first try with panning + car-to-car

Well yesterday was the first time i tried panning random cars on the road as well as a car-to-car(mazda 3)
lmk what you guys think

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You are going about this very wrong. The shutter speed on the night shots was 1/25" and 1/13" on the daylight shots.

As a result each shot is less sharp than it could be.
Instead of Using Shutter Priority (Tv mode), you should set it for Aperture Priority with large aperture (such as f/4 instead of f/29) and hope that you get a quick enough shutter speed, such as 1/500".

Thanks for the info I'll try again tomorrow hopefully, now.....how exactly do you find out the settings from just the JPEG?

there are free exif viewers available...opanda is a popular one.

nez wrote in post #7804383
Thanks for the info I'll try again tomorrow hopefully, now.....how exactly do you find out the settings from just the JPEG?

As you can see, the EXIF portion of a JPG image file has room for lots of goodies.
However, some programs remove the EXIF data when doing a "Save for Web".

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thanks fellas
ill work on that this week

not too bad. i do this quite often as well on the side of the road.
however, if you are to use a fast shutter speed of say 1/500 like mentioned above wouldnt the photo come out looking like you froze time and lack the blurred background giving the illusion of movement?

Robert_Lay wrote in post #7806281
However, some programs remove the EXIF data when doing a "Save for Web".

Oooo that might be handy sometimes. Any idea which programs do that?

team haymaker wrote in post #7809587
not too bad. i do this quite often as well on the side of the road.
however, if you are to use a fast shutter speed of say 1/500 like mentioned above wouldnt the photo come out looking like you froze time and lack the blurred background giving the illusion of movement?

That's what I was thinking. I could see that you would have a shallow depth of field and therefore possibly an interesting image, but as you say I would expect litle or no motion blur.

Bethel wrote in post #7809856
Oooo that might be handy sometimes. Any idea which programs do that?

All versions of Photoshop, so far as I know.

Hmmm. The Challenger might be a cool shot, IF the entire care was in the frame. I'm not really liking the cut off cars. Just look like snaps to me.

Robert_Lay wrote in post #7804152
You are going about this very wrong. The shutter speed on the night shots was 1/25" and 1/13" on the daylight shots.

As a result each shot is less sharp than it could be.
Instead of Using Shutter Priority (Tv mode), you should set it for Aperture Priority with large aperture (such as f/4 instead of f/29) and hope that you get a quick enough shutter speed, such as 1/500".

1/500 is going to be pretty fast for panning. Try 1/250 and work your way down. You want to get a sharp shot but not freeze all the motion. 1/500 your going to start losing most of the motion in the background and even the wheels will start to freeze.

tinner18 wrote in post #7812655
Hmmm. The Challenger might be a cool shot, IF the entire care was in the frame. I'm not really liking the cut off cars. Just look like snaps to me.

yeah i didnt like the cut off either, but all the shots with the full car were blurred...perhaps next time ill have better luck