Static or Still?

In Design, Photography, Surreal on February 3, 2012 at 11:12 am

Image source: From me to you

This is neither a photograph nor a video- it is called a Cinemagraph. Coined by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg (http://cinemagraphs.com/), it is a clever gif-animation produced with several high resolution photographs. The technique creates a somewhat still photograph with subtle moving elements, giving the photograph a very dream-like soft quality to it, and sometimes, such as the instance above, a slightly creepy but surreal feeling. Time seems to have stopped in these cinemagraphs and plays like a repeated memory. It is so impressive at sneakily catching people when they least expect it- what seems to be a normal still photograph at first, is actually moving.

Many photographers have taken to producing a few cinemagraphs of their own, but here are some interesting ones that I have seen.

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