Creative In-Camera Motion Blur | Inside Fashion and Beauty with Lindsay Adler

Use this technique to add creative streaks of light and blur to your image, while your subject’s face is still in focus! The key to this creative lighting technique is mixing studio strobes, a constant light source, camera movement, and shutter drag. Let’s take a look at “Creative In-Camera Motion Blur“ Step 1: Use a strobe to light your subject. Anywhere that the strobe illuminates will be frozen in place. Step 2: Introduce a constant light into the scene. This can be a modeling light, a work light, an LED, a flashlight… etc! In this case, I have chosen a Nanlite Pavo because it is inexpensive and has a full RGB range (plus it’s quite bright!) Step 3: Change your shutter speed to a long/slow shutter speed. Start with somewhere around 1/8 to 1/20 of a second. Step 4: Turn off all ambient light in the room (other than your purposeful constant light). This includes overhead lights, covering windows, and turning off modeling lights. S