Proud Photography Blog

Blur, traditionally, is a pain for new photographers.  You think you have capture the dream image only to get home and find unwanted lines of blur than ruin the photograph.  But don’t forget that blur can be a creative tool that adds dramatic effects and emotion to an image.
The key to creating successful camera blur is to make sure it adds to the image and isn’t there for no particular reason, because then it will just look like an accident.  You have to look at what you are trying to photograph and decide if it’s worth including blur – some things may look odd with movements, some items just don’t suit it.

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A camera works more or less like our eyes. Light reflected off surfaces passes through the lens of our eye and falls on the retina. These impulses are carried by the optic nerve to our brain, which interprets the image, and we can see. A camera records light that bounces off the subject. The various hues and shades of reflected light pass through the camera lens and fall on a film or a digital sensor in a particular pattern, producing a sharp image. This image is recorded on film or a memory chip, either for printing or viewing on a computer screen. Read the rest of this entry »