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Motion Blur Portrait

Photography · Motion Blur · Portrait

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Motion Blur Portrait, A face caught mid movement, sharp in one place and gone everywhere else — Head trailing across frame

Motion Blur Portrait, A face caught mid movement, sharp in one place and gone everywhere else — Square crop

Motion Blur Portrait, A face caught mid movement, sharp in one place and gone everywhere else — Vertical portrait

Motion Blur Portrait, A face caught mid movement, sharp in one place and gone everywhere else — Wide crop

Motion Blur Portrait, A face caught mid movement, sharp in one place and gone everywhere else — Detail of the freeze

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

GPT Image

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Updated 9 Aug 2026

Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.

Make it yours

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.

Prompt

A portrait shot at a slow shutter with a burst of flash: the sitter turning their head fast, so one eye and the edge of a headband freeze sharply while the rest of the face trails across the frame in a soft ghost. Dark background swallowing the trail, cool tones with one warm highlight, visible grain. The movement is the subject, not a flaw.

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Recommended settings

Size: 1024 x 1024
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Name what stays sharp. One small frozen area is what makes it read as deliberate.
2Slow shutter plus flash, not a motion blur filter.
3A dark background lets the trail dissolve rather than smear over detail.

Things to try

5 variations

Dancer

a full body turn with a long trail

Hands

a gesture caught mid movement

Double exposure

two positions of the same head overlapping

Colour trail

coloured gels making the trail shift hue

Daylight

the same effect outdoors with a bright background

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