Ritchie_Portfolio3

After doing A LOT of trial and errors, this is the image I got in the end. There were many tricks I had to try out to get to this point. I started with the camera zoomed in and then started slowly zooming out, which made the light go to the very edge of the image. I also started having a higher shutter speed and I would set a timer for two seconds and then slowly start zooming out to take up about half of the shutter speed time and then let the image sit for the rest of the time to make it so the Christmas tree was in focus. One issue was while zooming out I had to make sure my hand was pretty still and not shaky, otherwise the image would end up with very bumpy lines. I also used Lightroom to edit the final image.

Done