Moving images
In this topic of photography I will be examining how making moving images through a camera is a big part of photography. We can use a camera to much moving images such as Gifs and films.
Eadweard Muybridge
He was born in Britain... in Kensington upon Thames, but after numerous plot lines and back storys' he moved to America in the early 1950's at the age of 25. His early family life included his Father, owning a grain and coal business space on the bottom floor of the families house. His father later dies, so him mum took over the business. He began, in America, (San Francisco, to be exact) working for a printing and publishing company. At the time, San Francisco was doing really well in the photography industry, with over a dozen photography studios across town. Which was a lot for the time.
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Edward Muybridge was a pioneer in creating moving images. He is more or less the inventor of filming moving images, by stitching together pictures he has taken and putting them together in a stop motion style manner. The image on the left was created when Muybridge made a buffalo run across an alleyway. When doing this the buffalo would simultaneously activate trip wires, which would therefore make a camera take pictures whilst the buffalo was running along the alleyway. It was a very ingenious idea... for the time, anyway.
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Creating Gifs
Gifs are a great thing. When you go on to tumblr, most of the images which are on it are generally Gifs. And I think the best thing about a Gif is the way you can make a Gif about pretty much anything, for instance you could create a Gif of your favourite line from a film or create a time lapse style on a Gif. In class we attempted to create our own, and both myself and my partner, Casper Marsh, really tried to be creative as possible. we came out with this Gif:
In fact, i have created a Tumblr especially dedicated to this Gif. Called The Amazing Shay Worm.
In fact, i have created a Tumblr especially dedicated to this Gif. Called The Amazing Shay Worm.
To improve this photo, however. I think my partner and myself could have improved the lighting, we foolishly ignored Mr Nicholl's advice (something I learnt that day you should never do), of filming our Gif in a well light area. The consequence of this meant that film came out with a not particularly nice graininess which you can see when looking at the picture. This is because the sensor for light isn't very good when using an Ipad (the device I used to make this Gif). The Iso sensor is not very good so the camera doesn't respond well when under a low amount of light.
Gif melter
I have even created a few Gif melters using technology off a website to make your own Gif melts, you can find by clicking the image below.
Time lapse
After creating GIF'S, we went on to focus on creating our own time lapse videos. A time lapse video is a long selection of photos which has been sped up. So an hours worth of footage, for instance, can be sped up to a short 5 minute clip. Casper, Sam and myself made out own which you can watch in the video below.
Very early examples of of time lapse include a video of a flower growing over time. The video was created in 1910 and was called a birth of a flower, and it was published by a man called Percy Smith but the actual video was filmed by his wife. The BFI summarises the video well, stating that "Mesmerising time -lapse photography captures the poetry of flowers opening their petals to the light." At the time of making this video, it was an exciting new idea which opened new doors to cinematographers alike.
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Another, more recent time lapse film, was recently featured in numerous art galleries. It was by Sam Taylor-Wood.
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