Fast Cars

SnapHappy

These were taken at the Goodwood festival of speed this year using the fuji s7000. Its the first time I've tried to capture these kind of shots by panning with the car to get some blurring in the background and keeping as much as the car in focus.

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JamesJWeg

Goodwood, dang, I'm a little jealous, must be nice. Nice panning there, I find that I have a lot of no go's when panning, it's to easy to get to much camera shake.

James.

SnapHappy

JamesJWeg wrote:

Goodwood, dang, I'm a little jealous, must be nice. Nice panning there, I find that I have a lot of no go's when panning, it's to easy to get to much camera shake.

James.

Yep, Goodwood, it was a really good event this year. I would recommend it to anyone.
These were the best results from about 25 attempts!!! Many of them deleted straight away. I found it easier to shoot in continuous mode too.

Nir

SnapHapy they look great!

Can you give us exposure details? Are you shooting in shutter speed priority? What speed?

Anyone know of of a good online tutorial for panning?

SnapHappy

Nir wrote:

SnapHapy they look great!

Can you give us exposure details? Are you shooting in shutter speed priority? What speed?

Anyone know of of a good online tutorial for panning?

Thank you.

I shot in shutter priority at 1/80 f5.6.

I read some brief instructions from a magazine on this, basically it works better if you position parallel to the car as in pic 1 & 3. I pre-focused on the area and waited for the cars to come along. these were the next best from the attempts, not Quite so sharp: