Been working on motion blur

sanford tullis

I have been trying to show more motion in my sports pics. These are a few from a mx track the other night. C and C apprieciated.







Thanks for looking

SloYerRoll

Good shots. You nailed #1

Tommyboy

Your practice shows. This is a deceptively difficult technique. Photo #2 has a lot of WOW factor. Nice job.

beetle8

#2 is great, panning is huge fun, very hard, and the great shots are always really great and generally better than stop action.
I have a problem with accelerateing my pan just befor I click, probably because I get all excited and cant wait to look at the result.
Composition is another hard aspect of this type of shot, i ussually fix it with a crop but am still working on trying to get it right in camera.

2whlrcr

#1 I would crop tighter.

#3 just isn't a keeper. Nothing is sharp.

I would like to see #2 in portrait. I think it would look more dynamic..

nipprdog

2whlrcr wrote:

#1 I would crop tighter.

#3 just isn't a keeper. Nothing is sharp.

I would like to see #2 in portrait. I think it would look more dynamic..

Agreed.

Sanford. You have your phrases confused. "motion blur". Bad thing.

"panning". When done correctly, good thing.

Zee

Practice, practice, practice, toss pictures in Recycle Bin, and practice some more . Panning looks easy when done correctly but it's actually quite hard to learn.

I would suggest using Shutter Priority, 1/320 (depending upon available light of course), and decreasing your shutter speed gradually as your panning technique improves. Learning how to pan using 1/15 is nerve racking at best.

I can usually get a nice blur of the wheels when speeds approach 100+ with 1/320 but that's still a bit fast to get that nice background blur.