Photomotion
A PhotoMotion is a simple animation created with tons of photos and put together in video editing software. It’s kind of like stop motion but the difference is that the camera is usually moving (but this doesn’t have to be the case like in this example). It’s extremely easy to do and can produce amazing results.
To get started, check out this example of a PhotoMotion. The author shows how to shoot the PhotoMotion and the result.
http://vimeo.com/8767820#embed
Once you’ve watched the video, head over to Vimeo’s PhotoMotion page and get acquainted with the planning and shooting of a PhotoMotion.
TO DO:
A PhotoMotion is a simple animation created with tons of photos and put together in video editing software. It’s kind of like stop motion but the difference is that the camera is usually moving (but this doesn’t have to be the case like in this example). It’s extremely easy to do and can produce amazing results.
To get started, check out this example of a PhotoMotion. The author shows how to shoot the PhotoMotion and the result.
http://vimeo.com/8767820#embed
Once you’ve watched the video, head over to Vimeo’s PhotoMotion page and get acquainted with the planning and shooting of a PhotoMotion.
TO DO:
- Check out some of the examples of PhotoMotions on Vimeo’s PhotoMotion Channel for ideas and inspiration from professionals, sem-professionals and amateurs. Don’t spend too long here – no longer than 10 minutes to stimulate. I have embedded some of my favorites at the bottom of this page as well.
- Plan your shoot. You’ll have roughly 30-40 minutes to execute your shoot so plan ahead and decide where you will traveling (walking) and/or what the subject matter will be.
- What mode should you shoot in? It honestly doesn’t matter other than you should be in a creative mode and not shooting Auto. We don’t want the on-camera flash to fire. Just ensure that you have proper exposure. Depth of Field will be your decision.
- Focusing? I’d stick with autofocus for now. Makes life just that much easier.
- Shooting the PhotoMotion: Talk a shot a second. By the end of your shoot you’re looking for 400+ photos. If you have less, your animation will be quite short as when we import them into Adobe Premiere, we will be setting the duration of each photo to under half a second.
- Shoot Medium JPEGs. Remember, we’re shooting hundreds of photos. Shooting in RAW and/or High Resolution JPEG will either slow our camera down and/or fill our memory cards very quickly. Our finished video will be 1280 x 960 so we only need our photos to meet that size. Selecting Medium (Fine – the curved 1/4 circle) will cut our file sizes in half. You could shoot in Small JPEG, but I would recommend staying in Medium.
- Upload your images to a folder in your Photography 20 folder called, “PhotoMotion”.
- Watch the “Creating the PhotoMotion Video in Adobe Premiere”, and “Uploading your PhotoMotion to Vimeo” video tutorials (located below).
- Use background music from Vimeo’s Music Store. Ensure to reference the song in both the credits of the movie and in the video’s description on Vimeo
When you have your photos watch...
Creating your PhotoMotion in Adobe Premiere CS5 from Stephen Pottage on Vimeo.
Creating your PhotoMotion in Adobe Premiere CS5 from Stephen Pottage on Vimeo.