* Project Six: The big project Drive-by shooting

We’re all used to seeing portraits with lovely background bokeh, but what about a different kind of blur? Motion blur can give your portraits a dynamic sense of speed and blur the surroundings into gorgeous silky streaks.

In this project we’ll look at how it’s done. First we’ll explain how to shoot subjects in moving cars to capture both stunning blurred trails of light and a sharp subject in a single frame, then we’ll explore a few other methods for shooting beautiful motion blurred backgrounds.

This can be something of a balancing act in terms of our camera settings. We need to slow our shutter speed down to a length that will allow for the moving parts of the scene to become blurred, while at the