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It's called smearing if the subject is blurred, done with a timed exposure, so that one part is sharp and the rest blurred as in a landscape with the water blurred into motion. Usually, one part of the photo is sharp as you are trying to create the illusion of movement in one part of the photo. If all the photo is smeared, probably smeared, but if this is a person talking about a photo that is blurred because they moved when it was taken or everything else moved when it was taken, by accident, I think you would blurred!
But technically, then, if everything was still, the photo would not be blurred. Everything would have to be moving across the slow shutter to make it all blurred.
But technically, then, if everything was still, the photo would not be blurred. Everything would have to be moving across the slow shutter to make it all blurred.
The same is true of a long exposure.
TN asked for the term "for a photo of something moving ".
Oh, yes, I meant if she was writing it - you couldn't just say a slow shutter image (or long/timed exposure) without mentioning the movement. It depends on the situation as to whether it matters if it was the subject or photographer moving.
I think I might take a photo of my kids on a moving carousel this week. If I generate an effect on the image I will know what it's called -- all thanks to TN.
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TN asked for the term "for a photo of something moving ".
Oh, yes, I meant if she was writing it - you couldn't just say a slow shutter image (or long/timed exposure) without mentioning the movement. It depends on the situation as to whether it matters if it was the subject or photographer moving.
I needed it for a poem, but in the end decided against using a technical term. They're not always that beautiful, are they?
Anyway, after a couple of days of adjusting with my literary spanner, the poem is now complete.