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Those are really lovely.
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I think the term doing the rounds at the moment is, "Convergence".
Change is coming whether we like it or not.
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A really neat effect, but I dont think anything will be replaced, this is just a whole new area to exist alongside traditional photography. After all, it can only exist (currently) as a digital medium, whereas still photographs are not restricted to that.
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My immediate reaction was - this is pretty cool - how did they do that? However, the more I look at each of these, the more fake/computerized this effect seems. This reminds me of the Harry Potter "photographs" they have hanging on the walls at Hogwarts. Would you want to look at such a moving still art everyday hanging on your wall (plus, it would require electronics for display)? There is something in a still image that provides for that special mood (or even several different ones, depending on your own mood) or makes you create certain stories in the back of your mind. I think intorducing movement into such a still removes that special feeling. Anyway, I will continue to reflect on this for a while...
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Vlad Bubnov edited this topic 13 months ago.
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They're horrible! Notably the ones where the hair movement is looping over and over - so unnatural.
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Eric__ edited this topic 13 months ago.
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Its pretty cool, but when looking at them I cant help thinking I would this more without the movement.
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I think they would be ok if the movement only happened once in a while. Like the hair one is very annoying. However if the movement was slowed down to a light breeze and only reoccurred every 5 minutes, it might be interesting. But that version is just weird.
Same thing with the newpaper one. If it happened only every 5 or 10 minutes it would be fun because people would probably only catch the movement indirectly, think to themselves "did that just move" then stare at it for a while with nothing happening. Then a little later...
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I kind of like them, especially the one of the café with the yellow cab driving by in reflection - but yes they do remind me of Harry Potter. Maybe that's where the idea came from! :o)
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Nice idea, can be done with Photoshop?
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aren't these just animated gifs?
nothing new here. animated gifs have been around since I used Lynx to go to that hierarchically organized page on akebono@stanford.
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From what I read, the creators aren't claiming to be using any incredible new technology; they are indeed gif files, and why not -- it just happens to be the ideal format for them to use to realise their vision. I would like the photos without the movement; with it, they're an interesting curiosity, a clever take on displaying a photo, a new (or reworked) way of looking at things.
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Yawn, nothing new.
Still makes me laugh that people look on this stuff with awe - zoetropes, lenticular prints, 'stereo' 3D cameras, holograms, etc., most ending their days as children's toys or the 'special gift' in cereal boxes. However, just as the Victorians they'll be people trying to make money from it and equally gullible enough people that'll part cash for such novelties.
Hmmm, where's that copy of photoshop and that chinese supplier of cheap digital photo frames I had lying around?..........
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Gosh, people, can't you just enjoy some nicely crafted photos?
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@groovy:groovy, everyone with a DSLR thinks they are artists producing art. So it is easy to pooh-pooh "gimmicks" :)
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Cool!
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Stopkidding - Define gimmick. For me its comparing Lady Gaga costumes to Bob Dylan songwriting. One draws unnecessary attention to itself for an effect while the other simply is. I guess I'm solidy in the latter camp.
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Very Harry Potter.
Same genre as those early water ripple effects with Java applets but some painstaking work with animated gifs here.
As with the lake ripple thing, first time you see it is great, but you can have too much waving hair!
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I actually like them. Though I wouldn't sit and look at one for 20 minutes, I find the flutter of movement to be quite a magical touch. Nice in small doses.
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It's' cool, but how do you hang something like this? Or see it in a magazine? Billboard? I think it's limited to just online or slideshows and television?
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@Eric, a good example was Olympus art filters, originally pooh-pooh as canned effects, now slowly becoming main stream features. Some still think they are a wasteful drain of engineering resources, but some like it and put it to good use.
On the Dylan V. Gaga, I am firmly in your camp :)
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They've been doing this in the porn industry for years -- so I hear. It will be compelling for 15 minutes, and then it will start to look artificial and gimmicky. Like black velvet paintings, it will become unfashionable to admit that you like them.
The core of attractive still photography will always be its insight about the photographer's relationship with the subject. This doesn't add much to that, IMHO.
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Meh...
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Horrible. Just horrible. Except for the guy with the newspaper - that one seems reasonably natural.
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I found them irritating after about 10 seconds. A properly done looping video clip would be better (one with seamless looping) but even that would start to look like someone forgot to push play on the dvd player after a few minutes. I would rather look at a video, or at a still, but not both at once.
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When I used to make animated gifs I'd have two or three different delays - that breaks up the regularity a bit so it's not as predictable and therefore not as annoying. When your brain recognises a simple pattern in time it's soon eager to move on.
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