Summer. Wahey!
Time to pretend I didn’t do exams and that I don’t have results waiting. Apply to all the internships! I’ve been getting my creative hat out and playing around with a few new things. Cinemagraphs have been the talk on a lot of sites for the past few months. The idea is where you take a still image, and add life to it with subtle movement. It’s important that the image itself holds as a photograph and that the animation you apply is subtle, so it’s not just an animated gif. It takes some fiddling around in Photoshop to get some really nice masks and the more time you take to prep the shot, the better it’ll look. Here’s a couple of examples of ones I did from my iPhone. Just rough and quick attempts, though I’m planning on getting out the tripod and Canon to really making some impressive ones!


I think they turned out pretty well. There’s something strangely mesmerizing about it, and I love how it incorporates a lot of photographic principles with some animation and photo editing skill.
Also, I wrote previously about making a video for a presentation I was doing. Well that’s done, and presented, so I shall leave you with this. It’s somewhat tongue in cheek, as is apparent, but fun nonetheless. It’s very dubstep, it’s very over the top, and it was very fun to make. So, make of it what you will, I suppose: