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When the idea for these photos struck me I imagined exactly how I would do it. I daydreamt of twirling around like the lady from The Sound of Music; minus the beautiful hills and plus dodging headstones as I deathgripped my camera.
When it came time to shoot, I’m sure I looked more like a dizzy delinquent high on LSD than a blonde nanny in a musical. Luckily, though, only the dead were around to criticize and they don’t say much.
It wasn’t long before I figured out that moving my camera had to be a lot less carefree than playing ring around the rosie with myself. I settled on 1 second exposures (rather than the 4 that I started with) and panned the camera slow, steady, and straight across the horizon.
I got kind of addicted to the process and the surprise of seeing the resulting blend of color. The rainbow background above was my favorite surprise. Below is a snapshot reference of the scene before I spun it away in my camera.
What do you think?
The scene that I motion-blurred into a rainbow background for the photo above.
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Wow! That is a very cool effect. Until you explained how you did it I thought maybe Photoshop. The fact that you did it the old-fashioned way – with your camera – is amazing! But you must have Photoshopped the leaf into the picture later. 🙂
Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks Dorothy! Yes, you’re right I did silo out the leaf (which took longer than you might think with all those serrated edges!) and add it into the photo later. I originally wanted to do everything in camera, but it seemed nearly impossible. That leaf does come from that blurred scene though, because I was trying to make it as “real” as possible. That’s why the red matches up so well. I don’t think I would have had near as much fun if I just blurred the image in Photoshop, it was almost suspenseful as I shot each image and saw what turned up.
Thanks again for reading and taking the time to tell me what you think!