If you don’t have a zoom lens or you’d like to manipulate a certain image in this style then this tutorial for GIMP should help you achieve a similar effect!
The final result!
Zoom Lens Blur Effect – Inspiration
On March - 5 - 2010
Here is a small selection of inspiration for the Lens Zoom Blur Effect:
Lens Zoom-Blur Effect – Photography
On February - 27 - 2010
Most of the time blur is really frustrating for photographers, but blurring can be used to create very interesting effects like in long exposures. The ‘Zoom-Blur Effect’ as it’s sometimes called can be used to draw the viewer’s eyes into the photograph and onto the subject with the edges blurred, our eyes tend to disregard the blurred parts and look for the sharp in-focus areas.
In this short simple tutorial I’ll show you how to achieve this effect. Unfortunately if you have a compact digital camera or do not have a manual zoom lens it won’t be possible to achieve the same effect, however I’ll show you how to replicate this effect in GIMP 
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Drawing attention inwards on the sign
Shot of the Day #6
On February - 8 - 2010
I was recently in Penang, Malaysia and relaxed on the beach for a few days. I took some interesting shots of the locals as you might see in photos to come as apart of my shot of the day series. So stay around and I hope you enjoy my photographs !
By the beach at Sunset - Penang, Malaysia
