Motion photos

Explore the world of motion photography with these 20 creative motion photography ideas. Create sensational images that make jaws drop.

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Photos taken with a camera do not represent a single moment of time. Due to technological constraints these shots stand for some scene over a brief period of time. This time frame depends on the camera's shutter speed. In motion blur, any object moving with respect to the camera will look blurred or smeared along the direction of relative motion.

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Blurring the Action

When photographing movement, you have a couple of options on how to capture it: either freeze the motion completely, or allow the subject to show a bit of motion blur. Motion blur is simply when you get blur to just certain parts of your image - those areas that had a subject or item moving faster