I’ve been trying to test out what I’ve come to simply refer to as a flip-flop animation, using two or more pictures played at 10ms each in an endless loop (animated GIF). The example below was one of my Random Images a while ago, and got me to experimenting on how one might be produced.
Random Image From A Previous Post
I tried it out at first taking two pictures that I thought were relatively side-by-side — by just pressing the shot button once, then again. I then edited them together using the default frame time of 10ms with a trial version of GIF Movie Gear that I got and have since enjoyed so far. What resulted were two images that, instead of looking 3D, actually shook like an earthquake (and almost panic-attack inducing, I might add).
I’ve created a new Flickr account, twothreeeight, to showcase most all of my photography in general, including this set of experiments. However, when viewing them from Flickr itself, you’ve got to click on the View All Sizes button above the preview thumb in order to see the actual animation sequence.
It was then that I remembered my camera had one of those less-oft used functions of rapid-ish-ly taking multiple shots with only one button press, so I decided to try using that, and with GIF Movie Gear lined up a Shot1/Shot2/Shot3/Shot4/Shot3/Shot2 loop, so that it would go back and forth up and down the line — moving the camera only what I estimated to be very minutely. Not that much better!
After this semi-failure, I wondered that perhaps my angling really wasn’t as deep as it should have been, so I tried a few outside instead.
Zooming In: Fail
Going Around a Shrub: Fail
Looking Down A Street: Fail-ish
The last one was probably the best try, but still not quite what I was trying to do.
I’ll still have to experiment with this more, but take a stab at it yourself and let me know how it comes out — maybe even provide a link?
