Quote Originally Posted by mimitabby
Hammer, your photo is really cool! how did you get that effect?
Thanks!

I duplicated the photo, put a radial blur on the top layer and then erased the portions that I wanted to stay in focus. I did it in photoshop.

So, no... I'm sorry to say it wasn't a manual zoom. Though, I do enjoy doing that effect. However, I haven't been very successful doing the pan while taking a longer exposure picture, so doing both at the same time could be tricky. And also, I wasn't taking this photo of myself... so I would have another skill I'd have to master at the same time. To be fair, I do tend to prefer images made inside of the camera, though sometimes you do have to cheat and digitally manipulate a photo on the computer to make it a little more interesting.