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).
Photo by Ben McLeod – Shutter Speed – 8 seconds
Photo by zane&inzane – Exposure Time – 10 minutes
Photo by PhotoToasty – Composition of 3 images at shutter speeds of between 1.6 seconds and 25 seconds
Photo by Amnemona – No exposure settings given
Photo by Sara Heinrichs – Exposure Time: 20 seconds
Photo by Mace2000 – 50 second exposure time
Photo by WisDoc – Shutter Speed – 1/30
Photo by Mace2000 – Shutter Speed – 50 seconds
Photo by Wam Mosely – Shutter speed – 4/5 of a second
Photo by Mace2000 – Exposure Time – 43 seconds
Photo by jon madison – Exposure – photographer estimates somewhere between 30-40 minutes
Photo by thorinside – Shutter Speed – 13 seconds
Photo by tschnitzlein – No Exposure information given
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15 Stunning Images Using Blur to Portray Movement
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these are all so fabulous! i can’t pick a favorite!!
I was just working on this recently! Very excited to learn more! I love these effects!
The picture I linked to below is by far one of my favorite photos. It was taken by a high school student in Duluth, MN. He used a 45 minute exposure and did light painting using a spotlight. The picture can be seen here:
http://www.johncurleyphotoblog.com/2009/03/howto-you-can-do-this-too.html
Great post. Just another reason for me to get out my trusty tripod!
http://grtaylor2.com/2010/01/when-to-use-a-tripod/
these are some great photos i espically like the one with the frog, thats is that guys hat near the moon if you know what i mean. i like eating cheese
i just adore the first pic of the teddy bear, omg. i would put that on my wallllllll.
absolutely beautiful HDR photography, nice panning amazing work man….
Thank you so much for the info and samples on timed exposures, I have been sampling around with these a little lately. I live on a small ranch in Arizona way out of the city and I am enjoying taking these types of photos using them on skyscapes at night and time exposed shots of far away towns. It lets the light get into the lense and allows detail not seen anyother way in dark lighting.
beautiful!
i love every single one of them!
I have found that 1/15 works well when panning cyclists in motion in relatively normal outside lighting. I don’t know if this also makes sense: I am right handed, and it looks like panning from right to left works better for me. Here are some of my pans (some of them have textures applied to enhance the blur):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phatcamper/3868275031/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phatcamper/3855882179/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phatcamper/3681660819/imghttp://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4034373689/img
I wish there was some description on how to take these shots, cse they are amazing!!!!