Forum: Photography


Subject: Playing with Panning

SFGfx opened this issue on Feb 22, 2009 · 10 posts


SFGfx posted Sun, 22 February 2009 at 12:34 PM

Read something the other day about panning the camera to get a sense of motion.  It's a technique that I've heard about and seen before, but I never had a camera that I could try it with.  Now I do!

Funny thing is, it's not as difficult as some might think.  Took a few tries to get it right, but I think I could do it with just about anything now.

Anyone else played with this?  I would love to see some examples of what others around here have done.

Oh yeah, technical stuff.  Shot with shutter priority, 70mm, f25, 110 sec exposure, ISO 100 on a Sony a200 body with kit lens.  Didn't know it at the time, but apparently the a200 has the thing where it auto-detects horizontal panning, because I had SSS turned on and it doesn't look like it tried to compensate.

Thanks for looking!  I've shown you mine, now you show me yours!  :biggrin:

Mike