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Blue Implosion

More from the Chatfield Botanic Gardens Trail of Lights.

 

I used the Zoom Burst, or what I call the Warp Speed Effect to get this. I framed the shot the way I wanted, started the exposure, and after a second I manually zoomed IN on my subject. I don't start the zoom immediately after the shutter opens because I like to have enough of the subject in the image so that it's recognizable before I start the zoom effect.

 

I tweaked the JPG version of this shot because again I couldn't get what I wanted out of the RAW conversion. Does anyone know what Nikon does specifically in their in-camera JPG conversion and noise reduction to produce their images? I guess I don't yet know enough about RAW conversion to know all the little tricks to get it to come out right.

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Uploaded on December 10, 2008
Taken on December 2, 2008