Walking around tonight with an assignment from the J School to photograph with my camera set to tungsten/incandescent, I became fairly bored after a few hours. So, I decided to mess with some zoom blurs!
Generally speaking, zoom blurs work best for me when zooming from wide angle to telephoto. Other people seem to be able to go the other way, but I can’t do it to save my life. More after the jump…
Both of these images were captured with a 24-70 lens, exposed for 1/8 second at ISO 1600, f/8 for the street scene and f/10 for the parking garage. Clearly, I could have lowered the ISO, but these were made on the Canon 5D Mark II, so noise isn’t really a concern at ISO 1600.
Cool you’re trying new stuff. If you do this with a tripod, you can get some really cool effects. Usually it’ll leave the focal point in focus and then make everything else blur, making it look like a time-warp.