A Guide to Pleasing Blurs by Arthur Morris and Denise Ippolito

A Guide to Pleasing Blurs by Arthur Morris and Denise Ippolito covers the basics of creating pleasingly blurred images, the factors that influence the degree of blurring, the use of filters in creating pleasing blurs, and a great variety of both in-the-field and Photoshop techniques that can be used to create pleasingly blurred images.

Artie and Denise will teach you many different ways to move your lens during the exposure to create a variety of pleasingly blurred images of flowers and trees and water and landscapes. They will teach you to recognize situations where subject movement can be used to your advantage to create pan blurs, wind blurs, and moving water blurs. They will teach you to create zoom-blurs both in the field and during post-processing. Artie shares the techniques that he has used and developed for making blurred images of flocks of geese in flight at his beloved Bosque del Apache, and Denise shares her flower blur magic as well as a variety of creative Photoshop techniques that she has developed.

With the advent of digital capture creating blurred images has become a great and inexpensive way to go out with your camera and have fun. And while many folks think that making successful blurred images is the result of being a sloppy photographer nothing could be further from the truth. In A Guide to Pleasing Blurs Artie and Denise will help you to unleash your creative self.

The book is laid out in landscape format to make for easy viewing and easy reading on your computer monitor.

A Guide to Pleasing Blurs is a 271 page PDF is illustrated with 144 different, exciting, and artistic images.

Arthur Morris is a freelance nature photographer and writer specializing in birds. With more than 20,000 of his stunning images published all over the globe, Arthur is recognized as one of the world s premier bird photographers. He is a Canon Explorer of Light and a Fellow of the North American Nature Photographers Association.