So today I tried panning for the first time with highly suboptimal results.
Would love to see your panning shots and any advice for what you've found to be helpful!
Advice is lots of practice... and play around with settings to see what works for you. Everyone tends to have a different shutter speed at which they pan best. Mine is usually 1/125th.
I have TONS of panning shots on my photography page, but not too many uploaded here... I photograph racing, so I obviously pan a lot, haha.
@swguevin@hmgphotos These are great! It seems like there's an optimal interplay between how fast you pan, shutter speed, and the relative speed of your subject ...
Nice and steady is the key. Focus on one thing, pan following that and hope for the best. Tripod would make it more steady obviously. A little blur is good as it gives a feeling of movement anyway. A slower shutter speed is another key. This one was a sixth of a second.
This was my first attempt at panning and it does take practice. I think the key is a slower shutter speed and following the moving subject as it moves past you. I would recommend using high speed continuous mode and shooting several shots at one time, just like @miew said above!
Dogs are horrible to pan because they don't move that regularly, so following them to get a shot is harder - I've done better with bikes - and wound up all the cyclists on the High Street trying
@bardejov Sometimes I do continuous autofocus, but not always. I have a fast shutter finger, haha. I usually use "continuous low" frame rate, unless it is something super fast (think 150mph car), then I'll go to my max frame rate. Shutter priority, set to usually 1/125, but that can vary on lighting conditions and what I am shooting. Sometimes I just leave it in aperture priority. Mostly it's how I feel that day, really.
@hmgphotos This is helpful - thanks! Shutter priority felt comfortable for my first shot at panning, and I'll probably stick with it. Practice seems to be the key, and maybe a different subject to start.
Thanks to everyone who shared their images, advice, and instruction. I have a ton of practicing to do ... this was my follow up shot from yesterday:
I think I need to be in front of the motion and maybe pan a bit slower ... Of course, it depends on how tired he is ...
Thanks again!
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I have TONS of panning shots on my photography page, but not too many uploaded here... I photograph racing, so I obviously pan a lot, haha.
If you camera does burst mode, take 4-5 shots and hopefully 1 is fairly sharp.
This one below was 1/200, normally would be too fast for panning, but this was with a 200mm lens.
I think I need to be in front of the motion and maybe pan a bit slower ... Of course, it depends on how tired he is ...
Thanks again!