Notreknip
24th of August 2007 (Fri), 00:50
I have always wanted to try this out, and I finally convinced myself the other night to go for a quick "trial-run".
...I must say shooting from a minivan made this very easy. (Finding a quiet smooth road was likely the hardest part.)
Overall, I'm not happy with the results however. The background sucks in the sense that it is ugly/boring, but also in the sense that it's too distant and thus too static. That aside, overall these results are way too static for my liking.
We followed the rule-of-thumb rule of (shutter speed)=1/(car speed) but being Canadian I didn't even THINK about the mph to km/h conversion. Doh! We were going about 60km/h which is something around 35mph I'd think. As a result my 1/60 shutter was clearly too fast. :(
Unfortunately it got too dark before I chimped enough to realize the error. (I was already at ISO 400 and I wanted to close the aperature a touch more.)
Anyway, I realize they're decent at best, but I thought I'd share because these threads always seem to attract attention.
C&C all you want!!
(PS - This is my buddy's Jetta. I'll have to train him to shoot me in my E46 BMW next time.)
http://Notreknip.smugmug.com/photos/184783920-L.jpg
http://Notreknip.smugmug.com/photos/184783142-L.jpg
...I must say shooting from a minivan made this very easy. (Finding a quiet smooth road was likely the hardest part.)
Overall, I'm not happy with the results however. The background sucks in the sense that it is ugly/boring, but also in the sense that it's too distant and thus too static. That aside, overall these results are way too static for my liking.
We followed the rule-of-thumb rule of (shutter speed)=1/(car speed) but being Canadian I didn't even THINK about the mph to km/h conversion. Doh! We were going about 60km/h which is something around 35mph I'd think. As a result my 1/60 shutter was clearly too fast. :(
Unfortunately it got too dark before I chimped enough to realize the error. (I was already at ISO 400 and I wanted to close the aperature a touch more.)
Anyway, I realize they're decent at best, but I thought I'd share because these threads always seem to attract attention.
C&C all you want!!
(PS - This is my buddy's Jetta. I'll have to train him to shoot me in my E46 BMW next time.)
http://Notreknip.smugmug.com/photos/184783920-L.jpg
http://Notreknip.smugmug.com/photos/184783142-L.jpg