SHOW US YOUR BEST PANNING SHOT

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2014 Kartweek at Daytona International Speedway

Looks fast!

Can reach about 150 mph.

SCCBC club racing at Mission Raceway Park

One very quick turbo Miata. SCCBC club racing at Mission Raceway Park

not enough drift photos here

From the Rolex 24 Saturday night. Cranked up the ISO and panned, panned and panned some more. I think I did ok considering my panning practice has been at this race two years in a row and never at night.

Looks pretty darn good for something that quick at 1/40s

Night panning has to be the hardest for me...I can pan all day at just about any SS I want...but at night, I dunno, I get all shaky and can't hold still...

Saturday night was my first try at night panning and I probably wouldn't have even attempted it but earlier in the day I was sitting next to a Nikon shooter in the grandstands exiting the int. horseshoe. I mentioned to him that I didn't have any fast tele lenses so usually when the sun goes down, I put the gear away.

He told me to just crank up the ISO, my body (1D III) would do fine and fire away. So I did and surprised myself with several keepers I felt good about. I will say that for every keeper I managed, there were 20 that were a fuzzed out ball of mush!

I was reading a thread where a member described his technique of keeping his arms more or less locked with his elbow against his chest/stomach and pivoting his whole body at the waist. So that's what I attempted and came out with a few good ones.

The Nikon guy was a pro and he was sitting there with a ridiculously huge 500mm 2.8 prime on a monopod in front of him in the stands. The comments from those around us were pretty funny.

wyntastr wrote in post #18261638
Saturday night was my first try at night panning and I probably wouldn't have even attempted it but earlier in the day I was sitting next to a Nikon shooter in the grandstands exiting the int. horseshoe. I mentioned to him that I didn't have any fast tele lenses so usually when the sun goes down, I put the gear away.

He told me to just crank up the ISO, my body (1D III) would do fine and fire away. So I did and surprised myself with several keepers I felt good about. I will say that for every keeper I managed, there were 20 that were a fuzzed out ball of mush!

I got better results when I went back to manual focus instead of trying to use AF.

wyntastr wrote in post #18261638
I was reading a thread where a member described his technique of keeping his arms more or less locked with his elbow against his chest/stomach and pivoting his whole body at the waist. So that's what I attempted and came out with a few good ones.

That might have been me...sounds like something I would say...I tend to coil up my body in the direction the car is coming from, and have my desired shooting point be where my shoulders area aligned with my hips so that there is no tension in my upper body.

wyntastr wrote in post #18261638
The Nikon guy was a pro and he was sitting there with a ridiculously huge 500mm 2.8 prime on a monopod in front of him in the stands. The comments from those around us were pretty funny.

I wonder if that was Foster Peters or maybe Camden Thrasher...was it a younger guy, well, they both look like a kid really!

TRhoads wrote in post #18261646
I wonder if that was Foster Peters or maybe Camden Thrasher...was it a younger guy, well, they both look like a kid really!

Here's a pic of me with the guy.

yeah, that is neither of them! HA...that is a massive lens...