Practicing?????

[DUCMONROB]

I did this a little while ago on my point and shoot panasonic TZ7, its over-exposed to buggery but as I was (like you) just getting a feel and as you can see gives the notion of movement, even though my grandaughter was going pretty slow



                                Mmick

Still looks pretty cool MMick!
Rob

[monstermick58]

Oh! I forgot to mention.

               f/4.2

               1/50 sec

               Iso-80




                                      Mmick

[cakeman]

Oh! I forgot to mention.

               f/4.2

               1/50 sec

               Iso-80




                                      Mmick

Thats a great photo. So are you following her with the camera and then click the shutter?

I think what i was doing wrong was i was focusing on a point on the road before the rider was there and when they entered my viewfinder i was clicking..... im not sure if thats the right or wrong way of doing it

[DUCMONROB]

Thats a great photo. So are you following her with the camera and then click the shutter?

I think what i was doing wrong was i was focusing on a point on the road before the rider was there and when they entered my viewfinder i was clicking..... im not sure if thats the right or wrong way of doing it

Cakeman you need to pan with the object that you want to be in focus which will cause the background to blurr.

Robs 2 cents

[cakeman]

Cakeman you need to pan with the object that you want to be in focus which will cause the background to blurr.

Robs 2 cents

thought so...... its tough to do when your zoomed in quite a bit, ill get it one day

[mattyvas]

It depends on the desired result, freezing motion as you have kind of described is one to go about it but it doesn't give you much of an idea of speed and motion as everything appears still in the image.

Panning which is the example that Mmick has put up is a great way to show the motion of an activity even if the subject is not moving sly that fast.
Panning is ideally done in a radius action where the subject is moving around you in a predicable manner.
It is also done at lower or longer shutter speeds and smaller f-stops (f/11 and above depending on light conditions)

Usually at EC on turn 3, in full sun i work at 125th or lower, 100iso or so, f/14 or so. All dependent on conditions of course.
But don't take my word for it, i haven't been doing this stuff for long...