Panning shot. Comments and suggestions please.

[onyx39]

Took the following shot at the Hartley Wintney meet on New Years Day, I am rather pleased with it, i took a load of "panned shots"' these are my favourites, but can I improve on my technique? I generally use 1/40th of a second as a shutter speed.

[TomN94]

Zoom out a little more so you get more of the subject in the frame, which will hopefully help in making the subject sharper, and same goes for the bike, if that was side on, it would've been too close to the subject

[Craikeybaby]

As above really, on the first picture I would have preferred to see the whole car. On the second one I don't think there is really enough sharp for a 3/4 pan to work.

[4Lmike]

definitely need to stand much further away, and side-on preferably.

[onyx39]

Craikeybaby said:

As above really, on the first picture I would have preferred to see the whole car. On the second one I don't think there is really enough sharp for a 3/4 pan to work.

Better?

[Craikeybaby]

Yes!

[covboy]

Try and leave the background clear of "clutter".

You need something there to show the speed, but houses/street furniture/people can be a distraction

[onyx39]

covboy said:

Try and leave the background clear of "clutter".

You need something there to show the speed, but houses/street furniture/people can be a distraction

Cheers guys, the "Bug" shot was taken by chance as the car was passing and I happened to have the camera on slow shutter speed, the other bike shot was just messing around and the silver (Bugatti?) was clearly taken to close. All a learing curve. I tend to get the opportunity to practice this kind of thing at Goodwood, bit will definitley bear in mind the comments above.