With the sad and slow death of my beloved NIK Efex, there is a light on the horizon. That light is coming from Neptune. Not the planet but the recent iteration of Macphun’s editing platform Luminar. Recently, this platform has been creating a ton of buzz around the photography world and I decided to give it a look. Now I […]
One of the issues when creating cinemagraphs is that sometimes the point at which the clip begins is not the same as end point. While this may seem fairly normal, it becomes an issue when dealing with liquids. As you add more to the cup the level changes and thus causes an issue with the mask that you create in […]
When I first started creating cinemagraphs, I really wanted to create something fluid that drew the eye and never seemed to stop. Things like water and trees blowing in the wind were great for that. However, without a subject or some element of the image that is not in motion but should be, then the cinemagraph lacked something. This is […]