Much akin to the Magician’s Brick!
Check out The Physics of Superheroes. It's a fun read.
One small bit of related advice: if you're using both a lens with stabilization and a tripod, make sure to turn stabilization off while it's mounted on the tripod.
It's somewhat counter-intuitive, I know, but I've found that if it's left on, the lens tries to compensate, and the resulting images are a bit blurry / shaky.