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Re: Photography - Panning question

Nothing wrong with that shot.

Adjusting your white balance can have large effects on the hues.

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Re: Photography - Panning question

Yeah, I really like that shot of the orange BMW, color and focus wise... Now I can work on better spots to shoot from as well.

The white balance was one of the things I changed.. The Auto white balance on my camera shows things blue.. at least it looks blue to me no matter what device or screen I look at these pictures on.

Both taken on a bright sunny day.. all other settings the same.

This is Auto White balance

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-l88vhHtXvLM/URgAjK2peoI/AAAAAAAAD-Y/coW1UfPg6c4/s600/DSC_0068.JPG


And this is the Cloudy WB setting ..  it looks slightly over exposed though

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-IzCFC9JuptI/URgAgRTfceI/AAAAAAAAD-M/kkLF_S0bxD0/s600/DSC_0067.JPG

Maybe I should take the time to create my own WB preset..

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Re: Photography - Panning question

My favorite panning shot.  Taken at Charlotte last year.  I think I set it to continuous/servo AF, increased the exposure time, and set the f-stop low for a shallow depth of field.  One significant key to panning (and shooting skeet) is to keep the lens moving l/r or r/l after you shoot... keep tracking the movement.


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Re: Photography - Panning question

That is a cool looking Legend!  I saw them race at Summit Point last November, but none of them had the splitter or rear wing.

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I don't know how she (Alex Huff, 2pnt0) does it but she gets some extreme pan in her shots. Her Flikr photos of T'hill are gone but I found a few here:

Link: http://500px.com/2pnt0/sets/motorsports

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Another sample - http://500px.com/photo/10199085?from=set/334535

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Re: Photography - Panning question

m610 wrote:

I don't know how she (Alex Huff, 2pnt0) does it but she gets some extreme pan in her shots. Her Flikr photos of T'hill are gone but I found a few here:

Link: http://500px.com/2pnt0/sets/motorsports

I'd bet some of those were done in post. Just my hunch/experience...

I like to shoot fast enough to stop the car but not fast enough (shutter speed) to stop wheel motion, shots of "cars sitting on the track" aren't my favorite. Got that tip from Scott Kelby's blog, he's shot motorsports (although now it seems to be mainly football/basketball - maybe the season, who knows?)

Lots of tips at http://www.sportsshooter.com/ too, I've only scratched the surface there. Ron (here in the forum) is one of the best Lemons shooters I've seen, it would be fun to follow him around.

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Re: Photography - Panning question

racinrob wrote:

That is a cool looking Legend!  I saw them race at Summit Point last November, but none of them had the splitter or rear wing.

From what we found out.. they modded that thing up for road track racing. It was cool to watch vs the Corvettes, M3s, Porsches, etc..  but was always in the run group before mine and I did not get any track pics of it.

DC Doug wrote:

My favorite panning shot.  Taken at Charlotte last year.  I think I set it to continuous/servo AF, increased the exposure time, and set the f-stop low for a shallow depth of field.  One significant key to panning (and shooting skeet) is to keep the lens moving l/r or r/l after you shoot... keep tracking the movement.

I was playing with depth of field.. some of the pics I got where so shallow the front of the car was in focus and the back was not.. I think it is cool to get the full car and some.. so if the light is there i now find it better to give yourself some focus room to work with..

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-GID9RDMrp4g/USvFychNCfI/AAAAAAAAFZw/K6asM-ruNRw/s760/photo.jpg


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I like to shoot fast enough to stop the car but not fast enough (shutter speed) to stop wheel motion, shots of "cars sitting on the track" aren't my favorite. Got that tip from Scott Kelby's blog, he's shot motorsports (although now it seems to be mainly football/basketball - maybe the season, who knows?)

Lots of tips at http://www.sportsshooter.com/ too, I've only scratched the surface there. Ron (here in the forum) is one of the best Lemons shooters I've seen, it would be fun to follow him around.

That is the main idea I am going for is to show motion. I will check out the sportsshooter site for sure, the more info the better.

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Re: Photography - Panning question

You need to calibrate your monitor.
Most monitors come with the color temperature over 10000K now, it sucks but it makes whites look 'whiter' to people who don't know what they're looking at.  I was responsible for getting a color calibration standard in place and calibrating monitors at the video game company I used to work at, it's really important not to judge how something looks when the display device isn't calibrated.

The first picture on auto-balance looks great on a calibrated monitor.  The front fenders are a nice clean white with perhaps a hint of blue from being in the shadows, the trailer has a little sepia in it from the sunset.  The second picture looks horrible, like you took out all the blue.

socal.colin wrote:

Yeah, I really like that shot of the orange BMW, color and focus wise... Now I can work on better spots to shoot from as well.

The white balance was one of the things I changed.. The Auto white balance on my camera shows things blue.. at least it looks blue to me no matter what device or screen I look at these pictures on.

Both taken on a bright sunny day.. all other settings the same.

This is Auto White balance

--  snip --

And this is the Cloudy WB setting ..  it looks slightly over exposed though

-- snip --

Maybe I should take the time to create my own WB preset..

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Re: Photography - Panning question

erich wrote:

You need to calibrate your monitor.
Most monitors come with the color temperature over 10000K now, it sucks but it makes whites look 'whiter' to people who don't know what they're looking at.  I was responsible for getting a color calibration standard in place and calibrating monitors at the video game company I used to work at, it's really important not to judge how something looks when the display device isn't calibrated.

The first picture on auto-balance looks great on a calibrated monitor.  The front fenders are a nice clean white with perhaps a hint of blue from being in the shadows, the trailer has a little sepia in it from the sunset.  The second picture looks horrible, like you took out all the blue.

socal.colin wrote:

Yeah, I really like that shot of the orange BMW, color and focus wise... Now I can work on better spots to shoot from as well.

The white balance was one of the things I changed.. The Auto white balance on my camera shows things blue.. at least it looks blue to me no matter what device or screen I look at these pictures on.

Both taken on a bright sunny day.. all other settings the same.

This is Auto White balance

--  snip --

And this is the Cloudy WB setting ..  it looks slightly over exposed though

-- snip --

Maybe I should take the time to create my own WB preset..

You are correct the cloudy white balance does look bad, i have been paying more attention taking pics of other things.... I actually have recently adjusted my monitor and have gone back to auto wb most of the time. One thing though is most monitors defaults are generally the same.. so the average person who sees my photos on the net sees them the way I do.  I also turned off ADL - not sure what it is supposed to do, but I generally do not like what it does. Sure soon enough I will learn and realize I should be using it in some situations.

I have used a quick and dirty auto color correct in a few different programs and most of them change the photos to look more like the way they come out on auto wb. 

I still really like the way the orange bmw came out with my hacked up settings.. but  there is no white or any blue on it. Meh.. all perception..

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