Help with generating smooth camera motion from stills

In many cases, I find that I will want to take a still image and convert it into a video. Nothing terribly complicated. Most of my shots are landscape and I generally just want to do a very simple push in or some type of dolly move left or right, but it doesn’t seem to matter how I word the prompt. I still get a very shaky handheld camera movement using KLING 3.0. Am I using the wrong model or what? This is truly driving me crazy.

Example prompt:
Slow dolly push forward through a gap in the foliage, revealing a wooden deer blind in the distance. Locked-off tripod camera, static mount, no handheld motion, no camera shake, no jitter. Smooth continuous forward motion at constant speed. Subtle parallax as near foreground leaves pass the frame edges faster than the background trees. Cinematic, natural light, one camera move only.

In the sample video below, it looks like the camera is being dragged across a pile of rocks as opposed to a nice smooth camera motion. This is really driving me nuts that I can’t get this to smooth out. You think that would be an easy point for AI to understand.

Sample video produced from still

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@Houston I am not very experienced or technical with filmmaking, but have you tried Veo instead? I found the shots are amazing. Let me know what you think. Also, for what it’s worth, I have built a tool that uses Veo and automates a lot of the technical steps involved in AI generation. I offer a free trial with a small bit of generation credits (though at this exact moment it’s not working but will hopefully be fixed by tomorrow). It’s called Hapeel Movies. Would love to hear what you think.