Three LG V40 ThinQ cameras create beautiful cinemograms

One of my favorite photographers, Jamie Beck, famous for Instagram, from Ann Street Studio, creates images that are both beautiful and moving.

Credit: LGBeck and his creative partner, Kevin Burg, make cinemagraphs, beautiful pictures moving very slightly. These are kind of GIFs, but only one part of the photo is animated. The new LG V40 ThinQ allows fans like me to create the same effect, with a new Cine Shot feature that greatly simplifies the making of a cinemagraph.

I'm a little obsessed with this feature, which uses the V40's triple-rear camera system. The cinematographies of Beck and Burg enliven the details of a photo, such as the splash of champagne, the rustling of a leaf or the luster of a high heel. I applied this aesthetic when I had the opportunity to test myself the Cine Shot function of the V40 before the planned launch of the phone on Oct. 3 in New York. (LG flipped the beans on the V40 in a blog post last week.)

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The new feature is hidden behind the Mode option at the top of the V40's camera preview. When you press Cine Shot, you will notice that a red button appears to record a video. Cine Shot records clips for 3 seconds, then allows you to highlight the area of ​​the video you want to animate. You can zoom in to get details with your animations, or you can slide to the screen to animate a larger area. The result is saved as a full-HD MP4 file on your filmstrip, and you can then share the creation as a video on Instagram.

As you can see in the example that I have created below from a hot dog stand, only one of the trolleys is equipped with an umbrella flying in the breeze, while that the canopy of the other cart is motionless.

A Cine Shot created by my colleague Adam at an LG event was easier to capture because I could just highlight a circle around the reel when it was spinning.

Cine Shots is especially fun to create when there is a continuous movement in the same direction, like this fountain projecting water into the sky.

It is difficult to capture an object moving quickly on the screen, such as a car or a dog, without animating the entire picture (and this would be counterproductive). You will want to keep things simple, at least in the beginning.

I will never reproduce the technical expertise of a true filmmaker, but quickly achieving something close with Cine Shot is a most enjoyable experience. We will discover other exciting features offered by the three camera system during the LG event of October 3rd.