Immersive Photography - Example #5
There are several photography tricks that you can employ to accentuate motion in a captured still image. The shot below was created using two techniques simultaneously. On one of the Cub Scout camping hikes, I took a lot of forest shots. Because it was getting dark, I set the DSLR to a relatively slow exposure. At the end of the hike, the cub master, John, saw the campsite up ahead and told the kids to run the final distance. I was ahead of John, so I turned around and started to snap images in sequence. To give me more time, I decided to jog backwards in tandem with the subjects. This helped, but they were still gaining. So, I gradually changed the focal length to keep them in frame even as the shots continued. By syncing my motion with the subjects, they came out fairly clear while the scene appears warped in the direction of the motion. Additionally, by changing the focal length WHILE taking the slow exposures, even more motion is apparent in the shot.
