Posted: 4/10/2008 6:27:58 AM EDT
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I was using the 18-55mm lens with the aperture set on 5.6 and shutter release on full auto..which technically isn't panning I guess but fun and I really like a couple of the pics. What "created" the opportunity..my friends Griffen. I lightened this pic up a bit as they were all under exposed.  The rest I didn't. It was getting dark really fast as the rain moved in and I like the way the pics look.     ETA..not great but not bad for my first attempt. |
You need to slow your shutter down so that the background is blured with the swing of the lens and the subject is sharp. I'm not that great at it yet either. Here is one of my best panning shots.  |
Thanks for the tip. It was a last minute.."damn I should try panning" attempt so I didn't get a chance to change anything. I normally shoot in aperture priority which didn't help. Your pic looks great.
Ahh..the stone age is over... 
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Go buy a digital camera! It'll pay for itself in short order (assuming you actually still take pics). Hell, my first digital camera paid for itself inside of 1000 shots! Shooting roll after roll with a Canon AE-1 was expensive. Unfortunately I was taking my dig. everywhere and I lost it a couple years after buying it. Eventually I moved on to a D200 and have shot 20,000 pics with it. If 5% were keepers, I would have saved about $500 in processing fees and film. Too bad that doesn't come anywhere close to paying for all the equipment that seems to never stop arriving from Adorama and B&H! Here is one of the first panning shots I felt was successful from visualization to execution: 
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a good way to get great panning shots is to use a flash just like you'd use a fill flash. the momentary flash freezes the action and gives you more room for error on the tracking of the subject (this is what Torf did in his bike shot above. His shutter speed was only 1/60 sec, which would normally be far too slow to freeze the action) |