Airdate: Tales by Light
National Geographic offers an insight into the eyes and minds of photographers - shot in 4K.
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Next month National Geographic offers a rare insight into the eyes and minds of photographers with the series Tales by Light.
Shot in 4K resolution, the 6 part series follows five photographers including Australian underwater and nature photographer Darren Jew.
Uniting exploration, photography and the natural world, Tales by Light offers a rare glimpse into the eyes and minds of some of Australia and the world’s best photographic storytellers.
Shot in stunning 4K resolution, the six-part television series follows five extraordinary photographers as they push the limits of their craft in little-known, little-covered and little-understood corners of the Earth. Experience the challenges, successes and moments of joy as these masters of their fields work to capture their unique perspective.
Driven by an insatiable desire to explore cultures, wildlife and landscapes through the camera’s lens, they blur the lines between art and photography, showing us our world in a new light.
“It has been a privilege for me as a filmmaker to be able to document these amazing photographers as they travel the world for their craft,” says Canon Master and series producer, Abraham Joffe. “My dream as a boy was to travel the world with a camera or two in my hands. This project has been a fulfilment of that dream.”
Tales by Light │ Submerged
Sunday 24 May at 8.30pm AEST
World-renowned Australian underwater and nature photographer Darren Jew captures a Humpback Whale mating chase in Tonga and the 70-year-old wreck of a Mitsubishi Bi-Plane and active volcano in Papua New Guinea.
Tales by Light │ Tribes
Sunday 31 May at 8.30pm AEST
Legendary nature and cultural photographer Art Wolfe captures the famous mud men and the Huli people in Papua New Guinea, and works on his human canvas project with the Surma people of Ethiopia.
Tales by Light │ Adrenaline
Sunday 7 June at 8.30pm AEST
Prominent adventure sports photographer Krystle Wright captures the immersive world of free-diving in Vanuatu, athletes who appear to walk on air in the canyons of Colorado, and powered para-gliders on the flooded salt pans of Utah.
Tales by Light │ Wild
Sunday 14 June at 8.30pm AEST
Legendary nature and cultural photographer Art Wolfe captures the great brown bear with the stunning backdrop of Alaska’s mountains and glaciers, immigrating wildebeests in the plains East Africa, and the hard-to-find gorillas of Uganda.
Tales by Light │ Himalaya
Sunday 21 June at 8.30pm AEST
Masterful travel photographer Richard l’Anson captures an important religious festival and the Tigers of Bandhavgarh in the Himalayas, followed by the exuberant Festival of Holi in India.
Tales by Light │ Panorama
Sunday 28 June at 8.30pm AEST
Leading landscape photographer Peter Eastway follows in the footsteps of Frank Hurley – the pioneering Australian photographer on Shackleton’s expedition to the south a century ago – to capture the wilderness and wildlife of Antarctica and South Georgia.
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Was also going to be shot in 3d but that idea died with the format.
Well lets put it this way if the HD is taken from the 4k version it should be great HD very clean,and super sharp
It’s a shame Nat Geo can’t broadcast it in 4K UHD, but sounds like a great series none the less.
If my knowledge is correct, although the series is shot in 4K it will only be shown in HD given at this time there is no linear TV channel in the world that screens 4K? So unless Nat Geo plans to on-sell this to an IPTV provider like Netflix who can stream 4K it is pointless for them to promote it being filmed in 4K given currently there is no other way to watch 4K (I believe 4K Blu Rays and Blu Ray players are coming out late this year?).
I’m not yet aware of it being broadcast in 4K, but this is the first production I can recall being shot in 4K to air in Australia, so definitely worth a mention.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup was filmed in 4K and broadcast that way solely in Japan; the 2015 SuperBowl used 6 4K cameras for close ups which were then down-converted/cropped for HD broadcast; all new series that have been produced by Netflix are filmed in 4K (it’s not broadcast television but it is television nevertheless); and I believe Amazon started converting or filming some of its series in 4K (one of which was Alpha House which has aired on SoHo in HD). That’s all the examples I can think of atm but I’m sure there are more.