Here is the second picture from the Blue Bell experimental series. After reading about these techniques in books I finally tried it out. This was taken with the sun at my back with my macro lens. I was about 2 feet away from a patch of Blue Bells. I closed the aperture down to lengthen my shutter speed. Then, while holding down the shutter release, I moved the camera up and down at an ever increasing rate. After about 10 frames I would stop and look through the images to see if anything looked good. The only editing for this image was the color and exposure. All of the blurring was accomplished in camera. I really like how the purple seems to wrap around the green stems like vaporous clouds of purple smoke.
Camera = Canon 40D
Lens = Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro
Shutter = 1/10 second
Aperture = f/32
Focal Length = 100mm
Exp Comp = +0 ev
Flash = off
ISO = 320
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