Zoom burst

By combining longer shutter speeds with fast zooms, you can create dramatic effects from light trails. This is referred to as the zoom burst technique, and in this technical challenge we want to see your most creative examples of it. Popular subjects for zoom burst photography can be anything from festive lights, to street lamps, to natural light breaking through the branches of a tree, and countless other light sources – all of which can produce dazzling, abstract images. It is also fairly commonplace in sports photography to give a sense of explosive speed from a blur. You can grab a few more tips from our judge Robert Rhead’s blog post on zoom burst, this post on DC World, and by checking out the entries in our last zoom burst challenge. Let’s see what you come up with!

The expert's winner and the crowd's winner will receive Contrastly's 'Complete Lightroom Presets Bundle' featuring over 1000 presets worth $99. The highest placed entries will appear on Photocrowd's 'Best images' page and social media channels.

Every photo submitted will be available for the crowd to rate once the submissions period has ended. You can see all the images uploaded to a contest, but will need to rate them to see how they’re ranked once the rating period begins.

Some contests on Photocrowd also have a judge. After the submission period closes the judge chooses their favourite images and writes some image reviews. The crowd and judge results will be announced on the same day.

Entries closed

30 April 2016

Rating

30 April 2016 to 9 May 2016

Winners announced

9 May 2016

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