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Took this at the weekend, although it's blurred and not the best framing, I think it captures the violence and speed of the car rather well...
slinky
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i understand what your saying, but when i take a picture of a moving car and the car isn't in focus but is blurry like yours i bin it, because its not what i call a good photo, if the car was in focus it would be a great shot, but i don't like it. if you do though, then thats all that matters!
slinky said:
and not the best framing, I think it captures the violence and speed of the car rather well...
I think the picture is appealing because the framing does work. It adheres to the the good 'ol rule of thirds and there is a great sense of speed which is helped by the fact the car is on the right, which I think gives an impression that the car is about to shoot out of frame. I agree it would be better if the car wasn't blurred, but on the other hand if you're the driver doing an 8sec quarter mile, I bet everything goes blurry! (IMHO, devil's advocate kind of way.)
Whilst technically there are a number of 'faults' does it matter? At the end of the day it is how an individual reacts emotionally to an image. Some people will react positively others the opposite.
It is a similar emotional experience as listening to music, some you like some you don't even by the same artiste.
The question posed was not do you think this is a technically excellant image?
It is a similar emotional experience as listening to music, some you like some you don't even by the same artiste.
The question posed was not do you think this is a technically excellant image?
Edited by scooby_snax on Thursday 10th May 07:53
As a print or poster it could look well if given the oil-painting abstracty filter or cut-out effect in photoshop, but you should probably aim for a higher shutter speed next time, as well as a sharper subject it would give a more deeply defined streaking effect in the wheels and background to emphasise motion. Nothing worse than a static bang 'frozen in time' motionless shot (although large aperture / head-on shots work well for other reasons like subject isolation) but 0 to 100 in 2secs or whatever is always going to be difficult particularly as the car keeps accelerating (and you must do likewise) while panning so 1/200 - 1-160 should nail it it pretty good.
If it were me I'd cheat and snap the car while moving a lot slower (maybe in the warm up blast?) with a slowish 1/60sec pan so you've got tonnes of smoke and drama to add etc. Basically, aim for higher shutter speeds and work you way down from there until the car becomes blurry and find a happy medium maybe one stop above. Use continuous autofocus or manually pre-focus where the car will pass and bang as many fps as you can while panning, more than likely one towards the centre (while you're 'catching up' with the car) will be spot on, out of a possible 6 or 7 shots per run.
Even miniscule sensor dust is greatly emphasised at smaller apertures (like f16 / f22 etc.) so you could pick up a Rocket air blaster or similar from 7dayshop.com, happy snapping!.
If it were me I'd cheat and snap the car while moving a lot slower (maybe in the warm up blast?) with a slowish 1/60sec pan so you've got tonnes of smoke and drama to add etc. Basically, aim for higher shutter speeds and work you way down from there until the car becomes blurry and find a happy medium maybe one stop above. Use continuous autofocus or manually pre-focus where the car will pass and bang as many fps as you can while panning, more than likely one towards the centre (while you're 'catching up' with the car) will be spot on, out of a possible 6 or 7 shots per run.
Even miniscule sensor dust is greatly emphasised at smaller apertures (like f16 / f22 etc.) so you could pick up a Rocket air blaster or similar from 7dayshop.com, happy snapping!.
I was aiming for a slower shutter speed to give movement, I have plenty of faster shutter speed shots that look somewhat clinical.
Not having a press pass (but running with a startline pass) means that it's difficult to get close to the action for photography, added to the fact that cars of this nature don't tend to reach half track during their burnout... I wanted to capture the car under the stresses of a full bore pass...
I appreciate the sensor cleaning sentiment, and it's something I'll be doing, but at the end of the day, I'm not a technically marvellous photographer, I just felt it captured something about the event...
I'll post another shot from the event later today..
Not having a press pass (but running with a startline pass) means that it's difficult to get close to the action for photography, added to the fact that cars of this nature don't tend to reach half track during their burnout... I wanted to capture the car under the stresses of a full bore pass...
I appreciate the sensor cleaning sentiment, and it's something I'll be doing, but at the end of the day, I'm not a technically marvellous photographer, I just felt it captured something about the event...
I'll post another shot from the event later today..
First opinion - I didn't like it and just thought it showed panning with too slow a shutter speed.
Leaving it a few moments and coming back I actually am warming to it. I guess in some ways all the excellent panning shots you see on here, do get a bit 'samey' after a while...
Just my 2p worth...
Leaving it a few moments and coming back I actually am warming to it. I guess in some ways all the excellent panning shots you see on here, do get a bit 'samey' after a while...
Just my 2p worth...
monkeyhanger said:
If you like it who cares what anyone else thinks ?
However, if i was aiming for that particular shot i'd select the bottom right focus point to track the car and use a shutter speed around 1/60th....but that's me
However, if i was aiming for that particular shot i'd select the bottom right focus point to track the car and use a shutter speed around 1/60th....but that's me
I was shooting at 1/30th and am still amazed I got the car in shot
(new to this panning lark you see..)
slinky said:
chris.mapey said:
I still am unsure about it though.
Get your sensor cleaned though, started processing & there are loads of specs of dust...
Chris
Really, my sensor is fine, the lens was filthy!
OK - I'll believe you. Just looked like the specs I got when my sensors wasn't clean that's all...
Chris
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