UNIT 1 - MOVEMENT - AO2 - BLUR PHOTOGRAPHY

What is blur photography?

So basically blur photography is when photographers use a "slow-ish" shutter speed to create a sense of movement yet draw focus to a subject they want to show. Heres an example, here we have a well aligned photo of a dog running through a field. the shutter speed is way too slow to have everything in detail so what the photographer has done is he has tracked his camera at the dog whilst its running, this has allowed the photographer to have the dog in focus. This has the effect that it draws our eyes into the centre as it is the only thing in focus.

I have done this type of photography once before last December whilst walking on the cold, isolated beaches of John O'Groats During my walk I encountered a energetic wooly dog who was running up and down a hill. I saw my opportunity, I set my cameras settings with a shutter speed of around 1/60th of a second, a ISO value of 450 (Due to the extreme light conditions the John O'Groats has e.g. sun rises 9am sets 1pm only 4 hours of daylight...) and an F.stop value of 8 I tracked the dog as it jumped creating this piece.

My new piece..

Recently I encountered a photo of interest and relevance to this type of photography while I was researching different types of movement back in AO1 and I came across something I had not thought about..Vehicles at night they can create stunning light trails using the same shutter speeds photographers can take pictures of people whilst behind / in front of passing trains, cars or buses this can create shots like this.

So when I was in Lincoln I decided to experiment with this type of shot at a road crossing. obviously I could take the shot of someone in a train station with a light on him which would create a setting and I can another time however here is the result I have taken at the time of the experiment.

Camera Settings: ISO 1,600. Shutter speed: 1/15. Aperture F/4.5