From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs and Plotagraphs

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Combining stills with video or timelapse

Combining stills with video or timelapse

From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs and Plotagraphs

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Combining stills with video or timelapse

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- Sometimes dynamic motion is easiest shown with video or a timelapse clip, but other times dynamic range, the ability to see the lightest and darkest elements, is better served by a photograph. This is just the current state of technology. But I want to show you how easy it is to put the two pieces together. For example, here's that image I showed you earlier. If we take a look at where this is starting it's not a very well exposed photograph. In order to expose for the sky properly everything gets a bit muddy. But we can bring a lot of that detail back. Using a tool, like the On Image tool here, I can easily apply a Curve, allowing me to lighten or darken different areas. Or use the Saturation adjustment here to bring out certain colors. Let's really bring those trees to life. And you see that we've got great exposure here on the individual totem poles at this park in Vancouver, British Columbia. Well, let's go ahead and open up that object. There it is. And now I'm going to bring…

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