I next turned the "lens" towards other players. Long exposure shots revealed that despite the open and spacious nature of WOW cities, players remained in very small areas of interest and traveled on very tight channels. Players wasted nary a step as they beeline between the auction houses, mailboxes and banks ("Time is money, friend!"). I wonder how many players would be able to draw a map of every mailbox and reagent vendor but would have difficulty describing the intervening architecture!
My final long exposure exercise involved doing a shot of myself leveling a mage from level 1 to level 2. I had no idea what to expect, and I was surprised when the shot revealed my apparent habit of "lining up" the enemies I was about to attack in the upper-right quadrant of my screen. I had never noticed this habit before, despite many hundreds of hours of play. It appeared that I was transferring my own right-handedness to my character! I suspect that I am not the only one who does this, and I am interested to know if others in the community find themselves playing "handedly."
I think that long exposure photography (or at least, a technique designed to simulate it) has the potential to reveal some interesting things about WOW. I am excited to see what the members of the WoW.com community can do with these tools. Farewell and happy shooting! Thanking you for players supporting our website, we have been providing the cheapest WOW gold. Comparing with other websites, our WOW gold is cheap enough, fast, and safe. We have very available stock of WOW gold on most of the servers and we can deliver your WOW gold on the order in a short while.
I started out with some "artistic" shots, of course. A rogue's Fan of Knives became an enormous pinwheel, a paladin's Consecration transformed into a supernova, and a quick bout against a training dummy could only be described as a small-scale nuclear explosion. The training dummy shot made me realize how many visual cues the player is bombarded with every second and how quickly the player must process this information.
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