Long-exposure shot of sex

Flickr user Aqui-Ali has posted a long-exposure shot of a couple having sex on a bed, a kind of erotic blur representing a great deal of energetic movement. Link (via Kottke)

[#1 posted by Takuan , January 22, 2008 10:51 PM]

what is this thing you call a "long exposure"? All my photographs look like this all the time. Always I am using the 1000th of a second.

[#2 posted by ron___b , January 22, 2008 11:28 PM]

Scene from Fight Club...

[#3 posted by gabrielm , January 22, 2008 11:48 PM]

That is sure some hot blur-on-blur action!

[#4 posted by Nico , January 23, 2008 2:22 AM]

A well-known Australian photographer, C.C. O'Hanlon, was doing this stuff years ago – Lomo even used some of his blurred sex shots for promotional purposes in 2005. An example can be found at http://hazeldooney.blogspot.com/2007/01/look-at-you.html .

[#5 posted by JG , January 23, 2008 8:24 AM]

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Why pst t? Bcs t s sxl n ntr?
Vry nnsprng.

[#6 posted by gaboury , January 23, 2008 8:36 AM]

Atta Kim did a series of long exposure photography that was displayed in New York in 2006, including an image of a couple having sex on a bed that is quite similar to this one.

Here's the article from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/arts/design/12atta.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

There are several other interesting shots, including one of New York City streets that appear entirely empty as the bustle of cars and pedestrians is lost in the blur, leaving only the buildings and an eerie glow.

[#7 posted by Cpt. Tim , January 23, 2008 9:40 AM]

i can see someone all excited to try this and disappointed by the end result being a slightly out of focus picture of two people laying on top of each other.

[#8 posted by James David , January 23, 2008 11:25 AM]

I like this, and the other artists' works that are similar. Pretty cool to capture an entire experience in one shot - especially something like sex, which is usually documented in other, not so favorable ways.

[#9 posted by Antinous , January 23, 2008 2:22 PM]

It's photograph proof that time is the fourth dimension. Also proof that these people don't move around much when they're going at it.