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15 Stunning Images Using Blur to Portray Movement

Movement

Photo by Mr Bones – No exposure settings supplied

Today, as a followup to our post earlier in the week A Beginners Guide to Capturing Motion in Your Photography I want to post a series of posts from Flickr that all illustrate a variation on the same theme – movement.

The following shots are all of moving subjects where the photographer has made the choice to set their camera to capture the movement as blur rather than freezing it. This is in all cases by choosing (or letting the camera choose) a ‘slow’ shutter speed (although by slow you’ll see that the speeds (noted under each image) vary from anything from 1/30 second to up to 40 minutes).

Blur

Photo by Ben McLeod – Shutter Speed – 8 seconds

Long-Exposure

Photo by zane&inzane – Exposure Time – 10 minutes

Creative-Blur

Photo by PhotoToasty – Composition of 3 images at shutter speeds of between 1.6 seconds and 25 seconds

Movement-Blur

Photo by Heidi Morton – Taken with a Blackberry! (awesome huh!)

Moving

Photo by Sara Heinrichs – Exposure Time: 20 seconds

Long-Exposure-Landscape

Photo by Mace2000 – 50 second exposure time

Blurred

Photo by WisDoc – Shutter Speed – 1/30

Blur-Movement

Photo by Mace2000 – Shutter Speed – 50 seconds

Urban-Blur

Photo by Wam Mosely – Shutter speed – 4/5 of a second

Blur-Movement-1

Photo by Mace2000 – Exposure Time – 43 seconds

Long-Exposure-Blur

Photo by jon madison – Exposure – photographer estimates somewhere between 30-40 minutes

Dreamy-Long-Exposure

Photo by thorinside – Shutter Speed – 13 seconds

Light-Trails

Photo by tschnitzlein – No Exposure information given

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Darren Rowse
Darren Rowse

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