Cinemagraphs Course at the Australian Centre for Photography

Overview

There are some parts of Harry Potter's magical world that we're never going to experience, like invisibility and Butterbeer (though we live in hope). The same can no longer be said about moving pictures. Cinemagraphs, a kind of animated gif, are still photos that visually come to life through a minor and repeated movement of one aspect of the image. The technique was invented by US fashion photographers Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck, and the Australian Centre for Photography is giving you the chance to learn how to do it.

Hosted by super cool fashion photographer Christian Blanchard, this intensive weekend workshop will leave you with the skills to move your stills. If the only camera you've ever used is the one on your smart phone, this may not be the course for you (there are a couple of pre-requisites to enrol for the course including Camera Craft 1 and 2 and some knowledge of Photoshop). But if you have those skills and your own DSLR, this is your chance to learn some seriously cool visual effects and literally move people (and random inanimate objects) with your art.