In the past few months, I have been haunted by the great cinemagraphs by From Me To You.

The great work brought me the feelings of the magic pictures in Harry Potter films. Over last weekend, when my girlfriend was outing with her colleagues, I decided to make my own cinemagraph collection.

(Un)fortunately, I’m that kind of person who will think big at the very beginning. I’ve even talked with my friends about the possibility to make these pictures into an interactive app on iOS, and planned to make the pictures in 1080p format to make sure they will catch up the latest trends 2 years later.

But after shooting and making 10 cinemagraphs I gave up the insane idea, for now. And it might be good not to post it to any of my blogs/microblogs that have been known by my friends.

Here’s the first shoot of my cinemagraph collection. The fan in air conditioner is easy to polished into animated .gif, and it took only 8 frames for a loop. It was taken outside my car dealership when I got my new Peugeot 508.

It was hot last Saturday, especially in the workshop where they finished the final processes of the new car. It took me 30 minutes to figure out the best settings of making cinemagraphs on my Canon 5D Mark II with a cheap tripod.

The half an hour under sunshine was like the fixed cost of this whole collection. If I don’t give up after 10 shots, that would benefit me for a really long time.

For me, well, this picture looked good enough. So… here we go again.