Motion Blur
I am a sucker for motion blur, the thing I like about it
is that it is a purely photographic phenomenon that does
not exist in real life. You cannot see motion blur, we have
expressions like 'it went by so fast it was just a blur'
but I wonder whether such expressions came into use before
or after the invention of photography. Anyway,
nothing conveys the feeling of speed and excitement like
motion blur. You can try and fake it in photoshop but it's
hard to make it look really convincing.
What you need to do is take a lot of pictures at different
shutter speeds, which is now relatively painless with digital cameras
as you can easily delete the failures. Set the camera to shutter
priority and choose a very slow speed, this one was taken at 1/5
sec. Then pan with your subject to try and get the main subject
as sharp as possible (but not necessarily too sharp) and the background
will appear as streaks of light. The funfair is a great place for
this type of photo with the bright coloured lights.
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