Beginner At Panning

[three-rotor]

I love photos that show movement of cars. I decided that I want to learn how to pan. Got to click off a couple today. These were shot with a 40D and EF-S 17 - 85, hopefully I get to place an order for a EF 70 - 200 2.8 next month. Starting to get my hands on processing pictures, not sure how they look.

I'm pretty happy with how some of them came out, but many of the others were sharp one one half of the car and soft on the other half. Any help on this would be wonderful.

Let me know what you guys think. Any help in what I should do to improve is much appreciated.

Thanks!

http://i40.tinypic.com/2up8pbo.jpg
Shutter Speed: 1/60, Focal Length: 50mm, ISO Speed: 160

http://i43.tinypic.com/2ywbjvk.jpg
Shutter Speed: 1/30. Focal Length: 50mm, ISO Speed: 160

[PhotosGuy]

Starting to get my hands on processing pictures, not sure how they look. They look good in color managed Firefox3.
In both shots, you have a pole or fence in the shot, so keep aware of the backgrounds.
sharp one one half of the car and soft on the other half Usually that's caused by the slow shutter speed & the movement of the shutter across the film plane when the pan isn't as steady as it might be. It helps to try to keep a focus point on the same place on the car.
OTOH, sometimes you get a really neat effect, like maybe once out of 500 shots. :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/PhotosGuy/Samples%20-%20Rides/F1-Blur-06.jpg

This might help:
Panning Question (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=589433)

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[three-rotor]

Thanks for the help. I couldn't do much about my environment today; just stopped by this curve near my house and waited for cars to pass by, haha. I wanted to get some practice in before heading out to a road race event.

So far I feel pretty comfortable at 1/50th - 1/60th of a second. Anything 1/40th or slower, I get 1 good one out of about 7 or 8.

[Gig103]

I think you did a good job! I should start practicing this myself! :)

[xknowonex]

You are off to a good start but the composition is a little off. Try cropping it out so that you give the space in the front slightly a bit more room than the back