Advanced photography students worked today in class and created a series of animated gifs.

What exactly is a gif file? An animated GIF is an image encoded in graphics interchange format (GIF), which contains a number of images or frames in a single file and is described by its own graphic control extension. the frames are presented in a specific order to convey animation. (technopedia.com)

The techniques used to make these images were learned from a tutorial by Julianne Kost on the Lynda.com website. Photography students used Lynda.com to find answers to all their photography questions and new techniques.