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Photo looks, lighting & styles · #12
Panning shot
Follow a moving subject so only the background streaks. The camera follows the moving car: the car stays sharp in the middle of the frame while only the buildings, trees and lamps behind it streak sideways.
Lens & camera effectspanningpanning shotmotion blurspeedsports photographyslow shutter
Full motion specification
How the movement works
To show the speed of a car, bike or runner in a still photo.
- 01Street corner: buildings, trees and lamps behind a road at y 132–162 (no large person in front)
- 02Car: without the effect it drives from x −80 to 620 in 5 s; with it, it stays at x 270 ±10 px
- 03Streak: the background is drawn 12 times spread over 46 px sideways and averaged (spread 0 → 46 px)
- 04Wheels: a spoke line turns 12 times per 5 s
- 05Top-right shutter speed 1/1000 → 1/15
- 06Timing: the effect comes in from 0.4 s to 1.4 s, holds until 4.0 s and is gone again by 4.8 s (one pass = 5 s, cubic ease-in-out (about cubic-bezier(0.65,0,0.35,1)))
Prompt
Panning shot of a red car driving past, 1/15 s shutter: the car sharp, the trees and buildings behind streaked sideways.