Hi, when i take panning shots at around 1/50 at f4 from some cars in some shot the front of the car is very sharp while the rear is just motion blurred a whole lot. at the moment i can’t make 1/40th work, i do get some good shots but this issue has persisted for the past little while. for reference i shot around 2k panning shots in that past 2 months and around 100-150 keepers.

are there any suggestions for taking better panning shots of cars like settings?

are there any tips on how to make lower shutter speeds work? specifically when you see a ridiculously smeared background(like 1/10 second shutter) on a photo is it tool assisted?

and to make sure what is a normal keeper rate for you guys so i know how much i need to improve my technique.

any help would be appreciated thanks.

  • RevTurk@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Moving further away and using a longer lens might improve results, although I don’t know what focal length your using now. With a panning shot if the car is fairly close to you, the camera is rotating a bit so your getting perspective twist as well as panning.

    A bit of motion blur at the rear is probably helping the effect too.

    If you’re post processing you can also add a bit more motion blur. Photoshop has excellent motion blurring that allows you to set the path and exact blur. I’ve used it on shots to help the motion blur effect.

    I tried it out in this image, I even separated out the image so I could have less motion blur on some parts of the image. I think it came out all right on these parked cars.

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    https://preview.redd.it/6rri0xbo3j1c1.jpeg?width=2043&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e3f4b0f894995e13889efa467d1ffd633068f61

    • theGuyFromNoMansLand@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      i do add blur in post as just at needs a little extra, its because i can’t go lower than 1/50 which makes just a little bit of blur at best.