I like this D, for those of us who do not even know how this trick works, its on point.
Would like to learn this sorta stuff, its a new direction for one who is tired of the same stuff we post on 75.
My first Cinemagraph
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12h43,
23rd
May
2011
Some of you might know about Cinemagraphs by now. Beautiful animated gifs. Well, I tried my first and it's not a masterpiece by a long mile, but it's okay.
1) It's huge. (2 MB)
2) I shot the footage hand-held. This is Bad(tm). I had to use the motion stabilisation function in After Effects to remove the shake. Lesson learnt: use a tripod.
3) I overestimated the dynamic range of the video my 5D takes. Unlike shooting still in RAW where you have ~14bits of dynamic range, with the video what you see on the camera display is pretty much what you get. So a portion of my video is overexposed.
Well... here it is.
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lebogang nkoane
Its too quick – I think the movement is supposed to be subtle, but yeah, I've been trying to figure out how and of what to do.
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Diaan
I'm not a big fan of the "it's supposed to be..." school of thought. :P
For me this one is in any case just a proof of concept, which is why I'm not putting it on my blog. Once I'm a bit better at it I will.
For those who want to know how, read this: http://www.tested.com/news/how-to-make-your-own-cinemagraphs-a-new-take-on-gifs/2253/
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lebogang nkoane
Diaan true, but, that's what got the "cinemagraph" to be, special, not quite moving pictures, not quite still pictures — somewhere in between.
If the movement is 'fast', it appears to the 'eye' as an animated gif of a 'moving picture', instead of a still image with moving parts in it.
But, yeah — lets see what you do with it. As soon as I get free time, i'll dabble in it, one day, one day.
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Diaan
I see we have a cinemagraph purist in the making. ;)
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lebogang nkoane
lol
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Diaan
Anyway... who's going to make one too? Consider this a challenge.
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lebogang nkoane
I will — time allowing;
*enter new challenger* (what game was that: street fighter?)
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Jeff Rikhotso
Will give it a shot, i like challenges.
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Diaan
A second one: http://dreamfoundry.co.za/file/lighthouse.gif
The image is a 3-shot HDR of the light house, with some video brought in for the light beams.
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Jeff Rikhotso
I love it man.
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Diaan
ps. That strange shadow on the lighthouse just under the red painted area is from light shining through the balustrade of an adjacent hotel.
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lebogang nkoane
I like the lighthouse one!
*sips more wine, :-)
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Diaan
Oh, PS, I've updated my blog to have a high-res version of the animation. http://dreamfoundry.co.za/6356
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Diaan
@LN, if we upload animated GIFS to the site will they get nuked to one frame or can the components you use to scale the images cope with the animation?
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lebogang nkoane
I don't know — but I think via notes you can upload .gif's ( to the right of the note writing there is 'library // upload // embed' - upload should work )
uploading to your graph-space, shouldn't work by design, only jpegs are accepted, i think, last time I checked.
*ps: who is LK? He sounds gangsta :-)
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Diaan
Ahem. You meant @LN, right? ;)
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lebogang nkoane
LOL!
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Mphela
I see what you mean about the tripod, but #idig...I'v been trying to figure the best way to produce this effect too, and i had a crazy thought, the ones that look good, are the ones where, the movement is directed, like a model standing with hair flowing, similar cars passing on a street corner etc!!!
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