Here’s a higher quality (2.3mb) 800x450px cinemagraph I’m working on for my photography course. The next step is to put in the vintage photograph I was re-photographing. Anyways here’s the sneak peak.
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Cinemagraph.01
Reza in the studio, test.
I’m taking a photography course at school and the current assignment is rephotography. Halifax has a decent amount of history (relatively speaking for Canada) and we are supposed to retake historical photographs and then merge them together.
The next assignment involves animation so I was immediately reminded of the beautifully animated GIF’s by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg co-creators of the “cinemagraph” that Alison turned me onto.
Here is my first attempt at a cinemagraph. It took me about 30s to set up the scene: “ok reza, stay completely still then look at the camera and turn back.” Shot done. About 30 minutes of tutorial shopping, I settled on one from netmagazine which I found the easiest to follow. Then about an hour of actually making the clip, adjusting animation, deleting frames to get filesize down etc.. and here we are!
The Architect & Photographer
Short video of UBC Pharmacy while I was assisting architectural photographer Marc Cramer shooting for HCMA and Saucier + Perrotte.
This is my first video I’ve made on my own. It was shot over 2 days, and a day of learning FCPX and uploading. Next step is to start getting into the technical side of recording. I’m not terribly happy with the quality of what I got out of my 5dmkii which I think can be greatly improved with some simple adjustments.
Shooting video is much different than photos but I’m keen to learn the process and get a grasp on how to piece footage together.
Enjoy!
The Architect & Photographer from Ryan Nelson on Vimeo.
What I’m watching…
One of my favorite series ever:

LOVED the season finale, I won’t reveal any spoilers if you haven’t watched it yet but… Zombies + ???? = AWESOME
PressPausePlay.
PressPausePlay from House of Radon on Vimeo.


