Thursday, 17 May 2012

Cinemagraph

This is my first attempt at a cinemagraph and boy did I find it hard! I have a video camera but only a small basic one I use for fun. I recently upgraded my DSLR and my new camera has video recording built in. I've never done any kind of videoing (is that the right term?!) before so it's all very new to me! I realise the cinemagraph is jumping horribly all over the shop but just try imagine it's smooth! I'm going to the lakes this weekend with George so I'm excited to refine my cinemagraphic techniques (sounds a better way to say it than 'stop sucking at making them') with some gorgeous shots of the views!



EDIT!!! I fixed it! It's no longer as jumpy, don't know if what I did was right but it seemed to have worked for now. I still need to work on the editing as I can see mistakes when I've made my vector mask, and it's not fluid when it reaches the end but these are all things I can improve with practise and patience!
Also next time I'm going to pick something easier to work with, I found the shape of the flowers hard! 



Friday, 4 May 2012

Glowing







I saw this idea on the internet a few weeks ago and had to try it! Tutorial

I want to explore this further and keep trying different variations of it but for now I'm very happy with the results!