Micro-video, loops, "gif" style photography.

[paulca]

I've seen this done, it's hard to find examples of it and hard to find out if it has a style name, so I'll do my best.

Consider a drone shot where the drone is stationary, shooting 4K of a beach for 5 seconds. Just enough to carefully stabilise and loop in the video editor. Initially the viewer sees a photo, but then quickly notices the waves are in fact moving, still rolling onto the shore.

A more complex example which I seen somewhere. Consider a portrait of a lady in a garden sitting on a swing, the subject looks frozen in frame as an action shot, but the background is allowed to move, just enough to portray the ambience, like the grass moving in the wind or a bird flapping.

I know the concept of a "GIF" is well established but it's just a medium that can be used to distribute this type of "photography".

Does it have a name?

Anyone know where to get more info on it? I think with the richer and richer media formats we use, I can see this kind of thing becoming more and more common.

Living photos?

Paul

 

[Nod]

Don't eye pads do that? Pretty sure a mate showed me some pics of his dog that did something similar.

 

[TCR4x4]

Lots of phone apps do it. Usually call them cinemagraphs, living image, live photo.

It's a bit of a gimmick imo and often looks awfull.

 

[TCR4x4]

Don't eye pads do that? Pretty sure a mate showed me some pics of his dog that did something similar.

You are thinking of 3d images where the subject kinda pops out from the background when your move the phone. Different concept to what the op is describing.

 

[paulca]

Lots of phone apps do it. Usually call them cinemagraphs, living image, live photo.

It's a bit of a gimmick imo and often looks awfull.

Thanks.

I can imagine the phone apps producing gimmicky results, that's what phone apps do, create cheap little dopamine hits for zoomers and millennials; they just scroll on by looking for more hits. Attention spans shorter than gold fish.

I don't think it's too gimmicky an idea in itself, even if the implementations are.

 

[Nod]

You are thinking of 3d images where the subject kinda pops out from the background when your move the phone. Different concept to what the op is describing.

Mrs Nod remembers better than me and tells me that there was a second or so of video that ended with a still image.

As you say, looks gimmicky.

 

[TCR4x4]

Mrs Nod remembers better than me and tells me that there was a second or so of video that ended with a still image.

As you say, looks gimmicky.

Ah, that’s their stupid Live Photo, that’s actually just a 3 second video. Pointless.

 

[paulca]

I think in some instances it would be just a small loop. Like instead of a static photo of a field, you capture the iinherent motion by recording a 1second or half second video and render it as a progressive GIF, it just adds a whole other layer to what is effectively a photo.

Instagram may already loop short videos. Other than that, I'm not sure if GIF would be happy with a 1080p or 4K "image" or if it would play properly.

Things like having a static subject with a moving background would probably require some masking and layering a video background minus the subject + the still image of the subject composited in. However the ones I seen were very effective.

I mean the moving scenery ones I can probably do. Maybe I'll pick through some drone footage and find/make some examples.

 

[ancient_mariner]

This seems to come in phases, but there's often quite a few like that over on ello.co (not much at the moment) - perhaps it's the grumpy old man coming out, but I generally find it an irritating effect.

 

[CavGez]

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