Tree explosion.

After an idea from snappinjez I thought it's been a year since I did an exploding christmas tree. This time I taped a rubber band to the zoom to try to get an even zoom. Still got a bit of shake. Maybe I need to support the lens a bit better.

This is an HDR of the tree, the lights are zoomed during a 3s exposure. The lights are then cranked down in levels to get the darks really dark and leave the lights. Plonk the lights on top of the HDR with lighten blend mode and presto!

Now I need to work on composition a bit more.