Muybridge's Motion Studies

When was it first discovered and by whom?

Eadweard J. Muybridge In 1788

What is special about the technique?

Had fast camera shutters and used to make photographs show sequences of movement

It shows proof that a trotting horse can simultaneously have all four hooves off the ground.

How does this technique work? (nationalgeographic.com)

a row of cameras snapped a dozen or more photographs of a passing horse

Can you find or describe the processes needed to make it work? Maybe illustrate how it is made.

Muybridge camera have electric shutters and are triggered in sequence 4 every second as the horses pass by. So when the horse gallop each gallop is pictured to give a sense of animation.

The Zoopraxiscope was developed by Eadweard Muybridge, which projected a

series of images in successive phases of movement obtained through the use of multiple cameras.

In Eadweard Muybridge's most famous motion studies, ; For this

experiment Muybridge devised a fast camera shutter and used a new, more sensitive

photographic process, both of which dramatically reduced exposure time and produced

crisp images of moving objects.

Can you comment how important this technique has been for the history of photography? For example was it popular and is it still used today?

First time motion movement was captured on camera seeing as how cinemas wasn't evented in those days.

It was another way of proving things.

A way photographers could entertain their audience.

Can you find Image evidence of the technique?