MovementPhoto 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).

BlurPhoto by Ben McLeod – Shutter Speed – 8 seconds

Long-ExposurePhoto by zane&inzane - Exposure Time – 10 minutes

Creative-BlurPhoto by PhotoToasty – Composition of 3 images at shutter speeds of between 1.6 seconds and 25 seconds

Movement-BlurPhoto by Heidi Morton - Taken with a Blackberry! (awesome huh!)

 

MovingPhoto by Sara Heinrichs – Exposure Time: 20 seconds

Long-Exposure-LandscapePhoto by Mace2000 – 50 second exposure time

BlurredPhoto by WisDoc – Shutter Speed – 1/30

Blur-MovementPhoto by Mace2000 – Shutter Speed – 50 seconds

Urban-BlurPhoto by Wam Mosely – Shutter speed – 4/5 of a second

Blur-Movement-1Photo by Mace2000 – Exposure Time – 43 seconds

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

Dreamy-Long-ExposurePhoto by thorinside – Shutter Speed – 13 seconds

Light-TrailsPhoto by tschnitzlein – No Exposure information given

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