Faces in the Forest

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DUNNO, BUT RUNNING INTO these guys in the woods might constitute a bad day. Actually, that’s kind of the feel I was trying to generate here, kind of a running-through-the-forest-whoosh! type of feeling, and then boom!—you end with an arresting, eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation. Of course, I wasn’t running with the camera through the forest. I didn’t move my feet. Nor did my subjects.

But the lens moved. Zooming or moving the lens while exposing is a time-honored technique. It’s been around, frankly, as long as there have been zoom lenses. It requires a subdued quality of light (usually), something you can work ...

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