The Skater

[Atorie]

My first attempt at panning a skateboarder...


The Skater
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: 18-70mm 3.5-4.5 (kit)
Focal Length: 38mm
Exposure: 1/400s @ f/8
ISO: 100... (EDIT: Arh, i meant 200)

[stubbsy]

Michael

You've nailed it pretty well. Only his hands are a little blurry. Panning is something I've yet to master so kudos to you.

[Paul]

Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: 18-70mm 3.5-4.5 (kit)
Focal Length: 38mm
Exposure: 1/400s @ f/8
ISO: 100

ISO 100 surely ISO 200
Nice picture, great underneath angle!

[Geoff]

Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: 18-70mm 3.5-4.5 (kit)
Focal Length: 38mm
Exposure: 1/400s @ f/8
ISO: 100

ISO 100 surely ISO 200
Nice picture, great underneath angle!

Paul,
Didn't u get the firmware upgrade that allows the D70 to go to ISO 100?

[PiroStitch]

how do you pan at 1/400???? Everytime I've tried panning something at 1/400 I always end up with a frozen image :S

Good stuff

Geoff, there's also an uber update which lets me drop my iso down to 25

[Paul]

Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: 18-70mm 3.5-4.5 (kit)
Focal Length: 38mm
Exposure: 1/400s @ f/8
ISO: 100

ISO 100 surely ISO 200
Nice picture, great underneath angle!

Paul,
Didn't u get the firmware upgrade that allows the D70 to go to ISO 100?

Is this the upgrade that gives me 11 A/F positions and 24MP?

[Atorie]

Yeah i meant 200.. my Sony... ah we can only hope.

[big pix]

good image....... but to tell more of a story I would have liked to have seen a bit more in front or behind the skater so he is coming into or going out of frame, this should give more impact. Maybe a different crop......

[Jeroen]

nice image good angle

jeroen

[kipper]

Nice shot, but for panning with busy backgrounds you'd probably want a slower shutter speed. It's tack sharp but I would like to see the background blurred to show motion. Take a look at a previous POTW winner of a Mountain Bike competition, in that case though the subject would of been travelling a lot faster so it would of helped to blur while panning.

[Atorie]

Thanks for the comments everyone...

BP - This is the uncropped image, i got pretty close, i have a few more but didn't pay enough attention to my DOF.

Kipper - Yeah I need a fair bit more practice with panning to capture those sort of pics, that one on the bike is a fav of mine... i had a bit of trouble with the light, it was midday and very bright.

[kipper]

Just keep up the work, experiment. Set it to manual and play with varying settings. If you know the blokes ask them to repeat what they did so you can try different techniques.

Then go home and review what you did. Hopefully you can figure out what worked and what didn't.

[big pix]

shoot slower speed, to get more movement, give yourself a bit more room in frame with your subject, try some using fill flash to get a bit of sharpness along with a blur, and a quickpan, the same as shooting cars, you can practise on the local highway........