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You suffer the same problem I do... a dirty sensor... albeit yours is not as bad as mine. If you look at the blurred portions there are dark spots. For instance, I can tell you cropped the first two pictures differently by the location of the spots. In the first pic, directly above the center/top of the car you will see two spots. In the second picture, those two spots are in a different location ( a little further to the right ).
You should see some of my panned shots.... I haven't even posted them up because the spots are horrendous.
Makes me wonder if the pros don't have to touch up every panning shot, unless they are doing something I don't know about (other than cleaning the sensor). I wish I knew.
Here are some I had to touch up:
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I got a chevy with a mopar cam, I'll be your jonny on the spot!
Is that the only trick... just cleaning the sensor? What do you use to clean it with?
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I saw the spots but had no idea what it was. Thank you for the help!!
See I like the clarity of your subject matter with your panning. However it looks like you may have been using a slightly faster shutter speed then I was "attempting" to use. The group I was doing the shoot for wanted the background to be virtually unrecognizable. I played around with shutter literally all day. Only a few of them did I even get close to what I thought was acceptable.
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a few add on's, but we can sort it all out on the track
Is that the only trick... just cleaning the sensor? What do you use to clean it with?
I use two methods depending on how dirty it is. The first method is with a brush, very simple and quick. For anything the brush can't remove, I'll use a wet solution. There are a wide range of products for sensor cleaning.
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Originally Posted by Billhyco
See I like the clarity of your subject matter with your panning. However it looks like you may have been using a slightly faster shutter speed then I was "attempting" to use.
The blur of the background is relative to the vehicle speed. If you're shooting faster cars, you can get by with a faster shutter speed. If you're shooting slower cars, then you need a slower shutter speed to capture the blur. The general rule of thumb is shutter speed 1/vehicle speed. For Solo II autocross, 1/60 works well. For cars going down the straight away at NJMP, 1/150-1/200 works well.
A Few Track Photos..Playing Around With Panning
