Digital photography

I pretty much only ever use 1/30th for pans, max aperture then adjust the ISO for the right exposure.

Interesting, I'll keep that in mind. Hadn't looked into what settings I should be focusing on, but I think my shutter speed was similar.

But I was using like f/5.6 etc, should I have used towards the f1.4 end instead?

And that kids reaction :')

I think you'd struggle to get decent exposures at f1.4 and 1/30 in daylight at any reasonable ISO setting, maybe he meant the other end of the scale?

Sorry to clarify, I'm using a 70-200 f4 so to deal with the lack of light which is normally a problem in woods and the last few times I've shot its been evening time anyway so the light is low, so I'll be at f4. That's just a general rule I use, some of those ^ were shot at a smaller aperture. I probably would stay around f8 if it was in good daylight. I definitely wouldn't go to f1.4 cos the chances of getting anything in focus then is pretty low, sorry I didn't make that very clear at all!

I find getting an in-focus panning shot a very frustrating experience. I took loads at the Giro, most of them a blurry mess. These are the only two I'm remotely happy with.

At least this guy wasn't moving

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Cheers,

I found it really helps having a view finder with a circle in the middle, that way i just try my best to keep the subject in the circle whilst panning and usually I'm quite successful. Other than that its basically luck, a vertical plane helps a lot though

I really like the colour shot and one with the spectators by SamJT.
Panning doesn't have to be just about getting the subject perfectly recognisable though - that 'blurry mess' can be exploited and taken to extremes, as long as something is sharp.

Nice.

Quoted for new page.
Fucking great!

...so I'm always bitching about peoples' pictures not being straight / "balanced", etc. -
just had a hell of a time trying to correct images taken with Canon's EF-S 17-85 @ 17mm.
I give up / conclusion: don't use this at 17mm for pictures like that, wobble remains wobble.

Liquify tool in Photoshop?

Yes, that of course would be an option,
but I generally don't use this, and am definately not willing to correct every image I shoot with that lens that way.

Yeah, sod that. Mustache distortion is hard to correct - did you try using the lens profile?

60D / 40mm STM

you try using the lens profile?

..no, just PS' lens correction / remove distortion @ 4.5

^^ yum.

Try using the lens profile, it'll probably get the worst of the wonkiness...

I really like the colour shot and one with the spectators by SamJT.
Panning doesn't have to be just about getting the subject perfectly recognisable though - that 'blurry mess' can be exploited and taken to extremes, as long as something is sharp.

Love those shots, sometimes the whole thing being a blurry mess can work too ;) this is a swimmer doing a tumble turn...

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That's very nice

^^That one did stick out to me on the website, I thought it was a wave though!

Colour!?

Great shot.

It gets worse: colour *and *fences.

Nice!

I used to take half reasonable pictures. I changed cameras and don't regret the change in terms of image quality, and I get less abuse from randoms than I did when I was waving a D700 around - but I've seemingly lost my mojo sometime around the change. I don't think it's the tools, I think it's me - but how to get it back? Any suggestions?