ActionShot

There are many methods for capturing panoramic images, some being fully manual or semi-automatic, and others completely automatic.

The moving object is illuminated by the periodic light flashes generated by the stroboscope and is shot by a stills camera using a long exposure.

ActionShot photography is now available as part of camera application on Samsung Android Galaxy Premium Devices (Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy S2) or by downloading the Nokia Smartcam app on the Microsoft Lumia Phones To create a dynamic panoramic image manually, a photographer needs to take several shots or still frames from a high-resolution video of a moving object and then combine them together using manual image registration, followed by manual image stitching.

[1] Early digital image processing methods created a "synopsis mosaic" by building a panoramic image a video sequence where higher weights were assigned to the moving objects.

[3] This in order to create eye-catching synopsis still images, and even videos, the moving objects are required not to overlap in the composed result.

Synthetic photograph with several appearances of a guy riding a bicycle on a bicycle ground
ActionShot photograph of a bicycle rider.
Synthetic photograph with several appearances of snowboarder gliding over a snow-covered valley
ActionShot photograph of a snowboarder.