Obtaining a blurred background

[gsgary]

Come on where are your shots we are waiting to rip you to pieces

 

[KmH]

I just take the picture into Photoshop and Gaussian blur the background out =p

Lens blur looks more real.

 

[mrpink]

In this shot... the hotel in the background was all the way across the Detroit River.


RedBull Air Race 2010 045ww by Matt Francosky, on Flickr





p!nK

 

[marmots]

here is an example of false bokeh that i made

 

[KmH]

I think you mean false shallow depth-of-field.

 

[Robin Usagani]

Or you can do panning to get blurred background

 

[Rancor]

Wouldn't you have to pan at the exact speed at which the subject is moving, without know how fast that actually is. That seems INSANELY hard.

 

[Stradawhovious]

Wouldn't you have to pan at the exact speed at which the subject is moving, without know how fast that actually is. That seems INSANELY hard.

Not at all. If you can follow it with the lens, you can pan. Go out and try it with cars on the highway. All it takes is a bit of practice, and a slightly slower shutter speed than normal.

Here is a watered down overview that my lazy ass google-fu came up with.

 

[gsgary]

Wouldn't you have to pan at the exact speed at which the subject is moving, without know how fast that actually is. That seems INSANELY hard.

Not that hard it's quite easy when you know how

 

[gsgary]

An expensive way to do it is get yourself a 300mmF2.8L , this was shot at F4.5

 

[480sparky]

Wouldn't you have to pan at the exact speed at which the subject is moving, without know how fast that actually is. That seems INSANELY hard.

How fast it's going is not relevant. Is that car going 10mph or 30 mph or 50 mph? What difference does it make?

It could be a child on a bike, 10 feet from you, going 5 mph. It could be the ISS overhead, traveling 17,500 mph. Panning is panning.... the speed of the subject makes no difference.