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Hey thanks!

Any tips for getting the whole car in focus? A lot of my shots have the front or back of the car decently sharp but the rest is blurred. This is why the picture of the yellow focus are cropping off the back of the car. Sometimes this makes a cool effect but it's a bit haphazard. Is it just inconsistencies in my panning technique? I found that with the car changing direction or my perspective of it changing makes it worse, but some photos it doesn't appear in. Like the evoX photo it didn't really happen even though my perspective was changing from the side of the car to the rear of the car as it got further away from me.

Kind of long winded... just wondering if there is a more sure fire way to control this rather than the "spray and pray" method... I'm using a 5d mk2 so the shutter isn't the fastest for such events and want to maximize my shots. Here is a couple shots of what i'm talking about

Some exif data would help quite a bit.

Part of it is due to the way the shutter works. Part is due to other factors. Look at post #5 here: First shoot with moving cars need advice. I used the same shutter speed for both.

What you have to remember is that the front of the car is moving at a different speed to the rear of the car in relation to the camera.

One from yesterday, didn't have a great day panning tbh.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/FMxt​dL

Zefy wrote in post #17958960
Any tips for getting the whole car in focus? A lot of my shots have the front or back of the car decently sharp but the rest is blurred.

Also Mozes, really liking these through the trees shots! Is it hard to maintain focus with the trees whipping by?

Start by picking a shutter speed that you feel that you can comfortably handle - (start high and work down). Adjust the ISO until you can use a fairly high aperture, f/16 or so, in order to have enough depth of field to cover the whole car. As per John Crossley "motion parallax" also comes into play as portions of the car are moving at different speeds relative to the camera plane.

The easiest way to shoot through trees and other objects is to manually pre-focus on a spot on the track, then pan and shoot when the target gets there.

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Hello, some weak and sloppy pictures in here

one of mines:

Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA

jeffcranwell wrote in post #17962443

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/FSkb​B3 IMG_2852 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr

Nice one mate.