Work Diary - Blurring

In this session we changed the shutter speed of our cameras to a much slower shutter speed. Doing this made the photos blurry and made shooting outside impossible. It was difficult to know how to get good blurred shots and I wasn't too sure as to whether or not there was a particular type of blurring that I was looking for. 



I was trying to create photos using blurring that represented speed or movement, this photo doesn't show that. It was hard to keep any one thing in focus. Had photos like this one worked I think they could have looked quite good.












This photograph was chosen by my tutor for one of my straight prints. I didn't think that it was a good photo and certainly didn't think that it was the kind of blurring that was being looked for in this session.













If I were to continue with this session the I would stop looking for a particular type of blurring and just look for pictures of blurring in general, as it is what we were looking for; not speed nor movement, just the visial element that cannot be seen by the eye.

Definition Page - Blurring

Dictionary Definition - (Verb) Make or become unclear or less distinct.

• Unclear
• Movement
• Speed
• Distorted

This photograph uses blurring to show that the cheetah is moving very fast. Blurring is very interesting as it is something that cannot be seen by the human eye but is caught when using a camera. When a picture is blurred it usually implies that something is moving and is often used to express high speeds, like in this picture. The background is blurred while the cheetah is in focus, this was done by staying in line with the cheetah and moving with it to retain focus. This shows that the Cheetah is moving.

This photograph also shows movement and speed. The man is in focus as he is standing still in front of a moving train that is travelling past him at high speeds. The train is clearly blurred and on the move.












This photograph uses blurring to show the movement of a double-decker bus. Everything else in the picture is still, while the vehicle is extremely blurred, this is a very good example of blurring in photography.

This photograph is interesting as it shows movement of many different vehicles at once. It is often used in videos rather than photographs and shows the speed and mass of traffic in cities. I like what these photographs do but believe they'd be quite difficult to accomplish.











Blurring is a lack of focus in photographs that is used to show movement, speed or perhaps a chaotic environment in photos. 

 Image bank - Blurring

All of these photographs are examples of movement blurring. Blurring represents movement in the picture and is special as it shows something that cannot be seen by the eye. The concepts of most of these photographs are the same, most show focus on one object and represent it's movement, though the photo of the people using swings shows the background in focus and the people blurred. This also shows movement in the people.