It's a job that's taken him around the world and land roles with some of the world's biggest names.

In the last 12 months alone, Tom Chambers has worked on videos for PlayStation, Xbox, the BBC and Channel 4.

The modest 28-year-old has also worked with stars including Ed Sheeran, Example and Calvin Harris as he built up his career as a videographer and photographer.

But a specialism in hyperlapse - where a a sequence of images are skillfully put together to create an illusion of a passage of time - has led him to become sought-after by industry giants.

He posted Hyperlapse London on Facebook at the start of 2017 and hasn't looked back.

Tom's interest in photography started, aged 11, when he won his first camera in a draw after completing a survey about Alston Moor, where he lived.

Throughout school he started to perfect his skills. He got better cameras and began photographing parties at the Coach House, at Heads Nook, and gigs at the Brickyard, in Carlisle's Fisher Street.

He continued to photograph gigs and nights out while studying in Brighton and was soon paid for his work, meaning he could quit his job at a call centre.

In 2009, during his first year at university, Tom photographed dance artist Example for a project over four days.

He's since toured with the star five or six times and has been lucky enough to meet Ed Sheeran and Calvin Harris along the way.

"[Ed] was supporting Example before he became this ridiculously massive star," recalled Tom.

The former William Howard School pupil came straight out of his media studies degree to work for four years at London-based production company Popkorn.

There he was given a mass of opportunities which saw him travel to Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Peru.

"It was absolutely incredible, the fact that they were happy to trust me to get the shots," he said.

While working on Channel 5's Killers Behind Bars he was already using hyperlapse skills.

"That was before I really knew what I was doing at all and it worked quite well," said Tom.

"That's kind of where it started and then I didn't do any more of it for a long time."

But he wanted to know how to perfect the technique, and discovered the key was to have an anchor point.

Tom, who has also worked on Discovery's Gold Rush , soon realised there was a niche he could work in and within hours of posting the London video on Facebook had bagged himself a job with Xbox.

He was down to start shooting a piece for the launch of the game Halo Wars 2: Instant Hero by the following Monday morning.

His hyperlapse work, alongside painter and good friend Jim Vision, was then picked up by Sony and used in a trailer for the PS4 game Nioh.

Within a month-and-a-half Tom had also worked on a piece for Google Play Store, featuring a mural being painted on the side of a building.

"It has been an interesting year," he said. "I can't believe it to be honest.

"It was great to have people contact me. It was really cool that people wanted it and wanted to pay me for it."

Tom went freelance in 2015 and set up his company TC Shoot Me the following year.

Hyperlapse London, which he shot in December 2016, remains one of his favourite pieces of work.

The video is a culmination of more than 3,500 images put together in a sequence. The camera is moved in between each frame to a new position, which shows the passage of time when the images comes together on a timeline.

"It was good fun because I was doing the same filming jobs and photography jobs I had been doing for years. This was something a bit more niche," he said.

"I just wanted to find something I could do that other people didn't know how to do when you show them.

"I started getting all these other jobs coming in.

"It's a very competitive business and that is why I have been forced to be even more creative."