Zoom burst is a photographic technique, attainable with zoom lenses with a manual zoom ring. Using the technique involves zooming while the shutter is open with a relatively slow shutter speed, generally below 1/60th of a second.
Although this kind of Zoom Burst involves one more technique as you may have presumed already, that is Light Trails using a long Exposure.
This one was taken at a shutter speed of approx. 30 seconds. I zoomed in at the central part where you see the well lit gate to the mall, clicked the shutter button (opened the shutter, the eye of your camera that is), and after keeping it so for a second or two, zoomed out slowly and steadily, to get a smooth trail… then I kept it zoomed out for the vehicle trails. Notice the red ones are trails from tail-lamps of the bikes going away, ad the white/yellow ones are the headlamps. I used my Canon EOS 60D with EF-S 18-135mm IS for this.
Zoom bursts are more popular with pictures of flowers, or simple facial shots.
Nishant Kapoor.
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