How to slow shutter speed

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How can I blur motion on my phone?

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Amber Lee

Santeria

Slow Shutter Speeds

What is it and why should I care?

Slow shutter speed or Long Exposure can be brilliant if you want to blur motion.
You know those cool light trail shots with as in light trails from cars, fireworks, or blurred running water. On cameras this is done by leaving the shutter open and allowing light to play on the subject over time. In cellphones it uses AI to "cheat" and takes a bunch of shots and blurs them together.

The effect is a photo that feels more like a memory as opposed to a straight photo.

How do I do it?

Select Live mode on Apple phones and then select the slow shutter speed options.

For some of the newer androids they have slow shutter options.

For older Androids I have bought the App Motion Pro cam and it works brilliantly.

Apple

On Apple we use the Live button to create long exposures.

Usually if you are on the live image you can either swipe up or touch the drop down menu in the upper left hand corner of older iphones. This will give you access to the 4 options of Live, Loop, Bounce, and Long Exposure. Loop and bounce are fun for making Gifs and video clips but Long exposure can be used to erase people from backgrounds and for creating a motion blur effect which can be quite cool.