How do you do this?

[dugmar]

What do you do to get this effect?

http://img.mtv3.fi/mn_kuvat/9767/61036.jpg

[digismile]

MAybe something like this:

1. Copy the backgroun layer. Optionally select an area not to be blurred. I used the lasso to loosely select an area. Feathered 30 pixels.

2. Invert the selection Ctrl-Shft-I

3. Filter->Blur->Radial Blur. Blur method:Zoom Draft Quality, Amount: 22

This is what I got:

http://digismile.smugmug.com/photos/25716978-M.jpg

You need to experiment with the amount and the quality, but it should give you something like you saw.

The other possibility is maybe it was a Lens Babie. Hard to tell from the little photo.

Brad

[Steve Cavigliano]

I agree with Brad. You can play around in PS and get some really kewl effects, like those shown in both pics above, as well as in this one.

http://mk29.image.pbase.com/u9/slo2k/upload/3942318.trainw.jpg


If you have a camera with mechanical zoom, you can also do something similar by zooming in, or out while depressing the shutter release.

Steve

[Shay Stephens]

Optically, it is done by changing the focal length of the lens during the exposure.

As shown, you can do it in post as well.

What do you do to get this effect?

http://img.mtv3.fi/mn_kuvat/9767/61036.jpg

[gus]

Optically, it is done by changing the focal length of the lens during the exposure.

As shown, you can do it in post as well.
Yep thats it...sam & i were trying that method at yosemite. Cant be done well without a tripod. Just set the camera for a longish exposure (maybe a second or 2) & have it at full focal length & hit the button...as it has its shutter open just roll the lens to the other end of its focal lenght. Dont think it matters whether you go from max to min or the other way around.

Gus

[mercphoto]

Does this work?

http://mercphoto.smugmug.com/photos/25773395-M.jpg