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.