Dying Flame

The colors are really beautiful - it's artistic and painterly. Love it.

Very nice Chris, certainly an interesting effect, do you turn the ring very far or is it a more subtle move?

ChrisRoss wrote:Very nice Chris, certainly an interesting effect, do you turn the ring very far or is it a more subtle move?

Hi Chris, part of what I loved when I first tried this technique was finding that there are many looks you can achieve. In general I found it nice to start with the image in focus. If my exposure was 20 seconds, I would leave it still for maybe 4 or 5 seconds, then turn the ring a bit to de-focus (but not too de-focused ... adding a kind of Orton element), leave it there for however long, maybe another 5 or 10 seconds, then de-focus it completely to wash the image with soft painterly color patches. It really depends on the subject and what you are going for. But it is really nice that the photographer can make these decisions in a relatively controlled and thoughtful way. That's something I liked about this technique compared to some other abstract photography techniques, such as doing pan blurs.

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This is realty quite soothing - nice idea and work


All the best
Matthew

Lovely shot and very creative.

Wow, great technique. Very beautiful.