
To do this, choose subjects whose movements don’t cross paths with other moving objects. Your goal is to keep most of the photograph still, while one or more subjects subtly move. You can use a short video you already have or shoot a new clip, too. Shoot Your Videoįor my cinemagraph, I’ll use a clip from a trip I took with my girlfriend at the time.


This is what’s great about cinemagraphs, too. The beauty of a GIF is that you can share more than a photograph, so you’ll often see them used in memes.

Maybe you even remember them when they were blowing up on Myspace (or is that just this guy :). You’ve probably seen them on Tumblr, Reddit or 4Chan. Basically, a short, animated file that is everywhere online these days. Technically, a cinemagraph is just a GIF or a Graphics Interchange Format. A cinemagraph is “more than a photo, but not quite a video.” Or at least that’s how Supermodel Coco Rocha summed them up.
