You're getting the hang of this panning stuff - the last Friday shot before the clutch plates is pretty sharp, but has a reasonable amount of blur on the wheels.
The Saturday shots of the Western Metals #88 are nice and crisp, too. I like the head-on shot of Nicole on Saturday (#34 of 58). For most of the side-view shots, though, I think you're using too high a shutter speed - there's no real sense of motion. Using a slower shutter speed is going to mean you get less keepers, but when you do get one right it's going to result in a much more compelling action photograph. One of the regulars on the IndyCar circuit could reliably nail a pan shot of cars at full speed at 1/8 of a second (and that's before we had image stabilisation to help smooth out irregularities in the panning). I wasn't that good, but I've got a fair number of keepers at 1/30, and even one or two at 1/20. But 1/250 works pretty well; a car moving at 150mph is going to travel almost a foot during the exposure, which is going to give you a lot of blur on the wheels (and on any background). Assuming cars are moving at 100mph or faster, I'd suggest starting at maybe 1/500, and switching to 1/250 when you get a bit more confident. On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 11:24:51AM -0400, Larry Colen wrote: > I'm too busy being pit mom, running errands etc. to spend the time to do my > best job of sorting through and polishing the photos, but I'm posting some > quick and dirties up on facebook for the social networking, particularly so > the Driver's friends can see what she's up to. These links should work for > everyone: > > Friday: > https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153729616824673.1073742084.653299672&type=1&l=384076ed49 > > Saturday: > https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153731750259673.1073742086.653299672&type=1&l=f4afadd4e2 > > Sunday: > https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153732593834673.1073742087.653299672&type=1&l=fe48433115 > > We are fighting some interesting technical difficulties. Sometimes when she > tries to shift into fifth either the clutch won't re-engage or the car won't > go into gear. We just heard from a friend of her's at Ford, there are a > couple of known problems with the Mustang GT clutch and with the shifter > mount. > > Last night I caught some snaps of Nicole benchracing with some friends, and > her friend asked me what I was doing tonight. It turns out that a couple of > racers are getting married this evening on the beach and they need a > photographer. > > Many thanks to John who loaned me his 50-135 and 60-250. Fortunately I > haven't needed the weather sealed lenses yet, but that's just been luck of > the draw with the sessions falling between rainstorms. I have come to the > conclusion that Florida does not have what I consider to be ideal climate. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) > > -- > 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.
