Vintage Cars - Panning Practice

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.

Set #2

Set 3

One last one

This one for me

http://www.photography.ca/Forums/att...panning-13.jpg

Nice series and good techniques

Good practise for sure - fun set!

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.

very cool series - well done

Thanks Ed

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

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.

These are freking pantastic!

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

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

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.

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.