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Archive 2005 · #23: Zoning Out

dtfromep
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p.1 #1 · #23: Zoning Out

My first MA submission. No photoshopping/cropping - wanted to leave it as I captured it (took many tries to get the right effect):

Again, apologies for the poor composition, comments?

Apr 15, 2005 at 04:57 AM

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p.1 #2 · #23: Zoning Out

I'm interested -- how did you capture it? I see a zoom and a flash, but how did you do the upper left-lower right thing?

Apr 17, 2005 at 09:57 AM

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p.1 #3 · #23: Zoning Out

Daron Shade wrote:
I'm interested -- how did you capture it? I see a zoom and a flash, but how did you do the upper left-lower right thing?

Thanks for the interest! There was no flash, but I started out with the shades drawn in the background - that caused the background to do a much more pronounced 'zoom' effect, which was undesireable. Opened the shades to let a lot of light in, which blew the BG out, but elminated most of the zoom blur from it.

As for the other part, I assume you are talking about the text. I had the laptop screen on full brightness, and zoomed pretty far in (~100mm). Then, over the length of the exposure, I zoomed out at a relatively constant rate allowing slightly longer at the beginning and end (to make the beginning/end of the zoom more pronounced).

The effect was pretty neat I thought, perhaps one of you pros here can replicate with better results.

Settings:
iso100
aperture f/22
8sec
~100-28mm

Cheers!

-Dan

Apr 17, 2005 at 01:56 PM

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p.1 #4 · #23: Zoning Out

very cool!! thanks for sharing!

dan

Apr 27, 2005 at 05:12 AM


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