Panning shots help....

[TME]

Tried some panning shots at my school's sports day.... frankly quite a disaster.... just two of the less bad shots...

Shot both at f/13, 1/30 sec.... probably the shutter was too slow and the runners too fast.... any suggestions for improvement? Looks like off focus as well?

http://www.pbase.com/image/28823482

http://www.pbase.com/image/28823518

Thanks!

Sorry for the poor quality..... scanned from glossy prints with a normal scanner, RGB 300dpi. Konica Centuria 200 film. Colour not bad.... can rival that of Fujifilm and perhaps more natural...

 

[sulhan]

Hi TME,

i think you Probably used a too slow shutter to start off.....i think for running i would recommend say 1/60 for a start. Positioning also influences the impact of your pan. For the first shot ....i would say th shutter may be a little slow and hence you cant pan fast enough to create the horizontal pan effectively.

Proper Horizontal panning will help reduce vertical shakes ....vector theory..(wah chimalogy!!!....hahaha).

The second image.....pannin a forward target approaching you would better be off by lens zoom effect .....

Best Panning so far that i have personally done is when subject is passing in front and you shot is NORMAL to the subject movement path......

rgds,
sulhan

 

[YuHsuan]

Brother, was good to meet you that day. Looking at your shots, I think your shutter speed is too slow. Some of the blur looks like it is from camera shake.

Try using a high speed film (ISO4000 and above), the slow shutter speed will give you a small aperture which will give you max depth of field.

When you are panning from left to right, make sure you follow your camera through even though you may have already squeezed the shutter.

School cross country can try again!

regards

Tried some panning shots at my school's sports day.... frankly quite a disaster.... just two of the less bad shots...

Shot both at f/13, 1/30 sec.... probably the shutter was too slow and the runners too fast.... any suggestions for improvement? Looks like off focus as well?

http://www.pbase.com/image/28823482

http://www.pbase.com/image/28823518

Thanks!

Sorry for the poor quality..... scanned from glossy prints with a normal scanner, RGB 300dpi. Konica Centuria 200 film. Colour not bad.... can rival that of Fujifilm and perhaps more natural...

 

[Mystix]

For panning, i suggest u preset your focus at the position where u will be firing off. for me i manually focus first. hope this helps

 

[deslim27]

Hi TME,

Your position for 2nd shot is difficult to do panning, 1st shot is ok..

Set to Continuous Focus, select wide area AF, so that you don't have to position the subject right on a single AF point. Follow the subject thru out, from left to right (for example) like you're holding a telescope. While following thru, press the shutter gently. 1/30 should be ok, but 1/60 is safer depending on your focal length used.

Practise the 'follow thru' a few time before shooting lor, its not easy to maintain same speed as the subject when the viewfinder is blackout.

Just my 0.02

 

[TME]

Brother, was good to meet you that day. Looking at your shots, I think your shutter speed is too slow. Some of the blur looks like it is from camera shake.

Try using a high speed film (ISO4000 and above), the slow shutter speed will give you a small aperture which will give you max depth of field.

When you are panning from left to right, make sure you follow your camera through even though you may have already squeezed the shutter.

School cross country can try again!

regards

Yo bro!! Thanks for the advice... was using 100mm.. the aperture already quite small at f/13.... I think it's the shutter speed... u're right, there's definitely camera shake cos 1/30 is the slowest that I can hand hold with acceptable sharpness...

Will try again.... school x-country next year leh.... maybe during 30th Anniversary Carnival lor...

To all the others, thanks as well.... good advice. Will try wide area focus.... but I stuck with local area focus cos the AI usually gets it wrong on my 505si.... never really tested with Dynax 7 but it still seems to lag....

The prefocus part sounds good but u need a focus reference and in the case of the running track there wasn't anything remotely at the same distance for me to prefocus on to lock the focus...

Sulhan, how do u do lens zoom effect? Trigger the shutter and zoom in? What about camera shake? Zooming at 1/60 won't get u very far right, especially with a relatively stiff zoom ring on my hardly used 100-400 APO??