WARNING: Viewing large can make some people dizzy and smiley. Go for it.
This is an older picture but Popular Photo Magazine is featuring it on a "How To" tutorial on their January issue so I'm bumping it to the top of my stream to thank them and to thank all of you at Flickr!
There is nothing that my three-year-old daughter Pia loves more than me spinning her around (ok, maybe chocolate). She likes to go fast and she can take over 40 turns before we go down together for a crash landing.
Mi trick for spinning so long is to focus my gaze directly on her and disregard the rest of the spinning visual field. So I just had to take a picture of exactly what I see as we are spinning around: set exposure to 1/60 to 'freeze' her face but blur the background, prefocused manually and started spinning while looking through the viewfinder....
After each spinning session, we are both so dizzy that the game is to see who can stand on their feet first. I've never won : ).
Note: This is NOT an effect: we are really spinning. Only mild color
correction, sharpening and croping in photoshop.
Note2: Don't try this at home unless you are willing to crash land
with a toddler on one hand and your camera on the other.
Note3: From the side it looks something like:
www.flickr.com/photos/countingphotons/3909315522/
but with one hand on the camera.
6/22/2009 at 23:49:57 : Originally posted.
10/03/2009 : WOW! This is my first picture to ever reach 1000+ Views
and 100+ Favs! Thanks everyone!
1/07/2010 : Popular Photo featured this image on their January issue so I bumped the image back
to my stream's head.
1/12/2010 : Breaks 3,000 views, 400 favorites, 400 comments! Thank
you so much everyone!
3/1/2010: Breaks 5,000 views, 500 favs!
8/26/2010: Featured in a "Raising Happiness" article: greatergood.berkeley.edu/raising_happiness/post/hurry_up_...
10/21/2010: Breaks 10,000 views.
6/19/2011: This picture was featured on Flicker's Blog! What a wonderful father's day gift.
namal k, comise, hz536n/George Thomas, bernat..., and 1148 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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sambuffygeek 24 months ago | reply
There are all amazing, but I think this one is my personal fave!
mr3urious1 24 months ago | reply
Adorable smile! She really seems to be having fun! :)
marzycards 24 months ago | reply
Gorgeous!!
Tomitheos 23 months ago | reply
This is a beautiful image!!
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sharkoman 23 months ago | reply
very good :)
Luca Montanari Photography 23 months ago | reply
The success of this photo is all deserved!
Sesi López 23 months ago | reply
Genial!!!
Alexandre Van de Sande 23 months ago | reply
Someone on reddit linked your picture saying he used to look exactly like your daughter when she was a kid!
www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/io69b/this_picture_is_mind...
r.AI (-) 23 months ago | reply
Alshareef Hashim 23 months ago | reply
amazing shot! Love it!
mimi oliver 21 months ago | reply
How did I miss this amazing picture for so long?!? Brilliant ;)
Ratão Diniz 20 months ago | reply
Otimo resultado, fantastico!!!!!!!!!!
Microbsoft 20 months ago | reply
excellent, congrats !
Anniriitta 17 months ago | reply
Beautiful!
Mark Griffith 15 months ago | reply
Awesome
Giselle's Photographs 12 months ago | reply
Awesome!
Max Hendel 12 months ago | reply
Brilliantly captured !!!
muriel220 11 months ago | reply
Great shot, good idea.
[ via 'Creative Child Photography' group on flickriver --muriel220 ]
David Tao Photography 2 months ago | reply
Very inspiring! Going to make one myself and my dear three years old.