45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos


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Hi All.

I found this link and thought of sharing it with you guys:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/24...on-blur-photos/

It has 45 great motion blur examples.

And show us your own work. Do you have any interesting Motion Blured Photos? POst them and give us a qiuck explanation on how you took them.

VidER

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Taken from a bridge over the M40 motorway outside oxford. Chose the spot because of an absence of motorway lighting, and the curve of the road. It was freezing cold and windy as hell when I was taking the shot, but it was fun. Lit completely with ambient headlights.

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Taken out of the window of a train outside Totness at around 100mph. Motion of me relative to train tracks was minimal, but motion relative to background was high, blurring the background nicely but leaving a nice sharp pair of tracks.

Guys check out this guide:

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog...ur-photography/

Very useful. If you are going to implement please share your results!

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Thanks Pandya for the photos you posted and the explanation. Do you remember your shooting settings? Did you touch the images using any software?

VidER

Some of those are cool but most of the still scenes with moving vehicles or humans just look like crappy shots. Like why are there people blurred at the fruit stand or the water slide? Clearly the objects in motion weren't the focus (no pun intended) of those shots. And some just don't make sense. Like the first one. The building was moving on him? In both directions?

Guys check out this guide:

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog...ur-photography/

Very useful. If you are going to implement please share your results!

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Thanks Pandya for the photos you posted and the explanation. Do you remember your shooting settings? Did you touch the images using any software?

VidER

Yeah. The light trails on the motorway was shot with an EOS40D and a 17-40L lens at 17mm, ISO100, f/4 and a 25 second shutter. The train tracks was shot with the same equipment, ISO100, 17mm, f/8 and 1/25th second shutter. Some minor post work was done on both images to tidy them up, as I do with all my shots, but effects of motion blur were entirely done with the equipment, not in photoshop. Black and white conversion was done in Photoshop on the train tracks.

rashikaviani - no, most of them are not done in photoshop. It's what happens when you have a camera shutter open for an extended amount of time.

Here's my best efforts... they were all taken on a normal ?70 point and shoot digital camera with no special features...

the one of big ben and the red bus, i actually used someones head as a tripod lol....

cant get hold of originals at the moment which are a lot better quality... not bad for an amateur tho ay? lol

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How did you do that?

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^ Just one of the shots I took on a freezing cold night. :)

Those 45 photo's are just amazing though!

Nice. Can you share the settings you used?

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How did you do it? Did you ask them to stop moving?

VidER

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Taken out of the window of a train outside Totness at around 100mph. Motion of me relative to train tracks was minimal, but motion relative to background was high, blurring the background nicely but leaving a nice sharp pair of tracks.

That looks strangely like one of mine:

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However. . .

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