This Looks Hard, But It’s Not

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PICTURES LIKE THIS—with wildly swinging arcs of light, and two flashed images of the same person in the same frame—can often look like they should be wrapped in caution tape. They fairly scream Don’t Try This At Home!

Or on location. Or in the studio. The fear is that it’s like one of those airplane models you got as a kid. There’s a picture of a cool-looking plane on the outside of the box, looking like it’s flying and shooting tracer lines of heavy caliber ammo down at the bad guys. You get excited and dump all the parts out, and boy, are there parts. There are like 712 things that have to be glued together in ...

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