Panning

[Sarah]

Took these this weekend

C&C and ways to improve them

 

[Tigger]

No Clio's = FAIL lol

Not bad Sarah

 

[BIFCAIDS]

just bit more focus tbh

 

[Omid]

just bit more focus tbh

What has caused the lack of focus? Is it just needing a constant focus?

 

[Sarah]

not shaking and keeping the car in the exact same point on camera at a guess?

 

[BIFCAIDS]

i think its just a case of she's not quite had it right at the point of taking the photo

 

[Reyes]

What F stop are you using?

 

[Ian]

Try it with a faster shutter speed Sarah, these look to be sub 1/100th (the traffic cones are mega blurred) which isn't that easy. Somewhere around 1/160th - 250th should get you more keepers.

Make sure you're using continuous focus as well, in fact I think there's a guide stickied at the top of this section.

Oh and hosting them on Facebook really won't be helping!

 

[Alex H]

Read Chris' guide firstly, then go for shutter priority and start off stupidly fast, like 1/400. Nail it, then drop one, nail that then drop another...etc. I can hit about 20% now at 1/100. Roughly 1% at 1/60.

 

[Leeshez]

Your getting good at it.

 

[Sarah]

thanks for the advice

i think i had the shuttered speed 1/25 which sounds like my problem

 

[The Boosh!]

thanks for the advice

i think i had the shuttered speed 1/25 which sounds like my problem

I took this at 1/60 but tbh it needed to be at about 1/100. Just takes a lot of practice, I am still learning. I think the main thing is to keep the camera moving, even when the picture has been taken. I keep autofocus on and set the camera to take reccuring pictures, then just attempt to pan and end up with about 3 pictures. one of them is normally decent.

Another useful tool I use is this Exif viewer. If i see a picture I like the look out you can bang the URL in there and it will tell you the shutter speed and all the settings etc.

IE http://regex.info/exif.cgi?url=http...ages/car-photos/1-ate-2-meets-zs/dsc_0017.jpg

 

[jimbo666]

clean your sensor/lens too, tres mucky!