week when it disappeared from a busy bike rack in broad daylight. It was a serious blow to my morale.\u201d <\/p>\n Most of the photos Neiezhmakov takes are a four to five-second exposure, creating smooth, fluid motion trails of the people and cars in the shot. It\u2019s why he uses a tripod. <\/p>\n \u201cA gimbal cannot hold steady at these shutter speeds; any micro-correction movement it makes appears as a smear or shake in the frame at exposures longer than roughly half a second,\u201d he explains. <\/p>\n He also uses a Vertecfoto GH-V5 geared head to precisely re-align the camera so that the same reference point sits in exactly the same position in the frame as the previous shot.<\/p>\n \u201cThe process works like this: I set up my tripod, identify a fixed reference point on a building \u2014 a window edge, a corner, a lamp post \u2014 take a photo, then physically move the tripod a short, consistent distance forward (typically 15\u201330cm depending on the desired speed),\u201d he says. <\/p>\n \u201cThe tripod-plus-geared-head combination remains, in my view, the only way to achieve this specific aesthetic in a moving hyperlapse.\u201d <\/p>\n More of Neiezhmakov\u2019s work can be found on his YouTube<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n Image creditsPhotographs by Kirill Neiezhmakov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photographer who took an epic trip starting from the southern tip of Europe all the way to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[4917,141045,365,362,363,364,366,18,117,1015,246370,19,17,246371,89206,1801,86418,32239],"class_list":["post-579163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-amsterdam","tag-architecturalphotography","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-europe","tag-hyperlapse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kirillneiezhmakov","tag-motion","tag-project","tag-timelapse","tag-trip"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116897357466023992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Kirill-800x600.jpeg\")
Kirill shooting in Brussels. <\/p>\n