28. BLURRING MOTION
AT FIRST IT may seem counterintuitive to want to blur the subject of a photograph, but it’s an effective method of illustrating motion. Still photographs by their nature don’t show movement, but with the right type of blur, a subject’s speed and direction can be illustrated in a dynamic visual manner.
Once you’ve decided to use a blur technique, the next choice is whether to let the subject move across the frame of the camera or to move the camera with the subject. If you choose to let the subject do the moving, it will result in a streak of blur relative to the length of the shutter speed. Depending on your framing, you may ...
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