HBW + HNY!!!!
This shot is really quite easy. I just stood about 6' in front of the Christmas tree, set the camera to manual focus and selected the closet focus distance setting. Then, I zoomed out to the widest setting on my K10D's kit lens (18mm) and set the mode dial to Manual mode with f/3.5 aperture and 1/4 second exposure. Holding the camera at waist height with my right hand and the zoom ring on the lens with my left hand, I depressed the shutter while turning the camera body in a clockwise motion around the lens (rotation direction may vary depending on lens). This rotated the image while zooming in during the 1/4 second the shutter was open. Only took a couple of tries to get this shot. BTW, make sure any image stabilization is OFF or you will get wonky jerky bokeh trails!
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Robert S. Donovan 54 months ago | reply
wild table 54 months ago | reply
really cool work! happy 2009!
dakota.morrison 54 months ago | reply
great technique. thanks for the lesson.
MISS CHANCE 54 months ago | reply
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keldemean 54 months ago | reply
psychedelic bed spins
awesome
funston 54 months ago | reply
Very nice!
Ayoumali 54 months ago | reply
what the crazy!
reminds me of me washing my coloreds last night!
MyArtistSoul 54 months ago | reply
Nice!
I just did something like this this past weekend (with a building further away at night and 2-3 sec exposure, but not as exciting as this) . It reminded me that, having only primes, I missed this trick in my 35mm days.
robertschodterer 54 months ago | reply
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Flickering Image 54 months ago | reply
Impressive stuff!
stephen_woolverton 54 months ago | reply
let's see some of the wonky bokeh trails!
Jadydangel 54 months ago | reply
Coool thanks!! (They pretty much all looked like this last night... to me at least!! hehe!)
atschussman 54 months ago | reply
Very cool! I'll have to try that technique.
Robert S. Donovan 54 months ago | reply
gabriele.marazzi 52 months ago | reply
Very good shot, i use it on a post-blog:
seomadhat.blogspot.com/2009/03/redirect-301.html
gargiprasad 33 months ago | reply
beautiful :)
Michelle W Cole 29 months ago | reply
cool, i'm gonna try this!
Moon Memento ☆ ムーン ☆ メメント 28 months ago | reply
so pretty!
ekmai 16 months ago | reply
very cool
australianpolicyonline 2 months ago | reply
Thanks from Australian Policy Online. This pic is on APO's home page (with attribution) for a few days from 10 April 2013. See www.apo.org.au/ (illustrating an article called 'Financialisation and globalisation: permament reverse or cyclical downturn?). Thank you for listing your image with a Creative Commons license.