Jesse Gabriel Photography Blog
Embrace The Blur^
We all work hard to get pictures that are sharp and have perfect focus. Maybe we’re missing the forest for the trees. Think about mood, color, ideas—in other words, not your gear.

There are lots of ways to make great fuzzy pictures. It’s a lot easier to accomplish with a camera that has manual settings so that you can slow the shutter speed down. And use manual focus—but it’s not imperative. There are so many options for blur.

Option one is jerking the camera. If you’re shooting something that is mostly vertical, jerk the camera up and down. You know how you throw a Frisbee? How it’s all in the wrist? Same thing, but you do it either vertically or horizontally. The image of the trees below is a vertical jerk.

Embrace The Blur^
We all work hard to get pictures that are sharp and have perfect focus. Maybe we’re missing the forest for the trees. Think about mood, color, ideas—in other words, not your gear.

There are lots of ways to make great fuzzy pictures. It’s a lot easier to accomplish with a camera that has manual settings so that you can slow the shutter speed down. And use manual focus—but it’s not imperative. There are so many options for blur.

Option one is jerking the camera. If you’re shooting something that is mostly vertical, jerk the camera up and down. You know how you throw a Frisbee? How it’s all in the wrist? Same thing, but you do it either vertically or horizontally. The image of the trees below is a vertical jerk.