How did you do that? awesome. Photo of the week Faces

Hi Pavamo, just curious how you shot that, very cool. Scott

Hi Pavamo, just curious how you shot that, very cool. Scott

Would imagine something like 'shooting on a low shutter speed while zooming'???

Is this possiple??

If that is the case how did you hold the camera so steady??

Otherwise digital manipulation???

Either way its a fantastic image Pavmo- well done!!!

Go on- tell us the secret!

I may be mistaken but it looks very much like the zoom special effect in Photoshop.

I would make a feathered selection of the face so that is not affected and try the motion blur / zoom tool in Photoshop.

Great picture and effect BTW.

Paul C

The zoom effect can be achieved using Photoshop.

I use CS3

Here's how I do mine

original image jpg.

select > Filter > Blur > Radial blur > Zoom > set amount to 80 or more

Use the history brush to restore the face and VOILA!!

Hope this is of help

Nige Wade

Very cool. Thanks for the tip.

Just had a PM from Ralphy asking about the history brush tool on Photoshop CS3, it's really easy to use but quite difficult to explain.

I found this link which shows how its done so rather than PM Ralphy back I thought it best to share with you all.

History Brush

I hope this is of use and would love to see your resulting images.

Nige.

thanks guys for all the cool info, I only have elements 6.0 so I don't think I have the history brush. Was able to do the blur just fine...Maybe I can try it at work. Thanks again. Scott

Just had a PM from Ralphy asking about the history brush tool on Photoshop CS3, it's really easy to use but quite difficult to explain.

I found this link which shows how its done so rather than PM Ralphy back I thought it best to share with you all.

 

History Brush

 

I hope this is of use and would love to see your resulting images.

 

Nige.

That's great; thanks for posting it!

I look forward to having a go soon.

R

That's great; thanks for posting it!

 

I look forward to having a go soon.

 

R

great tip, thanks

Hi,

I couldn't resist to give it a try

Thanks for the tip !

Really cool shots Guys.

This technique is just the job to salvage those shots with a sharp subject and poor negative space which would have ended up in the bin.

Try the Radial Blur it gives interesting results.

Lets see some more

Nige

I sooo love these ideas. Thanks!!!

Nige, I really like yours....

my first attempt...had a few extra minutes at work today. Scott ps. thanks you all

here's number two...down the drain!

Nice job scott. I gotta try that.

Wow Scott just love the images especially the Angel fish, that really is a cool effect

Lets see some more!!

Nige

I do it by making a duplicate layer, applying the blur filter, then adding a black mask over the in-focus area, smoothing the edges with grey tones to get a partially blurred effect.

Photoshop cheating, of course.

Tim

Hi,

Loved the orginal so had to give it a try and copying is the highest form of flattery, so here goes.

Orignal

Photoshop version

Cheers,

Richard B.

Here's a couple more.

Fun with Nemo !

Mantis Shrimp from Wakatobi !