Tag: motion

Digital Panning in Zoner Photo Studio X

Panning is an effect photographers use to emphasize movement. The photographer tracks the moving subject and then presses the shutter button at the exact right moment. The main subject remains sharp, while everything around it is blurred. Let’s take a look at how to recreate this effect in photos with a static background.

Capture the City in Motion and Commotion

Metropolises are more than just streets lined with glass and steel skyscrapers—they’re also living organisms full of endless motion and commotion. Almost never-ending streams of cars flow through the streets—the urban arteries—and human figures rush by on the sidewalks. Motion is the city’s essence. And you can express it in your pictures using a fairly simple technique—blurring the picture.

Capturing Motion in Photos

The first successful photograph of motion was taken by photographer and inventor Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, using a technique called chronophotography. This was part of his study called “The Horse in Motion.” In this article we’d like to talk about how to freeze motion, and also how to highlight it by blurring certain parts of a picture.

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