andybarton Posted August 18, 2007 Share #1 Posted August 18, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) R8/dmr/90 [attach]50249[/attach] [attach]50250[/attach] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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azzo Posted August 19, 2007 Share #2 Posted August 19, 2007 Andy, Nicely panned and captured... both. Azzo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted August 19, 2007 Share #3 Posted August 19, 2007 Andy - You've really gotten down the technique. Excellent light, color, moment, vantagepoint, pan and framing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted August 19, 2007 Share #4 Posted August 19, 2007 Good amount of motion blur in the pan, yet the cars are acceptably sharp Shame about the back of the car in #1 :D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carylwithay Posted August 25, 2007 Share #5 Posted August 25, 2007 Is the blurring from the camera or photoshop? I am not familiar with what panning does. Caryl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted August 25, 2007 Share #6 Posted August 25, 2007 Caryl, It's a technique which aims to suggest motion; it is fairly easy to shoot a car, racehorse, etc side on with a fast (say 1/1000th sec) shutter speed, but you just get a sharp, frozen image. By using a longer shutter speed, 1/125th seconds is probably as slow as an expert would try, you can get the main subject sharp whilst the background/foreground becomes a blur. The trick is to swing the camera with the subject and release the shutter at just the right moment- if there is any delay between pressing the button and the shutter opening.... you have missed it (unless you really know your camera). Andy's done a good job here, but a photo-ed would eliminate the first one because the back of the car is outside the frame; this shot could be salvaged by cropping closer, cutting out the front and back of the car along with some of the top and bottom. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carylwithay Posted August 25, 2007 Share #7 Posted August 25, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thank you , Pete, for that explanation. I have tried to pan with birds so that i can get them but the sky does not show blur very much so I do not know if I got blur or not. I understand that panning to the left or right gives different effects. Must try that. Caryl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted August 25, 2007 Share #8 Posted August 25, 2007 Caryl, I know what you are saying about panning against the sky! I used to do some work for an aviation mag; at least with an aircraft the wings don't flap (well, not often). When shooting birds I would just go for a higher speed, it's difficult enough just to keep them in frame and focus. Practice is the key; with digi one can blast off thousands of shots and analyse the results vs. the camera settings at your leisure; with film one has to write down the camera settings used. Personally I don't believe any film users who say "1/250th @ f16", either they have very sad lives ..... or are Leica M users who, by definition, will be tweedy old geezers wearing berets and carrying a little notebook in their 1950's canvas bag. Attention M8 users: no offence; you are half-way there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carylwithay Posted August 25, 2007 Share #9 Posted August 25, 2007 Pete, I did find this thread finally. Just wanted you to know I us an M8 and I am as old as any of those tweedy geezers but I did buy a new canvas bag when the one from the 50s fell apart LOL Caryl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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