Moving images
It’s refreshing to see something that makes you appreciate traditional photographic imagery, with a twist. The bridge between still frame photography and video is a long one, but this style of ‘cinemagraph’ is quite haunting beautiful. Created by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg, these animated GIFs are deceptively simple, but amazingly cinematic. Normal GIFs often are too speedy to be beautiful, but these slowed down, more subtle applications trick the viewer into thinking that they are looking at a still image. In a recent article, the pair delve deeper into these cinemagraphs:
‘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. 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.’ cinemagraphs.com