A nice little photography shooting challenge posted on Gizmodo this morning got me interested in looking into Cinema-graph (Cinemagraph?) work. Any old school ’90s web developer remember those animated GIFs right? Basically the same type of work but just done with photoshop masking as well.
I personally think this effect works best when people are are frozen in the frame, OR when there’s just really subtle movement that makes you think, “Did I just see that move?”
Jamie Beck’s work shows some mastery of this effect. There’s a nice collection of “28 still photos with subtle motion too” (via Hongkiat)
Now I know what my next personal photo challenge will be!
LoweStudio Inc was founded by me, Raphael Lowe, a Honolulu based illustrator and web designer. I presently design and manage a few dozen commercial websites, but my main focus these days is acting as the head developer for Kapiolani Community College and teaching