45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos
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.
Motion blur is frequently used to show a sense of speed. You can achieve this effect in a usual scene using slow shutter speeds. You may want to take a look at resources provided in the end of the article — they show how one can add the motion blur effect in photos.
This article presents 45 beautiful examples of motion blur in photography. This showcase isn’t supposed to be the ultimate and complete selection of motion blur images — it is supposed to provide you with some inspiration of what can be done with motion blur. All pictures are linked to the author’s pages. You may want to explore further works of the photographers we’ve featured below.
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Beauty of Motion Blur
Last Click
The picture presented below is not motion blur, yet it somehow fits to the post. The picture is titled “Meaning of Life”.
Further Resources
Area for further articles and related resources.
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- How to Capture Motion Blur in Photography
The natural way to create motion blur using cameras - How to create Motion Blur
An Adobe Photoshop tutorial. - Top Best 55 Photoshop Tutorials For Professional Photographers
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- How to Capture Motion Blur in Photography
- Glow Flickr Pool
- Blurred Flickr Pool
- Motion Blur Flickr Pool
Related articles
You may also want to take a look at the related articles which we have published earlier:
Giovanny
December 12th, 2008 8:48 amIncredible… yea, I don’t see any motion blur on the last one. I’m a rookie photographer and I can’t wait til I manage to know how to do those things.
Great Job!
Mike Kelly
December 22nd, 2008 2:44 pmAnd they say taking a blurry picture is a bad thing ….. Amazing, and visually stunning…
Mike Kelly
sam
January 4th, 2009 10:47 amEs increible lo que se puede lograr con una camara fotografica, (bueno no solo con la camara) tambien con la creatividad. Exelente muy inspiradoras
kiim
January 12th, 2009 12:21 amAwsome selection!
Shaby Jutt
January 12th, 2009 5:51 amAmazing Homi u got my Heart
Kort
January 13th, 2009 6:49 amNice! I’ve played around with blur photo myself…a little less representational than most of what is here.
Blurstrations:
http://www.photo-genesis.net/gallery.php?galleryid=9155
KJ
January 14th, 2009 5:34 amholy crap!
Crafty Cript
October 7th, 2011 10:03 amcrap’s what you get all over your dick every night you poo packer… pricks like you dont get anywhere but the back of a guy’s ass,
FUCKIN WHOREEE….. or SLUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(-_____-)
Kariss
January 16th, 2009 2:36 amwow………totally beautiful………..
Crafty Cript
October 5th, 2011 1:14 pmyou bet your ass hun ;)
ash
January 23rd, 2009 9:24 pmFantastic images!!!!!!!! cool effects !!!!!!!!!! inspirational
Víctor
February 5th, 2009 5:58 pmI really falled in love with your fhotos!!!
Congratulations.
Saludos desde México.
woooo
February 22nd, 2009 5:14 pmASSCLOWN
Willy Yanto Wijaya
February 24th, 2009 9:43 pmCool
Willy Yanto Wijaya
nisha ajim
March 8th, 2009 8:20 amThese scenes are very much inspired me .
prasad
April 7th, 2009 8:54 pmwow nice pics
masjaliteng
April 17th, 2009 11:09 ami like blur…
venkatesh
April 19th, 2009 7:39 pmwow!……what a wonderful amazing pictures!
Thomas
April 21st, 2009 2:01 amLove the dice. Awesome shot
sheroz
April 30th, 2009 12:25 pmvery nice ;;;;;cool effect ;;; i love the effect of 1st,14st and 16
nastay bawlz.
May 12th, 2009 6:57 amthese all suck nastay bawlz.
Bim
July 9th, 2009 5:51 amSome great photos!
but what would be even more useful is to know what cameras were used to take these photos and what settings were used? So that we can actually learn how to take shots like this.
Thanks smashing mag as always. Keep up the good work!
Lauren
July 15th, 2009 11:46 amNewbie question: How were these pictures created? Is it a matter of shutter speed?
friends
August 4th, 2009 1:13 pmthe pics are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Crystal
August 15th, 2009 7:28 pmthey where soooooooooo koooool!………………the best best best eva
toocold85
October 13th, 2009 10:28 pmnice. i love those ones
Gustavo Viquez
February 12th, 2010 7:07 amExcelent, good examples of talent talent behind the camera.
adam
February 17th, 2010 5:50 am… and that’s what I call smashingphotos.com! ;)
evelyn
April 21st, 2010 1:19 ami like very much……
there are really beautiful…..
jack
April 22nd, 2010 8:27 amunbelivable i seen this only in dream good very very nice
Budding
June 6th, 2010 7:46 pmCan someone kindly explain to me what are the methods to control motion in an image? How they work? And why I would use these in various areas of photography ?
inspirational
October 26th, 2010 3:12 amgreat post. i love this. keep posting please… from submitlinks.biz
Alice
October 27th, 2010 7:24 amomg the one with the dice was amazing! I’m only 16 but i’m also a very avid photographer and to see pictures like these only makes me want to be that much better!
nanakofi
November 8th, 2010 11:14 ami think i love it
Aqeel
November 22nd, 2010 3:44 amI love it
Aqeel
November 29th, 2010 12:06 amHi,
Its really wonderful pictures amazing.
divya
February 24th, 2011 4:19 amMind blowing !!!! i am almost in faint
Catherine
March 19th, 2011 1:58 amLoooooooved it!
Extremely inspirational. I take a lot of motion blur photos, a lot of which include lights and the city. This has given me some interesting ideas for the near future.
Thanks heaps, this rocks!
Catherine, 12 years old, attends photography class.
Jack
April 16th, 2011 9:34 ami found another technique here http://photograpyreview.blogspot.com/2011/04/photography-tip-motion-blur.html
little singh
June 22nd, 2011 3:20 amwwwowww!!
pic’s wer amazing dude!!
Crafty Cript
October 5th, 2011 1:17 pmwhere’s your towel today bitch?
NITIN
July 23rd, 2011 7:14 amAwesome Pic
Kristine Lo
July 31st, 2011 9:59 pmamazing pictures! WOW!
bob
September 11th, 2011 12:30 pmThey are soooooo beautiful…. just amazing!!!!!
saisindhu
September 24th, 2011 4:47 amohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wat apics hts off to this site congratulations mind blowing tttttttttoooooooooooooo2222222222 good
extrordinary
saisindhu
September 24th, 2011 4:48 amnice
Crafty Cript
October 5th, 2011 1:16 pmshut the fuck up bitch nigga prick ass
Crafty Cript
October 5th, 2011 1:18 pmThese piccy babies broke my pant zipper because my erection was sooooooooooo big :D
diana
October 15th, 2011 6:18 amWow, one of the best sites. Great photos no matter the theme.
moalla
October 21st, 2011 9:51 amit,s very good
lizel viola
October 31st, 2011 10:05 pmoh !!! that’s great photos …. :)
Johan G
November 6th, 2011 7:37 amI have a weakness for motion blur. It’s somehow very very pleasing to my eye, and mind.
I also must say that the photograph of the dog (the 19th photograph?) looks very reminiscent of Falkor from the movie The NeverEnding Story (1984).