Drag Things Out

Lauren Scott shows you how easy it is to recreate an abstract camera panning effect with any image from the comfort of your computer.

- Lauren Scott

Purposely introducing camera movement is one way to capture a shot that stands out from the crowd. You may have tried the cameradrag technique – where you pan your Nikon during a long exposure – before. If you have, you’ll know how artistic the results can be. Depending on the movement and shutter speed, lines in the scene become blurred, and colours merge into one another (see page 80). In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to recreate the effect in Photoshop.