Pictures Brought to Life

Something that is more than a photo but is less than a video. This is the concept behind CINEMAGRAPHS, still photos with elements of movement developed by NYC photographers Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg. I am not into photography (not even close) but the moment I saw samples of their work, I was blown away! It was so beautifully created and kinda reminded me of the Wizarding World photos (read: Muggles), hehe.

As you can see in the sample photos below, Jamie and Kevin combined both still and moving images in a fantastically unusual way -- taking beautiful photographs and turning them into something that rests comfortably between photography and video.

If you will notice, they retain all of the exquisite composure of still photographs but add a surprising bit of motion that is absolutely mesmerizing.
To be honest, at first it creeped me out -- who would expect that a what-appeared to be a still photo would actually move! But then, once you get used to it -- you will be left in awe and be amazed by this genious work of art.


Photos are presented through highbrow GIFs, a file format that used to annoy us with all those little animated videos (MySpace glitter unicorns anyone??) na paulit-ulit!! Now, we will never look at .GIF the same way again thanks to these amazing photographers! :)




A step-by-step guide for photographers is available online for those who wants to try their hands on cinemagraphy. I would, but I can barely even edit a picture on Photoshop, so wag nalang -- hehe.






So, what do you guys think? "High-brow" or cheap trick? :)

Source: http://weburbanist.com/