attempt at panning - please cc :)

Try to keep your subject in the center focal area of your composition and make it as large as possible. Try to up your shutter speed just enough to correct the excessive blurrrrr. And finally shoot a million snaps to get that perfect one! If you used your 70-200 did you select IS 2? as that function is specifically for panning. Good luck and keep on shooting and sharing.
mike

For what my 2 cents is worth, it looks like you are at a high angle and maybe a bit too far away to get a good pan. I am not exactly how to put it into words properly but the farther away you are from the subject, the less you have to pan to follow their motion. The idea of panning is to freeze the action of the subject and to have the background appear to be zooming by. You can't do this if you are too far from a subject b/c you really don't have that much room to pan and make the background blur.
So I think what may be happening is that you may be slowing the shutter speed to blur the background and in the process blurring the subject.

Hope that is not too confusing.

Matt

I dont know why everyone is telling you to freeze the action--- then it would be a wrothless pan shot. The first picture was almost there, when I shoot at track events I always practice following all the way through.. Have the subject in sight, let your body get in sync with the motion, burst a couple, and keep it in sight a little bit further. Ive found this to produce the best pans, take a look at my site if you want some examples.. People are the same way, but try to get lower shutter speeds (1/10-1/30), general rule is 1/ the speed the subject is traveling, butnot always true... if you use a MONOPOD it will help a lot.. but I doubt you wan to walk around with a monopod attached to your camera..

hope that helps

Thanks for all the comments... I dont' have IS on any lenses boo hoo - I chose the $600 70-200 f4 instead of the $1700 one. I appreciate all the advice but I too thought that a little bit of subject blur was acceptable in a pann shot. Some people are saying to speed the shutter up and others are saying to slow it down... I'm still a bit confused.

You need a lense with IS and switch it to type2

what's type 2?

I have been trying it with cars. I just sit out on my front porch and wait for them to pass when I get bored. I will try people one day.

Good luck!

you can get the background to motion blurr at 1/60...you have to be moving quick though...1/30 is a pretty safe bet as well.

if my advice is wrong please correct me, I've only done it a couple times and that was with my A620

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jev wrote in post #2160430
You need a lense with IS and switch it to type2

Uhmm no you dont.. A lot of motorsport photog's choose not to have IS...

These are all non-IS

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What? How? HUH? COOL!!! Those are inspiring. Would you mind sharing the sutter speed on these? Did you use flash?

Nice idea, but it really is too blurry. Try a tripod with quick release plates if you want to be able to move it quickly.

islandphoto wrote in post #2161343
What? How? HUH? COOL!!! Those are inspiring. Would you mind sharing the sutter speed on these? Did you use flash?

No flash, it was overcast that day.. flash wouldnt work that far anyway

Depending what part of the track your at chages the range of shutter speed..

like I said earlier.. 1/how fast the subject is moving to start off with and work your way from there.. I shoot between 1/60-100 for general panning... 1/125-150 give you that effect on the wheel where it looks layerd between stopped and spinning.. It really just takes practice, and teaching your self to follow through with the pan..

wow...I'm surprised you could get much motion blurr using 1/125

I will have to try it sometime

SumYungGuy;

Those are perfect ! People don't realize that you provide the fastness with your panning and don't want a really fast shutter speed. You catch the person, or object, by panning with them and squeezing the shutter as you pan and that puts the motion in the background.

Could try Al-Servo along with the other poster's suggestions.