35 Beautifully Animated Photographs a.k.a. Cinemagraphs

What do you get when you mix a fashion photographer, and a master of animation? If you said beautiful gifs, then you are 110% correct! Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg have teamed up to bring us beautiful animated photographs, a.k.a Cinemagraph. These Cinemagraphs are more than a picture, but not quite a video. Their main goal is to visually illustrate a short story. To give you a comparison, think of the magical newspaper from the movie Harry Potter.

Now you are probably scratching your head and thinking how in the word are these different from a GIF(Graphics Interchange Format)? An animated .gif is usually a sequence of stills pulled from a video, combined together and repurposed into a .gif. Cinemagraphs are different because Jamie and Kevin use a single photograph while adding a living moment within it. The process takes many hours of manual editing. If you wish to know how it’s done, check out the following articles:

• How to make a Cinemagraph with Photoshop and After Effects
• Cinemagraph Tutorial
• How I Made a Cinemagraph
• Cinemagraph/Subtle GIF Tutorial
• How To Make Your Own Cinemagraphs: A New Take on GIFs
• How jamie beck and kevin burg create their popular animated gifs

These gifs have been attracting attention like crazy in the last few weeks, we respect this art form and would love to share it with the world! Today we have collected some of the best gifs that Jamie and Kevin have created! For more inspiration visit Jamie’s Tumblog Fromme-toyou.tumblr.com.

Still Hungry for more photography inspiration? Check out our previous collections!

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• 30 Heart Touching Examples of Dear Photograph
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• 40 Beautiful Examples of Black & White Photography
• 30 photographs that will blow your mind

An image says more that a thousand words, but what about a Cinemagraph? We would love to hear your feedback, so please don’t be shy to comment below. Please don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS-feed and follow Inspirationfeed on Twitter+ Facebook (100% Spam Free!) If you enjoyed the following article we humbly ask you to comment,  and help us spread the word with your peers!