Panning shot

[abhaypatny]

Please C&C as its my first try on panning

[RichardTaylor]

Looks like you used a slow enough shutter speed, however your tracking has not matched the vehicles speed, when the shutter was fired. I feel you want at least part (if not the whole vehicle, excluding the wheels) of the vehicle to be sharp and just the background blurred.

You may find this panning tute, on this site, of assistance.
Panning: Motor sport

[abhaypatny]

Thanks Richard for feedback. and a helpful tutorial

I used 1/30 sec for this shot

[Michael_nine22.com]

A good rule of thumb i use for panning is 1/mph so if a car was going 50 mph, 1/50 would be good, if its going 100 (like race cars) you can get away with 1/100.

If something is going very slow, say a bicycle rider I often use rear curtain flash to freeze the subject. Getting down in the sub 1/20th range is gets hard to track your subject smoothly.

I also shoot with rapid fire/burst/continuous mode, often times only 1 out of 8 will be tact sharp so bring a big memory card.