Making Motion Blur Work
Motion blur is not all bad. Despite all the efforts that we normally make to avoid it and correct it, which we’ve just examined in more than usual depth, there are occasions when it can actually make the image.
Most photography has some documentary quality to it in the sense that it is showing a lucid view of something—a place, an event, a person—but photographs also have graphic qualities just as do paintings. The streaking and smearing effect of significant blur reduces the information content, but it can make the image more interesting, even intriguing. Sometimes photographs work better if they don’t reveal their content all at once.
In particular, motion blur does best what its name suggests. It gets across the sense ...
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