Tag Archives: Blur
How to Blur Water in Landscape Photos: Essential Tips
We’ve all seen tons of landscape images with silky smooth water. As our eyes cannot see the flow of water in such a way naturally, the blurry water bodies easily become the main point of attraction in an image. If … Continue reading
Go With The Flow – Using Slow Shutter Speed to Create Motion Blur
The post Go With The Flow – Using Slow Shutter Speed to Create Motion Blur appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Kevin Landwer-Johan. Starting out as a photography assistant in a daily newspaper, I had one … Continue reading
Blur and Creative Photography – Why Your Images Don’t Need To Be 100% Sharp
Blur and creative photography – Why your images don’t need to be 100% sharp all of the time. I have an image of a blueberry shot on the end of a spoon with my macro lens. It has a very … Continue reading
Zoom Blur Effect
1 Step 1 Open up your original photo file that you wish to apply the zoom to and create two duplicate layers of your Background layer. You do this by dragging your Background layer to the Create A New Layer … Continue reading
How to Create Realistic Bokeh and Blur Effects using Photoshop
Perhaps you want to creatively improve your image, already taken with a depth of field and bokeh or create this effect from scratch for a specific composition. In this article, you will learn how to work with new and old … Continue reading
How to Blur the Background of a Portrait Using the Magnetic Lasso Tool in Photoshop
Have you ever taken a portrait and wished that the background were just a little bit more blurry? You can address background blur in-camera by changing either your aperture or the distance of your subject from the background. However, there’s … Continue reading
Tips for Using the Blur Filters in Photoshop
For most photographers before they even press that shutter button, they have already pictured the type of shot in their heads. What exactly do I mean by that? Well for example, a sports photographer may use a panning technique to … Continue reading
How to Achieve Background Blur or Bokeh
If I show you two different portraits, one with a blurred background and one with a sharp background, you will automatically prefer the one with the creamy bokeh. Why? Because that’s just how it is. No, the bokeh effect is … Continue reading
Intentional Blur- How to Create it and Why it’s Awesome
Open up any photography magazine or website, and I promise there will be at least one article, and a half dozen ads, discussing image sharpness and how to get it through technique or gear. Don’t get me wrong, sharpness is … Continue reading
Photogrpapher Karl Taylor Explains How to Shoot Dancing Photos With Flash and Motion Blur
Portrait shoots with dancers can be insanely fun. They typically have unprecedented body awareness and physical capabilities that are a blast to photograph. Shooter Karl Taylor put together a tutorial with light-maker Broncolor (this isn’t a sponsored post, but the … Continue reading
Broncolor: How to Shoot Dance with Motion Blur & Detail
From Karl Taylor Photography: In this video both myself and Urs Recher look at the techniques for combining fast exposures and long exposures to create a beautiful dance portraits where we reveal both the detail frozen and the motion blur recorded. … Continue reading