Practicing a few pan shots

**Nemesis** · 06-05-2006, 02:56 PM

With the new camera. No photoshopping besides resizing.

Got bored after my dental appt.

The S2k is a little more exposed than I wanted but I was testing some things on the camera.

**A.P. Photography** · 06-05-2006, 02:57 PM

Looks like you were shooting at about 1/125 or so. Tryin to get in some practice for Chicago?

**Nemesis** · 06-05-2006, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by A.P. Photography

Looks like you were shooting at about 1/125 or so. Tryin to get in some practice for Chicago?

Yep on both!

**Nemesis** · 06-05-2006, 05:52 PM

Kinda cool...

**Kevykev** · 06-05-2006, 06:40 PM

haha camera lingo

One, ONE-THOUSANTHS BITCHES!

**BABY J** · 06-07-2006, 06:54 AM

Originally Posted by Kevykev

haha camera lingo

One, ONE-THOUSANTHS BITCHES!

Yeah.... uhhhhh. Yeah, set shutter speed to 1/78% degredation angle. Then hyper-isolate all of the primary colors w/ the fixed aperture setting. Real technical stuff here, not for the faint of heart. I have some pan shots of my own...

**speedminded** · 06-07-2006, 08:23 AM

Originally Posted by BABY J

Yeah.... uhhhhh. Yeah, set shutter speed to 1/78% degredation angle. Then hyper-isolate all of the primary colors w/ the fixed aperture setting. Real technical stuff here, not for the faint of heart. I have some pan shots of my own...

lololol, lmao!

**bunnies** · 09-09-2010, 06:39 PM

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**dereksi** · 06-05-2006, 06:42 PM

word up

**SNapper** · 06-05-2006, 06:47 PM

you take some cool ass pictures. i always look at ur threads.

how did u get the vehicles clear and the backgrounds moving? u move the camera with them?

**Nemesis** · 06-05-2006, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by SNapper

you take some cool ass pictures. i always look at ur threads.

how did u get the vehicles clear and the backgrounds moving? u move the camera with them?

Thanks man. Basically a pan shot is when you move the camera side to side while you are shooting, in the same direction and speed as the subject, in this case, the car and pepsi truck. What happens is that everything that isn't moving is blurred a bit, and everything that IS moving, is frozen. The slower the shutter speed, the more pronounced the effect.

**speedminded** · 06-06-2006, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by Nemesis Digital

The slower the shutter speed, the more pronounced the effect.

..or the faster the subject

This is shot number 182 with my old camera taken several years ago 2 days after i bought it, actually my first camera and had really never used one at all before...only a few stills of scenery but never any cars and definitely not anything moving. The car was going just under 190mph with me standling tripodless less than 100 feet away using full auto settings...barely knew what shutterspeed was and didn't have a clue how to change it, had the instruction manual in one hand and camera in the other at petit le mans

You gonna let me use your Dfiddy with you one day

I wanna see what a real camera will do

**dereksi** · 06-05-2006, 06:48 PM

man on man

**dereksi** · 06-05-2006, 06:50 PM

j/p cool pics

**ShooterMcGavin** · 06-05-2006, 10:00 PM

hawt, and i know u liked that s2ker's hat

**The Golden Child** · 06-06-2006, 02:15 PM

great shots G ..

**SixSquared** · 06-07-2006, 04:29 AM

I have a shitload of shots like this from last year's petit le mans... lol I had to kind of teach myself the technique on the fly. All of a sudden I understood why when you look through the lens using the eyepiece there's crosshairs there.

Here's a couple (they've been edited in photoshop, obviously)... I don't think I did too badly considering my subjects were moving upwards of 160mph, and I was shooting using my crappy FinePix A205

^^old one.. dirty ass show car, but a cool pic I think

I'll put up more if you guys want em when I get home

**Flip** · 06-07-2006, 04:41 AM

Nice shots man!! I'm gonna have to go try some of these later.

**Marcos Ruiz** · 06-07-2006, 10:38 AM

Nemesis

Your pics are the shit bro... I love the quality.. When the car gets done at Tophat we need to setup a shoot...

You coming to the BHC event sat?

**Nemesis** · 06-07-2006, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by Marcos Ruiz

Nemesis

Your pics are the shit bro... I love the quality.. When the car gets done at Tophat we need to setup a shoot...

You coming to the BHC event sat?

Thanks man! I actually live 5 minutes from TopHat. Just let me know man. Email me or call me. Ill shoot you a private message.

Ill actually be out of town this Saturday, Im leaving tommorrow for Chicago Formula D, but Ill be back on Sunday.

**Marcos Ruiz** · 06-07-2006, 11:28 AM

Fa sho.. Ill call you once I recieve your # and the car is finished....

**Fast Shadow** · 06-07-2006, 12:10 PM

One of my favorite panning shots from last year's PLM night practice.

**speedminded** · 06-07-2006, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by Fast Shadow

One of my favorite panning shots from last year's PLM night practice.

Is that braking for turn 6?

**Fast Shadow** · 06-07-2006, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by speedminded

Is that braking for turn 6?

Nope, it's through turns 3 and 4. I was standing on the bed of a truck as to be able to shoot over the fence.

Turn 6 is one of my favorite spots, though. I have a lot of pics from there, no glowing rotor shots though.

**speedminded** · 06-07-2006, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by Fast Shadow

Nope, it's through turns 3 and 4. I was standing on the bed of a truck as to be able to shoot over the fence.

Turn 6 is one of my favorite spots, though. I have a lot of pics from there, no glowing rotor shots though.

ahh, ok...i was trying to picture it...I couldn't remember the outside wall being that close up up there...then it appeared level too.

**A.P. Photography** · 06-07-2006, 12:13 PM

^ awesome pic. Did you shoot it?

**Fast Shadow** · 06-07-2006, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by A.P. Photography

^ awesome pic. Did you shoot it?

Yeah, I shot about 2000 pics that weekend. I try to get to PLM every year.

**A.P. Photography** · 06-07-2006, 12:29 PM

Great pic, would like to see more.

What shutter speed was this? 1/100th? 1/80th?

**Nemesis** · 06-07-2006, 01:30 PM

What do you shoot with man? Nice shots btw.

Seems like it was probably darker than it looks since you bumped the ISOs up higher.

**Fast Shadow** · 06-07-2006, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by Nemesis Digital

What do you shoot with man? Nice shots btw.

Seems like it was probably darker than it looks since you bumped the ISOs up higher.

I shot that with a Canon 1DMKII and a 70-200 F2.8L - I sold my 1D earlier this year and went back to a 20D. It was right around sunset when I took those pics. I couldn't find a good spot to pan at that was lit up so I had to stop once the sun went down.

That pic was taken at 1/320 ISO1000 according to the EXIF data. I don't think I could pan at 1/120 at higher ISOs without it being blurry. My lens doesn't have image stabilization.