Photograph by Jamie Beck, animation by Kevin Burg
Have you spotted these stunning cinematic gifs popping up all over the internet recently?
They are being created by a New York photographer, Jamie Beck, and her partner Kevin Burg. This is their website.
I fell in love with those pictures, like everyone else who has seen them.
Photograph by Jamie Beck, animation by Kevin Burg
I am no fancy photographer but I did want to do a living Harry Potter-image of myself on my new website, just for fun.
So after some searching I found this great tutorial that explains how to do it in Photoshop.
And then I did it!
In the larger, original version of this picture I copied the earring a few times and pasted it again in new layers. Then I rotated the layers and changed the lightfall on the earring accordingly. All in all I had five layers, and the earring swayed satisfyingly. But it wasn’t too impressive or much fun. So i decided to just have the earring tick like a clock. Just two frames and minor movement. I wonder if visitors will spot it, but I hope they will laugh when they do.
When the frames were done I downsized them to 150 pixels, followed the tutorial, uploaded the animated gif to Photobucket, grabbed the html-code and pasted it in the sidebar widget that holds my picture. For a Blogger blog you have to do the same thing – blogger does not allow you to upload animated gifs directly.
Send me a link as soon as yours is up!
Or let me know if you have thought of other fun photo effects – life being serious enough as it is!
First I’ve seen them but how cool! And even more amazing that you did it! Very impressive. Don’t know if I should even attempt it, too much on my plate right now. I will bookmark it though! Can you imagine fluttering textiles on a wall?! I can see your portraits, with eyes going left and right.
Ha ha, I think I will leave the portraits alone. A fluttering quilt or boro however would be most appealing. I will make a picture like that for you! If you can put your camera on a tripod and take a series of pictures while the piece moves.. however slightly.. do you have the right camera for that? It will be fun! I can make you a big one for on the blog and a thumbnail for in your sidebar.
Ha Kitty, what a coincidence, I just found this website yesterday. So great and subtle these gifs. I like yours too! By the way great new website!
Thanks Nelleke! You are doing fine, too!
Yes, those photo´s are so nice! And well done for your own piece of work!