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xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

Some of those gifs aren't too bad.. I kind of like the taxi reflection one. And I really like the one of the guy reading the newspaper (until you look too closely at the animation, and it looks pretty fake).

Most of them are just girls with blowing hair, which is pretty lame if you ask me.

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Paragon8: Feb 19, 2007

rear end is my canvas posted:

http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/tagged/cinemagraph/page/1

tee hee

As twee as most of those are that kind of thing is going to absolutely explode in the weddings/engagement type markets.

# ? May 2, 2011 15:29

Moist von Lipwig: Oct 28, 2006; by FactsAreUseless; Tortured By Flan

Paragon8 posted:

As twee as most of those are that kind of thing is going to absolutely explode in the weddings/engagement type markets.

Oh god you're right, I wonder if these would work in digital picture frames. That would actually be drat cool.

# ? May 2, 2011 15:36

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
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Moist von Lipwig posted:

Oh god you're right, I wonder if these would work in digital picture frames. That would actually be drat cool.

Is there a digital frame out there with APNG support? Be nice not to have 256-colour dithered wedding pics

# ? May 2, 2011 15:42

evil_bunnY: Apr 2, 2003

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Is there a digital frame out there with APNG support? Be nice not to have 256-colour dithered wedding pics

All you need is glitter gifs

# ? May 2, 2011 16:26

Bape Culture: Sep 13, 2006

Holy poo poo that newspaper one is amazing. How did he make gifs without all everything going weird? Mine always go to poo poo quality.

Oh man I really want to do it. How though? Is it from video? Or some ridiculous fast shots?

Bape Culture fucked around with this message at 17:04 on May 2, 2011

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xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

A5H posted:

Holy poo poo that newspaper one is amazing. How did he make gifs without all everything going weird? Mine always go to poo poo quality.

Oh man I really want to do it. How though? Is it from video? Or some ridiculous fast shots?

Probably just buffered shots, cutting the parts they want animated out and compositing them over a base image. I assume some manual pixel pushing is done to smooth things out.

They've been getting some media attention lately, look up "Kevin Burg" if you want. Here, he claims the intricate ones take 'about a day' to make:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/how-jamie-beck-and-kevin-burg-create-their-animated-gifs/237404/

# ? May 2, 2011 17:16

RangerScum: Apr 6, 2006; lol hey there buddy

That'd be perfect for that lovely online edition of Vogue they did. I do like the photos/animations though... very well done.

# ? May 2, 2011 17:19

ThisQuietReverie: Jul 22, 2004; I am not as I was.

The only way those would be any creepier is if the heads started spinning. The frozen smile on the brownie pouring one looks like it could be a "Black Hole Sun" insert.

# ? May 2, 2011 17:51

ass is my canvas: Jun 7, 2003; comin' down the street

http://www.labnol.org/software/video-as-animated-gif/18160/

Here's a tutorial I found.

# ? May 2, 2011 18:04

Beastruction: Feb 16, 2005

Here's one that does it with movie frames: http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/

xzzy posted:

Probably just buffered shots, cutting the parts they want animated out and compositing them over a base image. I assume some manual pixel pushing is done to smooth things out.

Doesn't continuous shooting top out at like 10fps on the best cameras, and wouldn't that make for visibly choppy motion?

# ? May 2, 2011 18:17

GWBBQ: Jan 2, 2005

It would look choppy, but around 6fps is where the brain starts to interpret it as motion rather than a series of discrete images.

# ? May 2, 2011 18:19

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

Beastruction posted:

Doesn't continuous shooting top out at like 10fps on the best cameras, and wouldn't that make for visibly choppy motion?

Yes, but I think they do a lot of massaging of the animation. They have a few gifs on their blog that look like they used the lasso tool and copied it to a new layer, so I doubt they're above creating new data where they need it.

# ? May 2, 2011 18:51

atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Beastruction posted:

Here's one that does it with movie frames: http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/

Doesn't continuous shooting top out at like 10fps on the best cameras, and wouldn't that make for visibly choppy motion?

that's when you switch to a movie camera :smug:

# ? May 2, 2011 19:39

William T. Hornaday: Nov 26, 2007; Don't tap on the fucking glass!
I swear to god I'll cut off your fucking fingers and feed them to the otters for enrichment.

I find those incredibly creepy, in the almost the exact same way that I found Myst/Riven incredibly creepy.

# ? May 3, 2011 03:06

Spedman: Mar 12, 2010; Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

rear end is my canvas posted:

http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/tagged/cinemagraph/page/1

tee hee

I was just trying to figure out how to make one of those myself for a little bit of fun: http://fernandojbaez.com/cinemagraph-tutorial/

# ? May 3, 2011 07:39

BobTheCow: Dec 11, 2004; That's a thing?

East Lake posted:

From the nytimes site, not sure who took it but I'm sure he/she is glad they did!

This was shot by Michael Appleton, and I actually prefer the slightly less-cropped version, so you can see that they're sitting along the ladder of their truck with crowds gathered below them:

Good post explaining how he got this photo on the New York Times photo blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/firefighters-gather-for-news-of-bin-laden/

quote:

Firefighters Gather for News of Bin Laden
By DAVID W. DUNLAP

Michael Appleton managed to bridge a decade in a single photograph on Sunday night.

His perfectly distilled picture showed the firefighters of Ladder Company 4 � which lost seven men on 9/11 � perched together on their aerial ladder, watching a news bulletin in Times Square declaring that Osama bin Laden was dead. Though their backs were to the camera, the men�s body language spoke eloquently, beginning with Firefighter Stassi�s obvious exultation. �Each individual has his own reaction,� Mr. Appleton said. �One is celebrating. Others are about to embrace. They�re tight. They�re close.

�It�s like the weight is off their shoulders, perched up there, enjoying each other�s company, shoulder to shoulder. And it was over very quickly.�

Like most of the best news photographs, Mr. Appleton�s composition was the product of pure luck and the experience � and the sharp eyes � to know what to do when such good fortune comes along. Asked by The Times to get himself to Times Square for President Obama�s announcement on Sunday, Mr. Appleton found a somewhat mellow mood at about 10:30 p.m., as news of the killing was not yet generally known. As the president began to speak, however, the crowd grew larger and more attentive.

�There was a crescendo when the Fire Department showed up,� he said.

Ladder Company 4 � the �Pride of Midtown,� together with Engine Company 54 and Battalion 9 � parked its rig in the middle of Broadway. Mr. Appleton tried to get aboard the truck to photograph the appreciatively cheering crowd. But lots of other onlookers had the same idea until the firefighters chased them off before seating themselves on the ladder.

�They were starting to line up,� Mr. Appleton said. �I looked across street at Bubba Gump�s and I could see there was a second-floor window that would give me the vantage I needed. I envisioned the photo before I went up.�

It took a moment to persuade the manager. In that time, Mr. Appleton feared this precious confluence would simply evaporate. Instead, by the time he positioned himself in the restaurant�s window, there were more firefighters side by side on the ladder. Then it was a matter of waiting for the illuminated zipper across Broadway to display the full message.

Mr. Appleton, 33, has been engaged with this story since it began, when he was assigned by The Daily News to cover St. Vincent�s Hospital and wound up instead with extraordinary pictures of the towers� collapse.

�My career really started on 9/11,� he said by telephone on Monday, after covering the mayor�s news conference on no sleep whatsoever. �It was my baptism by fire.�

# ? May 3, 2011 14:44

RizieN: May 15, 2004; and it was still hot.

brad industry posted:

I think part of it is he always builds those sets with weird perspectives. Like it looks correct from the camera, but that room is not squared off like a normal one would be. I think it reads as correct, but our brain somewhere knows it's not real which makes you stop and look at it a little more closely.

I bought the "Juke Joints" book he mentions in that interview as an inspiration for those sets, and it's all pictures of these falling down buildings with weird sloping ceilings and leaning walls. The guy who shot it tried to correct it with the view camera and a lot of them have the same feel as Dan Winters stuff.

I'll definitely have to check out the book sometime. I like things that seem right to us, but technically aren't quite right.

# ? May 3, 2011 16:29

aricoarena: Aug 7, 2006; citizenh8 bought me this account because he is a total qt.

rear end is my canvas posted:

http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/tagged/cinemagraph/page/1

tee hee

People are having some fun with those gifs. http://class-my-rear end.tumblr.com/

# ? May 3, 2011 22:01

General Gingersnap: Jan 27, 2009

Time for some serious poo poo, breh. I find the first shot of this series really unnecessary, agree? Disagree? just seems exploitative

http://www.oeilpublic.com/diaporama.php?r=366&p=4 :nws:

General Gingersnap fucked around with this message at 00:50 on May 4, 2011

# ? May 3, 2011 23:57

spf3million: Sep 27, 2007; hit 'em with the rhythm

General Gingersnap posted:

Time for some serious poo poo, breh. I find the first shot of this series really unnecessary, agree? Disagree? just seems exploitative

http://www.oeilpublic.com/diaporama.php?r=366&p=4

The first pic is :nws:

fyi.

# ? May 4, 2011 00:21

RangerScum: Apr 6, 2006; lol hey there buddy

I think that series is a loving mess, and no, that first photo doesn't really fit in at all.

# ? May 4, 2011 00:24

General Gingersnap: Jan 27, 2009

I totally agree. His series never really seem to flow, though he can do 'sense of place' pretty well in other sets. I am just curious what you guys think because he has won a Kodak Critics Prize and second place in the World Press Photo in 2008.

# ? May 4, 2011 00:55

Prathm: Nov 24, 2005

RangerScum posted:

I think that series is a loving mess, and no, that first photo doesn't really fit in at all.

The most it says to me is "I wish I was Araki"

# ? May 4, 2011 09:45

scottch: Oct 18, 2003; "It appears my wee-wee's been stricken with rigor mortis."

loving insane.

http://butdoesitfloat.com/1497786/It-s-very-very-dangerous-to-lose-contact-with-living-nature

# ? May 26, 2011 00:44

jackpot: Aug 31, 2004; First cousin to the Black Rabbit himself. Such was Woundwort's monument...and perhaps it would not have displeased him.<

My wife and I are considering a trip to Iceland. Photos like those are making the decision a lot less difficult.

# ? May 26, 2011 01:01

scottch: Oct 18, 2003; "It appears my wee-wee's been stricken with rigor mortis."

If you click through to his site, he has a pretty interesting setup. It seems like very typical tourism-promotion material intermixed with his incredible landscape work. I'm sure it'll only help nudge you that much closer.

# ? May 26, 2011 01:07

East Lake: Sep 13, 2007

Gonna start posting in here more often. This is from a book called Subway by Bruce Davidson.

Edit: Here's a larger gallery, click the little rosegallery sign.

East Lake fucked around with this message at 03:27 on May 26, 2011

# ? May 26, 2011 02:55

spf3million: Sep 27, 2007; hit 'em with the rhythm

East Lake posted:

This is from a book called Subway by Bruce Davidson.

These are amazing. Why does the book have to cost $300 :argh:

# ? May 26, 2011 03:15

Cannister: Sep 6, 2006; Steadfast & Ignorant

If you like incredible natural light (mostly analog) photographs of beautiful women, sometimes nude, sometimes not, taken with a range from 35mm to 8x10 spanning every format in between then look through Jan Scholz's photostream on flickr - I suggest hitting 'L' for the large view when going through it.

(yeah some of it is booby-town, so nsfw probably)

# ? May 27, 2011 16:49