45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos

[VidER]

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

[qdave]

awesome photos :)

[Premgenius]

awesome photos :)

second that

[Soldiers33]

cool.

[Prince Charming]

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.

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.

[VidER]

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

[capr]

some of these are relaly cool but most of them are just over done, i am assuming they were done in photoshop.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

i am assuming they were done in photoshop.

Nope, I think the point is the photography not the post-processing.

I have a couple from Bangkok, will post later...

[C++]

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?

[Prince Charming]

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.

[deactivated01032015]

Awesome photos. Some of them are great for wallpapers.

[Brad.]

Thanks (Y) Beautiful pictures.

[Numpad]

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

Edited November 24, 2008 by Numpad

[Andre]

[JMann Veteran]

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

Those 45 photo's are just amazing though!

[o0moonman0o]

[crazzy88ss]

it's motion blur, not bokeh, moonman :p

[o0moonman0o]

both are motion blurred.

[VidER]

How did you do that?

^ 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?

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

VidER

[JMann Veteran]

Nice. Can you share the settings you used?

VidER

Camera: Canon EOS 400D Digital

Exposure: 30 sec (30)

Aperture: f/16

Focal Length: 49 mm

ISO Speed: 400

Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV

Flash: Flash did not fire

:)

[o0moonman0o]

How did you do that?

Nice. Can you share the settings you used?

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

VidER

it just happened that they were moving too fast for the slow shutter.

[crazzy88ss]

http://flickr.com/photos/stephenkirsh/2607129264

http://flickr.com/photos/stephenkirsh/2606281511/

[Prince Charming]

Nice bit of panning crazy :)

[Sir Topham Hatt]

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:

However. . .

[ViZioN]

Any chance of getting that in wallpaper size JMann? (1280x1024) Looks awesome :D