Dandelions Are Free - Installment #1

[Erik Lund]

OK, so it's four fingers and a thumb ...

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Not entirely sure in what direction you are heading Erik?

I repeat: the approach is so simple and immediately available on the camera.

I actually have provided a clue indirectly by the information posted.

[Øivind Tøien]

Very nice pastels, like a water color painting where the colors have been allowed floating into each other.
A try: I suspect the image is a reflection, turned 180 °. But I am not sure if the conditions of the surface together with limited depth of field was enough blurring, or if the subject has been further softened by holding and object or film in front of the lens.

[Erik Lund]

It looks like you held in your hand/fingers right in front of the lens, shooting through the fingers making strong front out of focus break up of the image in a similar way.
Looks like four or five strikes across the frame... Hence my guess.

But OK could be a double exposure as well

[Bjørn Rørslett]

One of your suggestions would be leading to the correct conclusion, yes. Which one?

[Øivind Tøien]

Well, it does not need to be a reflection. As Erik hints at, the blurring could be diffraction induced by letting light pass though smaller slots by holding an object close to the lens (like passing light between fingers as Erik suggested). This would account for variable blurring in different parts of the frame.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

A logical and tempting explanation, but it is not correct. Although the shaping of image blurs by putting a defined object in front of the lens is old hat and still an efficient if slightly unpredictable method.

[Erik Lund]

It's a double

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Perhaps close but no cigar ...

[Bjørn Rørslett]

A few final hints then:

Erik is on to something.

The site is on the shore of one of the largest lakes of Norway.

Due to the long fetch for the wind, waves pound the shore.

It is blowing really hard.

I am using a built-in feature of the camera.

The method is probably as old as photography itself.

[Asle F]

Then its sound like moving flowers and a relative long exposure. Actually what many of the rest of us is trying to avoid

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Your assumption and one of Erik's, and the case is coming close to be solved 

[Asle F]

I think people learn more by engaging their mental powers instead of getting the straight answer.

You are right for sure. Even if I am not up for copying your dandelions, and will never be, this thread has allready given me ideas for a lot of experimenting.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

That's the spirit. Good on you. Do ensure to show your achievements for the benefit of the community at large.

[Erik Lund]

If it's not shot through something or a double exposure I don't see how it could be done...

I have no idea how a reference to the god old film days has to do with what the camera otherwise can do