Brashley Photography

I have seen numerous photographs across the internet of motion blur.  I am beginning to quite like this effect.  So I thought I’d give it a go.

For the above shot.  I just sent the image into Photoshop from Lightroom.  Then once in Photoshop, I duplicated the layer.

Then I added a motion blur filter with the following settings

Only the distance I used was 128.

For this image.

For the above image, I used the motion blur filter twice.  Once at a setting of 128 and then again at 145.

On both images, I removed the blur from the bottom section of the image by adding a layer mask and then using a gradient filter to mask out the area where I didn’t want the blur effect.

Using the above techniques to me, makes images appear to have more of an abstract feel.  Which again perfectly fits into this week’s Lens-Artists challenge set by Patti called Abstract.