Flash-Blur
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Flash-Blur

U/W Photo Course

Learn u/w photography the easy way!

Flash/blur technique is used extensively in stylish fashion photography and can be easily adopted for underwater photography to create some interesting effects.

Gaping Moray Eel taken in St Johns, Southern Egyptian Red Sea, Nov 2006.
you can also get the flash/blur effect in PhotoShop!
© Len Deeley
Flash/blur underwater photography involves deliberately freezing the motion of a moving subject with flash, but also making a long exposure, thus allowing natural light to register and give a characteristic blurred edge.

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