No tripod, still want long exposure photos of people?

It's sure we've all seen long exposure photos taken of people that are not blurry in the photos, but everything else is. It looks artistic and professional. In fact, it's not that difficult to reach the desired results if you have a camera with manual settings.

Firstly, make sure you can set the shutter speed manually. If yes, set it either to 1/5 second or 1 second. The aperture value can remain large, f/1.8-f/2.8 in order to separate your subject from the background. Switch on your pop-up flash (if you don't own a flashgun) and there we go, take the photo.

I used exactly the same method to produce the following photos: