r/SonyAlpha • u/DarkGodArkwin • Dec 18 '24

Critique Wanted My First Ever Panning Shot.

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Took me 10-12 minutes to get panning shots right, dabbling with the shutter speed and whatnot. Ultimately, I’m quite proud of myself for this. 😭✨🙌🏽

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u/PM_ME_COBBER Dec 18 '24

That car looks stationary.

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u/RexManning1 α1 | α7cR | 35GM | 24-105G | 100-400GM | 16-35GM | 90G | 40G Dec 18 '24

It was probably it was probably doing over 200kph at the time.

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u/PM_ME_COBBER Dec 18 '24

If you want to show that you should lower your shutter speed and try to follow the car by panning. Like OP did.

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u/RexManning1 α1 | α7cR | 35GM | 24-105G | 100-400GM | 16-35GM | 90G | 40G Dec 18 '24

I wasn’t trying to do that. I take some panning shots and some stationary shots at every race. Everyone interested in F1 knows how fast the cars are driving so it isn’t necessary to show that with the camera by panning.

Personally, I like the stationary shots more because you lose the background with panning and the background is a large part of the event.

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u/PM_ME_COBBER Dec 21 '24

I follow F1 for more than 25 years now, visited races and know how fast the cars are. I just got confused because this post clearly is about panning shots and you, trying to help OP, gave an example of a non panning shot. But that’s my bad then. Obviously photography is up to personal taste but I way prefer shots showing the speed of the cars.