45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos

By Vailancio Rodrigues and Smashing Editorial Team

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 artificially achieve this effect in a usual scene using cameras with a slow shutter speed. Also Adobe Photoshop can be used for this purpose, though sometimes images may look unnatural and unprofessional. 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.

• How to create a fast car in Adobe Photoshop using Motion Blur


• 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


• Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of


• 35 Fantastic HDR Pictures


• How to Capture Motion Blur in Photography


• Glow Flickr Pool


• Blurred Flickr Pool


• Motion Blur Flickr Pool

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Tribute To Graffiti: 50 Beautiful Graffiti Artworks

Street culture and graffiti are well-known for being provocative, appealing, bold and uncompromising. Originally used by gangs to mark their territory in some urban area, graffitis have now become a rich medium for unrestricted expression of ideas and statements. In fact, creative designers and artists across the globe use this form of art to deliver their message and showcase their work.

Probably the most prominent graffiti artist is Banksy, a famous pseudo-anonymous British artist whose works focus on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His art has appeared in cities around the world; it’s worth mentioning that Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti or mount exhibitions of screenprints in commercial galleries. You can explore Banksy’s works in the Time’s slideshow The World According To Banksy. However, many different artists explore graffiti in a variety of ways.

In this episode of Monday Inspiration series we are presenting a tribute to street art and graffiti — over 50 examples of beautiful and impressive graffiti artworks. Hopefully everybody will find some inspiration at least in some of the works showcased below. Feel free to explore the works of artists by following the links to their sites.

Graffiti Art

Michael.jh

Mrzer

Deuce 7

zevs

imminentdisaster

Banksy

Marquis Lewis

Retna Saber Revok SeventhLetter

Mr Mucho

unknown

Wall Spankers Project
Our goal is to bring together international artists and designers in a collaborative, sharing environment. The website serves as an online gallery showcasing the artists involved in the sticker swap. Currently 4 issues are released.

Muck

obey

Lady Pink: Sandra Fabara
Lady Pink is a legend. In the 1980s she made a name for herself as one of the only females capable of competing with men in the graffiti subculture.

Xenz: Graeme Brusby

SABER

6emeia

Vancouver Street Art

Collective Graffiti, Chiado, Lisbon

Paopao

Jakedobkin

Lois In Wonderland

Wouldpkr

Hammotime

Abigaelarachnid

Newfie Bullet

K.E.L.P

Newfie Bullet

Loupiote

Stuart Herbert

Seetwist

Wickedcliche

Akbar Simonse

Marco

Josepalencia

Sindios69

Tonogayora

Guy Fawkes

Bitzi

Kekko73

Cloud-TA

Loupiote

Laughing Squid

Further Resources

• Graffwriter
  
  Create your custom graffiti artwork.


• Reverse Graffiti
  
  Eco-friendly graffiti created by actually cutting through and cleaning up grit to leave a lasting impression.


• Graffiti finds its place in contemporary art
  
  A young French graffiti artist who goes by the tag name Teurk, clambered onto the ruins of an old bridge and set to work with an aerosol can.


• Crookedbrains:Beautiful Graffiti Art
  
  Graffiti from the walls of Israel/Palestine,Brazil and Ukranian


• Rene Gagnon:Post-Graffiti Abstract Expressionism
  
  Bridging the Gap Between Urban Graffiti Art and Contemporary Abstract Expressionism.


• Artist Draws ‘Clean’ Graffiti from Dirty Walls
  
  A British street artist known as Moose creates graffiti by cleaning dirt from sidewalks and tunnels

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