How do u get pics like this? not 100% sure

 

Excellent shot! Good background/motion blur with a clear focus.

 

his question was how. I am VERY curious too... i mean i can take moving shots when i am in a moving car moving with the target i am shooting... BUT i cannot take moving shots when i am standing still. its basically LUCK for me. sometimes it comes out like its supposed to, but sometimes the background is clear and my target is blurry..

 

Not 100% sure either, but I think someone was saying in a thread once that it is the camera they used. I think it is with the professional camera the lens that they use. Just a geuss though sorry if I am wrong.

 

its called panning, you basically stand in one spot and follow the subject with your lens using a slow shutter speed, make sure to follow through for a smooth shot. Starting to shoot after you are already moving helps too. Some more expensive lenses let you set type of image stabilization to vertical only which helps too.

heres a tut:

http://digital-photography-school.co...ving-subjects/

 

^thank you for the useful information. now im going out to try it. lol

 

ok so i tried...
out of about 30 shots i took, only these 10 came out clear. not that clear but clear enough to see what car..

 

2nd to last (green ford) is your best shot IMO. Oh also one thing I forgot to mention, I'm not sure what its called on the D40, but set your camera to continuous auto focus if you haven't already.

 

LOL i was playing with my menu last night and found the continuous AF. didnt even know I had it. yeah, ill just keep practicing.

 

If you're shooting something that will follow the same path (ie cars on a racetrack), you can pre-focus on a specific spot (or spots) and hit the shutter release at that specific area. I use this at the trace track since it eliminates the camera's autofocus system from the equation. Even the best cameras won't have 100% accuracy when set to continuous AF.

Example:
On this corner, the cars were hitting the same apex over and over so I pre-focused at that spot, so it was just a matter of getting the pan speed in sync with the vehicle speed and timing it right.


It takes practice, but it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it. I've done panning with a 350D, 10D, 20D, and 1D MKII. I've done it with low end lenses and high end lenses. Good gear helps increase the keeper rate, but it can be done with entry level bodies and beginner lenses.

 

^damn nice shot

 

Infinus is right.

Some tips that Dave (the original photographer/pic posted) has given me:

-Remember to adjust your shutter speed to the vehicles speed.
-Center your focus point on the front wheel.
-Hold that shutter down and snap away!
-Keep a steady hand. Tripods r not always the best when it comes to panning but they can help.

Dave's work is awesome: www.dwstevens.com

 

I try to follow the subject with my left eye and move accordingly.

 

Yup thats how you do it.. I generally focus on the front of the vehicle somewhere..

As far as shutter speed, try to match the speed of the car.. For example if the car is going 100mph then have a shutter of 1/100th


Here are a few more that I have done..

 

wow. thanks for the help guys! pictures look awesome!

 

Any advice for nighttime panning?

 

ohhh +1 and low light... almost impossible for me!

low lighting parking garage.. i forgot what the shutter speed was set to but ap. was 4ish? lowest my d40 can go.

 

The same rules apply to night shots.. You just need to bump the ISO or have really fast glass.

This was taken with the same lens as all the others were. Just slightly different settings..

 

ohh. so make the iso higher so the shutterspeed are similar to the day shots? such as 1/100 for 100mph 1/60 for 60mph?

 

that picture i posted up there was taken at 200 iso, i totally forgot about the iso.. thanks!