Animated time

I have been playing about with some ideas and learning new skills (very slowly) in the process.

I photographed some of the watch bits under the stereoscopic microscope.

The watch hand looks like half a pair of scissors, so with a bit of Photoshopping ...

With more Photoshopping using layers and transformations a series of pictures was built up which I then used to create a video.

By inserting a background image in the video software I then tried playing around with the Chroma key facility on the video software.

An alternative method was to insert a background into each of the original images, and then create the video.

Working on another idea using magnets, watch bits and video camera and this is the result: