New "twist" experimenting with artistic photography

[Wolfsburg]

Tried a new technique I discovered, I've never seen it done anywhere before yet

Note: this is a very crude, not well planned, spur of the moment shot, and its really hard to get just right. Im aware its fuzzy and out of focus, I just want to know what you think of the general idea of what Im attempting, and any thought you think might improve this method.

I obtained this shot by twisting the camera side to side while taking a slightly longer exposure to than need to blur out edges in a circular motion. I attempted this free hand and tried to keep the camera as centered as possible, its difficult because you have to be moving so much for this to work while the shutter is open, so most everything comes out blurry. The golf cart was driving away when i took this so I think Im lucky I caught it at all. I think with some practice and patients some really cool photographs can come of this method. I havent edited this in any way, straight from the camera to flickr to here.





EXIF

Canon Rebel T1i
F/22
1/20 sec
ISO 100
35mm

[prabbit237]

Not trying to rain on yer parade or anything but there's filters for photoshop (and I'm pretty sure gimp) that'll do the same thing on the computer and thus keep the center part a lot clearer (since the camera never moves sideways or vertically at all.) It can definitely make for interesting pictures but unless you're using a flash to freeze one object's motion (and then using the camera movement to blur the rest) it's really a lot easier to do something like this (as well as the more common "zoom the lens in or out during exposure") via post-processing, in my opinion. You can also make sure the center of the effect is exactly where you want it (even if that's not the center of the picture) when done on the computer.

[dakwegmo]

It is an interesting technique, but not really new. I did this one two years ago, and that was after seeing some work from other photographers that were doing something similar: Spiraling Shapes III | Invisible Green Photography

As for your implementation, the concentric circles lead your eye to the cart, but you definitely want to use a flash to freeze your subject, since there's not much of a payoff for your eye to follow that line of circles to the cart.