The Other Place wrote:
Nice work!

As I recall, Hiro made a few images with a zoom technique, pausing the zoom incrementally to create "steps" in the expansion/contraction of the subject.

Thanks, and thanks for the reference to Hiro. I see he made surrealistic photographs and that he died just two years ago. I've searched online for examples of his zoom technique but so far haven't come across any. If you know of any links to such, perhaps you could provide them.

Weldphoto wrote:
I like the effect you got esp. the first. Was the camera on a tripod or handheld. In either case it worked. Years ago I owned the first of the LensBabys and had fun, in a similar way, with it. It was very primitive and unpredictable also.

That first, which reminded me of experiments by Eadweard Muybridge, also included some rotating of the camera. All the experiments of this sort that I've done have been handheld. While I've heaard of the LensBaby, I've never experimented with it.

Visual Delights wrote:
Thanks, and thanks for the reference to Hiro. I see he made surrealistic photographs and that he died just two years ago. I've searched online for examples of his zoom technique but so far haven't come across any. If you know of any links to such, perhaps you could provide them.

Hiro did a series of images using multi-exposures, zooms. colored filters and silhouettes.

The only photos that I found from that series in my brief search:




... and this one:

The Other Place wrote:

Hiro did a series of images using multi-exposures, zooms. colored filters and silhouettes.

The only photos that I found from that series in my brief search:




... and this one:

Thanks for those two.