Panning

=Panning Motion= Panning motion is a technique to capture the action of the subject, yet allowing the background to go into a motion blur. This is different to using the aperture to blur the background.

Can you work out how to create a shot like these? by. Sarah Lee





In all these cases the shutter speed was about 1/15th of a second (so quite slow!), and the camera is moving to follow the action. When you judge that you have the subject in your frame, take the picture! A lot of trial and error goes into panning motion as you also have to deal with camera shake. It can take many frames to produce a really good shot.