Cool Techniques

I’ve been experimenting with oddball photo techniques that could occasionally come in handy. Here’s an HDR image that I took:

And here are a couple of neat effects you can get in-camera with long exposure times; this one achieves a really nice soft-focus effect by slowly turning the focus ring while the shot is being taken:

And here’s the same sort of thing, only much more drastic — this is how people get those nifty motion-blur shots where it looks like you’re rushing towards or away from the subject: