Cinematography Vs. Stop Motion Photography

Cinematography, basically, is the art of creating a motion picture. It is a type of media that can portray many different type of stories. Cinematographers have to use their knowledge of camera angles, lighting exposure, if in color then saturation and if in black and white the contrast. It is with all these tools that a cinematographer can tell a story, or express a pathos to the viewer.

Stop motion photography is a similar form to cinematography, while stop motion is not continuously being filmed it can be used to tell a story on it's own. What stop motion is is when a photographer takes an image of an inanimate object and moves it in tiny increments. This is so that when all the images are put together and played together it gives off the illusion of movement. Sometimes this process is used on animate objects as well as inanimate. One thing cinematographers and stop motion photographers do have in common is that they need to control the exposure, camera angles, lighting, contrast and saturation of the images.

Stop Motion

What is stop motion? Stop motion is a cinematic technique where the camera repeatedly takes images every image slightly different each time, sometimes used to give inanimate objects the illusion of lifelike movement.

What I want to learn is some basics of stop motion, how it works and what needs to be done to create basic videos of stop motion. With this I want to be able to also work on taking a stop motion scene and be able to photoshop elements in as well as actually use physical elements in the scenes.

Grandma Chìc

I'm in the corner of the parlor of my grandparents house, well now my grandmothers house. I stare in amazement at all the people that he knew. It makes me fell small in comparison to the legacy that he left behind. Who knew that he had touched so many people. I looked at the globe that I've always been interested in, thinking, I might get it sooner then I had hoped.

New York

The Highlights of this trip for me would probably have to be just going in general because New York is just such a beautiful place over all, however if I had to choose specifically I would have to say going to Brooklyn and getting to walk across the bridge as well as getting to visit the 9/11 memorial. Of all the things that I would like to remember I would say that the photo exhibit in the International Center for Photography asking 'what is photography'? That exhibit really changed the way that I think of photography. I believe that in this trip I learned many things, one being taking pictures using manual settings faster so it doesn't take to long to take an image. Another thing that I learned is that it's good to take a load of images, save them and then later go through them because some images that on your camera you thought looked good could have been worse then it appeared and vise versa, bad images coming out good.

High Line Walk | New York | 2014

Grand Central Station | New York | 2014

Brooklyn Bridge | New York | 2014

9/11 Memorial | New York | 2014

Misc. | New York | 2014

Color

The days are dark, it's been weeks since I last payed the electric bills. the lamp that I stand by emits it's weak yellow light across the small room. Blackness engrosses the rest of the room, the light is flickering now almost gone. I can hear them now, they are getting closer and closer as the light slowly dies. And so will I.

Warmth

The storm rages outside, the power is still out but the sun is coming up. My hand crawls against the textured surface of the arm of the chair with the lid of the candle in hand. I place the lid on the candle, oblivious of the fact that I hadn't blown out the candle