Sea Level Rise - 2.5 Seconds - BTS & Editing timelapse

Sea Level Rise
"2.5 Seconds" climate change awareness series
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As humans continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, oceans have tempered the effect. The world's seas have absorbed more than 90 percent of the heat from these gases, but it’s taking a toll on our oceans: 2018 set a new record for ocean heating.

Rising seas is one of those climate change effects. Average sea levels have risen over 8 inches (about 23 cm) since 1880, with about a third of that gained in the last 25 years.

Sea level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the added water from melting ice sheets and glaciers and the expansion of seawater as it warms.

When sea levels rise as rapidly as they have been, even a small increase can have devastating effects on coastal habitats, it can cause destructive erosion, flooding, soil contamination with salt, and lost habitat for fish, birds, and plants. Higher sea levels are cause more deadly and destructive hurricanes that move more slowly and drop more rain, contributing to more powerful storm surges that can strip away everything in their path.

Already, flooding in low-lying coastal areas is forcing people to migrate to higher ground, and millions more are vulnerable from flood risk and other climate change effects. In the United States, almost 40 percent of the population lives in relatively high population-density coastal areas, where sea level plays a role in flooding, shoreline erosion, and hazards from storms. Most predictions say the warming of the planet will continue and is likely to accelerate, causing the oceans to keep rising. It is projected to rise another 1 to 4 feet by 2100. This means hundreds of coastal cities face flooding.
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The idea behind this concept is because the sea level has risen a lot of populated areas are getting flooded. In this scene we see a person anxiously sitting on a rooftop, the surroundings are flooded, only tops of the buildings are showing up and there are belongings floating in the water.

This photograph was probably the trickiest of all. I wasn’t sure how it will turn out until the moment I went back to New York and started editing. This time I couldn’t rely on the props really and the set up was beyond my control. Nonetheless, I still prepared.

For this concept, I had a perfect location in mind. Seljavallalaug Swimming Pool is an outdoor swimming pool in south Iceland surrounded by beautiful landscapes. It's open to the public with no admission fee, there are no fences or administration. It is filled with hot water and you can swim there. So it’s a pretty famous tourist attraction. It has a small changing room on the background and a piece of a white brick wall in the foreground. I couldn’t really build a setup and flood the area. So my only hope was to be able to use my editing skills and turn the white wall into the house, a piece of spray-painted cardboard into its rooftop and use the pool as a base for the flooded area.

Right after we arrived in Iceland we went to local Ikea and I borrowed some used shipping boxes. The night before the photoshoot I did my best and turned them into a resemblance of a rooftop and spray painted it. We also brought some stuff that we turned into floating belongings like suitcase and dinnerware. My team including my model dived into the pool and held those things so they won’t sink. So I had to shoot them separately. The cardboard rooftop didn’t quite work out as I expected so I used a stock photo of the roof. Nonetheless, it gave me a great base for shape, color, shadows, and highlights. It's a pretty popular spot so I had to photoshop some people out. The changing room worked out perfectly for a flooded building in the background. It took me over 4 hours to edit this photograph and I’m proud how it turned out. I exceeded even my own expectations.
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