Cinemagraphs Photos in Movement

Cinemagraphs are still images that contain within themselves living elements allowing a glimpse of time to be experienced and preserved. Cinemagraph is a technique of blending the effects of images and videos. It was introduced by a New York fashion photographer Jamie Beck, in collaboration with motion graphics designer Kevin Burg. Since then, many other designers have created similar forms of cinemagraphs. Cinemagraphs are typically simply created as animated .gif files making them easy to use on a web page. In this article, I feature stunning examples of cinemagraphs for your inspiration. Don’t scroll too fast if you want to experience the Cinemagraphs and look carefully – elements you don’t expect to move may do it…!  Source of text:  Tripwire Magazine.  Article by Justin Betonio

In order to make a cinemagraph, first of all, we must focus on one element so that we can create a coherent movement  once or several times.  Likewise, it is essential that the color schemes of the image that we record on video are not too many otherwise we will obtain results that will look like drawings instead of photographs.  

Two simple ways of making a cinemagraph

1.  With the use of the iPhone Cinemagram. In the App Store, we have found Cinemagram, a program that allows to create a cinemagraph in less than a minute with  an iPhone. We only have to record a secuence on video, or choose any saved previously in the phone, select the repeat time of the final image, indicate the area that we want to maintain as animated, apply a filter to the animation like those of the Instagram and we will obtain a cinemagraph similar to the above.  It cannot be any simpler.

 2. With the Use of Cliplets in  Windows.  This second option recommends the use of a free program called Microsoft Cliplets. Although we have not tried this, we have seen the help videos that are published in their web page and it does not seem complicated to use.  The only problem is that the result is not a gif file, but a video.  It seems that to maintain a link in movement in a web is not too easy.
Source of Previous images and text:  El País.com

Source of last two images:  Trip Magazine