Vintage Cars - Panning Practice

[asnow]

I got a lot of practice at panning when I was the the vintage car racing. Every one of these is a different car and I couldn't chose which ones to show so you are getting the whole set.

[asnow]

Set #2

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Set 3

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One last one

[theantiquetiger]

This one for me

http://www.photography.ca/Forums/attachments/f22/15593d1341459509-vintage-cars-panning-practice-vintage_panning-13.jpg

[Yisehaq]

Nice series and good techniques

[Marko]

Good practise for sure - fun set!

[asnow]

Thanks AT, Yisehaq and Marko. It was great practice. At first I tried 1/60 of a sec and my hit rate (in focus) wasn't too high. I finally zeroed in on 1/100 to 1/125 as the optimal speed for me. This was with my 55 to 250 lens. I remember seeing a podcast of pro photographer that does F1 racing and even with those monster lenses he was shooting at a ridiculous speed I believe he said 1/15 sec. Yikes those guys are good.

AT - My favourites (cars not necessarily pictures) are the MGs and the Minis. I had to laugh at the green Jaguar. It doesn't look too racey, It's like somebody is out for a luxury drive around the track.

[edG]

very cool series - well done

[asnow]

Thanks Ed

[AntZ]

Some cool cars and great sense of speed in those shots.

[asnow]

Thanks AntZ. I was hoping I could blurr the backgound enough to give that sense of speed. I also remember somebody saying that you want a fast enough speed to get the car sharp but slow enough to get a blurr in the tires. I think I generally accomplished this at 1/100 to 1/125 sec. I think it took me about 30 to 40 pictures before I finally got the panning motion down before I could get the cars sharp.

[Barefoot]

These are freking pantastic!

[Iguanasan]

A very nice set. They made a big mistake though... 53 should have been on a Volkswagon Beetle not a Jag. ;)

[asnow]

Thanks Barefoot, Iggy.
Iggy - I'd don't understand why you said 53 should have been on a Beetle. What is the mistake???

[Hillbillygirl]

WOW, these are awesome Asnow. Love seeing these classics being used for what many of them were made for. Just, would almost cry if some got into a wreck.

[asnow]

Thanks HBG. Panning cars is a lot easier than birds. At least cars go in predictable track and are a lot bigger to lock your focus onto. Saw no wrecks (thank goodness), mind you I was only there for about 3 hours.