Car racing

[rajjayaraj]

Went to Croft yesterday to practise my panning skills. WDYT?

Croft April 2015 by Raj Jayaraj Photography, on Flickr

Raj

[Tigger]

Re: Car racing

not that I know anything about panning- but it looks pretty spot on here

[Cyberman]

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Looks good to me, you got the background blurred and the car in focus.

[Stan]

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Looks good Raj but tell us what settings you used

Stan

[Tigger]

Re: Car racing

Looks good Raj but tell us what settings you used

Stan

F11 1/125th ....its on flickr, you not had your morning coffee yet

[rajjayaraj]

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Thanks, what is important in Panning? The background blur, or the sharpness of picture? If so how sharp? My second part of question is, is it how smooth you swing that makes the picture good and sharp or your slow shutter to the subject movement. Sorry in other word, can you get good picture with lower shutter speed if you swing your camera smoothly?

[Stan]

Re: Car racing

its on flickr, you not had your morning coffee yet

cant be bothered to open up flickr each time - I always include the exif with the post

Thanks, what is important in Panning? The background blur, or the sharpness of picture? If so how sharp? My second part of question is, is it how smooth you swing that makes the picture good and sharp or your slow shutter to the subject movement. Sorry in other word, can you get good picture with lower shutter speed if you swing your camera smoothly?

a combination of all the above - a slow shutter speed to get some wheel blur and background blur to give the impression of speed and a smooth panning technique to keep your subject in focus and sharp. I thin you succeeded on all counts with this one

Stan

[John27]

Re: Car racing

Well captured, the image is as it should be for panning, sharp subject blurred background and space in the front to drive into.

John

[rajjayaraj]

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cant be bothered to open up flickr each time - I always include the exif with the post



a combination of all the above - a slow shutter speed to get some wheel blur and background blur to give the impression of speed and a smooth panning technique to keep your subject in focus and sharp. I thin you succeeded on all counts with this one

Stan

Is there a way of working out which shutter speed is right, i was trialling a lot with each car travelling at different speed. Or do you think i can achieve with some slow shutter speed and get the same results provided my swing is smooth?

[tesarver]

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Well done on the panning Raj

Tom

[rajjayaraj]

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Thanks Tom

[paul linton]

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Panning looks good,better than i can do!

If and when i do pan i set camera in Tv mode and shoot at 1/200th and try to go as low as 1/125 if i can but its all hit and miss, For bike you can get away with 1/400th and still get a good feel of motion so you don't always have to go to mad.

Paul

[Stan]

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Second what Paul has said. A couple of years back at Goodwood Festival of Speed I had to shoot some of the very old cars at 1/60 to get the blurred backgrounds as they were going so slow

Stan

[rajjayaraj]

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Thanks Paul and Stan, so it is the speed of the subject that determines the shutter speed and blur irrespective of you smooth panning action. I thought that was the case and hence shooting all the fast car travelling at hight speed on straight line at 1/320 but not sure if i could get better by going further down to 1/125 and only to find out they were not sharp and thought might be i am not panning smoothly.