Mar 5, 2007, 17:54
Hey Uli,
I can see what you're trying to capture, and I know what you're talking about. I can probably offer a couple of suggestions :
Firstly, I think a wider perspective will give a better sense of the motion, and I would probably shoot landscape if the motion was across your field of view (as opposed to coming towards you).
Secondly, in general, photography is all about freezing motion, so using the default settings will make even cars on a racetrack look like they're parked there. As you suggested, you can try a technique called panning, which is where you use a slow shutter speed and then "track" the subject as it moves so that it is in focus, while everything else (background, etc.) is blurred. It takes quite a bit of practice...
There's a couple of threads here on panning:
http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4376
http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5048
Hope that helps...
I can see what you're trying to capture, and I know what you're talking about. I can probably offer a couple of suggestions :
Firstly, I think a wider perspective will give a better sense of the motion, and I would probably shoot landscape if the motion was across your field of view (as opposed to coming towards you).
Secondly, in general, photography is all about freezing motion, so using the default settings will make even cars on a racetrack look like they're parked there. As you suggested, you can try a technique called panning, which is where you use a slow shutter speed and then "track" the subject as it moves so that it is in focus, while everything else (background, etc.) is blurred. It takes quite a bit of practice...
There's a couple of threads here on panning:
http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4376
http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5048
Hope that helps...