I’ve been enjoying playing with a Zoom Burst new photo editing extension that I’ve been building. It lets me add zoom burst effects to photos. If you don’t know what zoom burst is, I recommend you read this great article by Dahlia Ambrose. Or if you’d prefer, Wikipedia offers a great introduction. Before creating my Zoom Burst photo editing extension you needed an SLR (digital or otherwise) and a zoom lens to create zoom burst photos.
The procedure was:
- Set your shutter speed to 1/60th of a second or longer
- Press the shutter release in concert with changing the zoom focal length of the lens
In particular I really enjoyed creating zoom burst photos of lights at night. In early December, it felt like any time I saw Christmas lights, I wished I could create a zoom burst photo. Alas.
Now thanks to the miracle of Core Image, I’m able to convert this:
Into this:
I have been focussing my initial Zoom Burst efforts on getting it to work with photos of lights at night. I’m cautiously optimistic I’ll be able to extend it to also work with non-night photos. In the meantime, here are a few other photos before and after applying Zoom Burst.
Before
After
I think the controls in the Zoom Burst extension are fairly easy to figure out, but I’ve created a short tutorial, that is available here.
I had a bit of trouble organically discovering how to use a Photo Editing Extension. To prevent you from fumbling around like me, here is a list of instructions to open/use a Photo Editing Extension.
And here is a link to the app store:
