Why thank you, Adam. I learned to pan out of necessity. When I workd at Motor Magazine twenty years ago, my boss absolutely loved pans. Among my duties was shooting the new cars at the various car company long leads. If I didn't come back with at least half a dozen good pans, I would catch hell. For the most part, I shot them with a Mamiy 1000TL and a Vivitar 200/3.5 lens. The cars were being driven by other journalists and usually moved at forty to sixty mph. I would shoot at 1/30th of a second. That big, heavy Vivitar lens had enough heft to enable a smooth sweep. I soon learned that it was important to twist my upper torso as the car was picked up down the road. Then I would unwind as I panned so that I'd be in a forward, comfortable position at the moment of shutter release. I also discovered that the follow through is critical. The shutter release came in the middle of the pan, but the movement had to be continued until my torso was twisted in the opposite direction from where I began.
BTW, I shot with that Vivitar lens for at least fifteen years and made a lot of money with it. In the end it was held together with duct tape, and the front element was scratched from cleaning tire rubber off of it with my T-shirt. (I used it to shoot drag racing as well.) It now holds a place of honor in my camera display case. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 3/17/08, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Heh, I'm just being a bit facetious ;-) My only issues with brakeless > > > fixies are the lack of fault tolerance. I prefer my bikes with more > > > than one braking system. > > > > > > I actually shot this on friday and posted on saturday. > > > > > > I figured as much... > > > > ;-) > > > > BTW, I forgot to mention that that's a wonderful photo. Great panning! > > > > cheers, > > > > frank > > > > Thanks! > > I aspire to Paul's panning skills. One day I hope to deliver something > to match his panned Hot Rod shots. > -- > M. Adam Maas > http://www.mawz.ca > Explorations of the City Around Us. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
