ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS/GIF FILE

This is my final GIF file that I created

The first step into making a GIF file is to import all your photos into photoshop. Once you open all your files they will open as layers. Then go to window, then select timeline and a bar will appear at the bottom of the page. Select the bar that says create video timeline and change it to create frame animation. 

In Adobe after effects I created this small animation of a plane moving in the sky. 

Below is a screenshot of the layout of what inside Adobe After effects looks like. When creating an animation you first need to go into Photoshop and create two different layers, one for the background of the sky then a second of the cutout of the plane. Then save the file to your computer but make sure the layers are able to be edited in After Effects.

Then open After Effects and import your photoshopped image. Where you can see the image click the small arrow to show all the separate layers then drag the sky/background layer into the timeline. Once its in the timeline press the drop down arrow to transform and then press the arrow next to that until you can see the position and scale adjustment. Make sure your at the start of the timeline and click the symbol next to the position. Then make the size of the sky bigger than the frame and drag it to the side slightly. Once you've done this then drag the yellow arrow in the timeline to end of the time, mine was around 15seconds and then drag the sky slightly to the other side just so that when the animation is playing the sky looks realistic as its moving slightly. Once you've adjusted the sky, drag the plane layer into the timeline and place it above the sky layer. From here drag the plane to where you want it to be in the frame. Doing the same steps as the sky in transformation you want to make a keyframe for at the start for the plane to have the size you want, then the end of the timeline you wanna make the second keyframe of the plane smaller than the beginning to make it look as if it's heading of into the sky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4DfLfE0U7Q

This is the link to my after effects file.

EDWEARD MUYBRIDGE / EARLY SEQUENCES OF HORSES

Edweard Muybridge was born April 9, 1830 and died May 8, 1903 and was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. At the age of 20, he emigrated to America as a bookseller, first to New York, and then to San Francisco. In 1860, Muybridge was a successful bookseller and he left his bookshop in care of his brother while he was to go and sail back to England to buy more antiquarian books. However, he missed the boat and instead left San Francisco in July 1860 to travel by stagecoach over the southern route in Saint Louis, by rail to New York City, then by boat back to England. However, in central Texas, Muybridge suffered severe head injuries in a violent runway stagecoach crash which injured every passenger on board and even killed one person. Muybridge was quickly removed form the vehicle but hit his head on a rock or on another hard object. He was taken 150 miles to Fort Smith, Arkansas, for his treatement. He stayed here for three month, recovering from symptoms like double vision, confused thinking, impaired sense of taste and smell etc. Shortly after staying here he went to New York City, where he continued in treatment for nearly a year before being able to sail to England.

During his time recuperating in England he took up professional photography, learning the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two British patents for his inventions. He went back to San Fransisco in 1867, and in 1868 his large photographs of Yosemite Valley made him world-famous. In 1875 he travelled for more than a year in Central America on a photographic expedition. In the 1880s, he entered a very productive period at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, producing over 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion, capturing what the human eye could not distinguish as separate movements.

Muybridge spent his later years giving public demonstrations and teachings of his photography and early motion picture sequences, travelling back to England and Europe to publicise his work. He also edited and published compilations of his work, which greatly influenced visual artists and the developing fields of scientific/industrial photography. In 1894, he returned back to England permanently, then shortly in 1904, the Kingston Museum was opened in his hometown and contained a collection of his equipment.

In 1872, the former businessman and race-horse owner, hired Muybridge for some photographic studies. He had taken a position on a popularly debated question "whether all four feet of a horse were off the ground at the same time while trotting." In 1872, Muybridge began experimenting with an array of 12 cameras photographing a galloping horse in a sequence of shots. The human eye could not break down the action at the quick stride of the trot and gallop. Up until this point of discovery, most artists painted horses at a trot with one foot always on the ground, and at a full gallop with the front legs extended to the rear, and all feet off the ground. So Muybirdge was hired to prove this question. Between 1878 and 1884, Muybridge perfected his method of horses in motion, proving that they do have all four hooves off the ground during their running stride. In 1872, Muybridge settled Stanford's question with a single negative showing the horse airborne at the trot. 

JUSTIN QUINNELL RESEARCH / ANALOGUE / 3 MONTH EXPOSURE

Justin Quinnell was known for his pinhole photography and recently worked as the Pinhole consultant for the movie "The Brothers Bloom" and his cameras are featured in the film. When he was younger, around the age of 4 he had several operations on his eyes as he had a problem with them. He said that he had a patch of one of his eyes with a tiny whole to look through. In addition, in a not very wealthy part of Bristol, he was the head of the photography department. Due to the kids and their parents didn't have the money to spend on a camera, so he got them to make a camera out of their drink cans and he really loved the idea.

This is the final outcome of my lumin pinhole camera, that was exposed for 3 months. What I did was, I stuck it outside my window of my house and it was east facing. As you can see it worked very well and you can see the light trails of the sun rising over for the three months. You can also see some detail in the image from the trees etc. 

Then once I had taken a photo of the pinhole outcome I imported them onto my computer and opened it into photoshop. Then in photoshop I inverted the photo so that the blacks become white and white becomes black. Doing this brought out the detail in the photo and now you can see the trees and theres some slight detail in the other surroundings.

MAKING GIF FILES INTO PHOTOSHOP

This is my final GIF file that I created

The first step into making a GIF file is to import all your photos into photoshop. Once you open all your files they will open as layers. 

Then go to window, then select timeline and a bar will appear at the bottom of the page. Select the bar that says create video timeline and change it to create frame animation. 

SAM TAYLOR-WOOD JOHNSON RESEARCH / SEQUENCES OF DECAY

Sam Taylor - Johnson was born in London in 1967 and is splitting her time between London and Los Angeles. At the age of 16, she enrolled in an art college in Hastings, later moving back to London to attend Goldsmiths College. She was originally a sculpture, but began working in photography, film and video in the early 1990s. Sam Taylor Wood has had many group and solo exhibitions including the Venice Biennale in 1997, where she won the Illy Cafe Prize for Most Promising Young Artist and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1998. Sam Taylor Johnson is regarded as one of the most important female contemporary artists and her work combines elements of the still life and moving image. 

Sam Taylor Johnson's 'Still Life' 2001 was one of the classical still life but described as an 'Updated in this exquisite, simple meditation on morality and beauty. This addition of a supermarket peach and a Bic pen prompts questions about modern attempts at immortality.

HAROLD EDGERTON RESEARCH / SEQUENCES OF MOVEMENT

Harold Eugene Edgerton was born on April 6, 1903 and he died January 4, 1990 aged 86. He was a Professor of Electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of technology. Here is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He also was deeply involved with the development of sonar and deep sea photography, And his equipment was used by Jacques Cousteau in searches for shipwrecks and even the Loch Ness monster. Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska, he is the son of Mary Nettie Coe And Frank Eugene Edgerton, A descendent of Richard Edgerton, One of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut And they descendant of Gov William Bradford (1592-1657) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the MayflowerNow. His father was a lawyer, journalist, author and orator and served as the assistant attorney general of Nebraska from 1911 to 1950. Edgerton grew up in Aurora, Nebraska but he also spent some of his childhood years in Washington DC and Lincoln, Nebraska. 

In 1937 Edgerton became a known photographer who used stroboscopic equipment, in particular, multiple studio electronic flash units, to produce these stunning photographs, many of which appeared in Life Magazine. When taking multi flash photographs this strobe light equipment could use flash up 120 times a second. Edgerton was a pioneer in using short duration electronic flash and fast events photography, subsequently using this technique to capture images of balloons at different stages of the bursting, a bullet during its impact on an apple, or using multiflash to track the motion of a devil stick, for example. Edgerton is equally recognised for his visual aesthetic, many of the striking images he created in illuminating phenomena that occurred to fast for the naked eye adorn art museums worldwide. His high-speed stroboscopic short film Quicker'n a Wink won an Oscar in 1940. 

Edgerton remained active throughout his later years and was seen on the MIT campus many times after his official retirement. Unfortunately he died suddenly in January 4, 1990 at the age of 86 and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Milk Drop Coronet, 1934
20 x 16 inches
Gelatin silver print

I really like the simplicity of Edgerton's Photographs, for example this famous Milk Drop photograph. The splash of the milk has create a sticking shape as the droplets have risen in the air but almost looks semetrical all the way round making the image look very unique. I also think that this photograph looks as if it follows a certain art design/movement. 

The image below is my take on of the Milk Drop instead we just used a bowl of water and dropped an apple into it to created the big splash. We used a massive set up for this shoot with a large DSLR camera with a large zoom lens also with infrared triggers to set of the flash when the apple goes through it. The camera is set on a 10 second exposure time so that the camera doesn't miss the shot. The room is pitch black so when the flash goes off the camera only captures the moment when the splash happens.