Monday 27 February 2012

Cinemagraphs. Next Step Photography.



Have you ever seen a photo move? Artists develop amazing cinemagraphs that take 'stills' to the next level

It is, in their own words, something more than a photo but less than a video.

Two artists have created a new way to to record your special moments - pictures with movement.

The cinemagraphs look like still photos but actually feature a subtle

 area of movement designed to grab your eye and keep you looking.

 The effect is slightly eerie - but utterly captivating.Hair-raising: Cinemagraphs may look like stills, 

but they feature a subtle area of movement designed to grab your eye.

 These animated photos are the work of Jamie Beck (pictured) and her fellow artist Kevin Burg

Turning a page: The cinemagraphs work by using GIFs, a type of picture format similar to a JPEG
 which has been around since the invention of home computers but has come into its 
own with broadband internet.In one shot of a crowded square, bodies are 
frozen in time, but one man quietly turns the pages of his newspaper
.Another photo of a restaurant terrace is brought to life by the reflection of a taxi going 
past in the window.And a picture of photographer Jamie Beck, one of the two behind
 the project, leaps off the screen when her hair starts to blow
 in a breeze.Miss Beck has worked with motion graphics artist Kevin Burg to
 make the cinemagraphs by using GIFs, a type of picture format similar to a 
JPEG which has been around since the invention of home computers.Only now
 with broadband internet are they bringing it to life with a startling effect.
Our cinemagraphs are a way of adding motion to a still image, Miss Beck said.


Not as simple as they look: The more complex animated photos take the artists an entire
 day to pull togetherIn most cases she shoots the photos and Mr Burg adds on motion-graphics
 over several hours of painstaking editing.The more complex ones take an entire day to pull 
together.New York-based Miss Beck told The Atlantic magazine: There's something magical
 about a still photograph - a captured moment in time - that can simultaneously exist outside
 the fraction of a second the shutter captures.We feel there are many exciting applications
 for this type of moving image.There's movement in everything and by capturing that plus
 the great things about a still photograph you get to experience what a video has to offer 
without the time commitment a video requires.She added that sharing websites such as
 Tumblr have been essential for helping them publish their work and getting them an audience.



Eerie effect: Cinemagraphs are calming to watch as only one area moves - and they are silent

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