If you pointed a camera directly into the path of a light beam and captured slow-motion film of the light, you would not actually see the light traveling towards the camera. This is because light travels at an extremely high speed, specifically about 299,792 kilometers per second (or approximately 186,282 miles per second) in a vacuum.
When you capture slow-motion footage, you are essentially capturing a series of still images or frames at a high frame rate and then playing them back at a slower speed. If you were able to capture light in slow motion, you would see a series of frames showing the light at different positions as it moves through space, but the actual process of light traveling from its source to the camera would not be visible.
Light carries information through electromagnetic waves. These waves oscillate rapidly, and each oscillation represents a different point in space and time. When light interacts with objects, it reflects, refracts, or gets absorbed, and these interactions can be captured by a camera or detected by our eyes.
However, capturing light in slow motion, frame by frame, is not currently possible with conventional cameras. The speed of light is so incredibly fast that capturing it in such detail would require an extremely high-speed camera capable of capturing billions or trillions of frames per second. Presently, the fastest cameras can capture up to several million frames per second, which is still far too slow to directly visualize the motion of light waves.