Panning technique

13 years 6 months ago #4804 by Lindsey
I was trying out panning today with moving cars. I couldn't figure out how what shutter speed to freeze the wheels on the car but make everything a blur except the car. I kept getting everything clear and not a blurry back ground. What is the best shutter speed to use assuming it's a sunny day?


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13 years 6 months ago #4924 by Maverick V
Are you moving the camera at the same rate as the cars passing? I would start around 1/250 shutter, meter for correct exposure and go for it. Keep adjusting the shutter speed till you get the frozen wheels and blurred back ground you are after. Good luck and let us know how it works out.


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13 years 6 months ago #4951 by Fixedwheelnut
Surely with a moving car the wheels will be blurred as much as the background and the rest of the car will be in focus as you pan with it.

Any shutter speed fast enough to freeze the wheels will freeze the background as well.

You are not thinking of the photoshop effect used in magazines now are you where they photograph a stationary car and blur the back ground.

For a blurred background when panning you usually need a shutter speed 1/250th or slower as Maverick said.


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13 years 6 months ago - 13 years 6 months ago #4954 by Screamin Scott
Sounds like maybe she wants the results that rear curtain sync produces with flash photography

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13 years 5 months ago #5084 by canon4me
Panning is fun......that advice sounds good from Maverick....I might even go a little slower...just keep trying out different settings...you'll get it!


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13 years 5 months ago #5151 by Lindsey
What I want is the body of car frozen, yet the wheels and back ground show motion. :P


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13 years 5 months ago - 13 years 5 months ago #5154 by Fixedwheelnut

Lindsey wrote: What I want is the body of car frozen, yet the wheels and back ground show motion. :P

Like this?

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Exacta Varex 11B 35mm slr 135mm lense at f4 @ 1/60th sec Ilford iso 400 film B&W
taken, developed and printed by me many moons ago at age 15 :) still one of my fave shots, the driver Pete Argentsinger gave me tickets to the 1976 Grand Prix at Brands Hatch for that shot :woohoo:


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13 years 5 months ago #5218 by Thomas S
Hit and run, but I suggest trying out under 1/200 or less on shutter. It takes time, practice and you will get it.


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