Originally Posted by
rankin116
. It's not easy getting things sharp while moving a camera at 1/40. Many blurry images.
Practice helps. There are a couple of technique things also.
1) Pan with the subject before and after you press the shutter, so it's a continuous smooth movement, where you press the shutter in the middle, and continue to follow through,
2) flash helps. Shoot in aperature mode, (using the aperature setting and iso to get the right shutter speed) with flash. The camera will expose the background based on the ambient light, and the subject based on the flash. The flash will help freeze the subject, but have virtually no eefect on the background because the flash falls off dramatically with distance. Obviously this works better the closer you can be to the subject, and the more powerful the flash. You may also need to play with the fill flash ratio (flash exposure compensation) to get it right.
3) Turn off image stabilization, or put it in the right mode, if you have it. Early image stabilization didn't work with panning, and will hurt rather than help. More advanced image stabilization has a panning setting that stabilizes vertically, but allows you to pan horizontally.
4) play with shutter speed to get the most pleasing effect. For example 1/60 of a second above would still show ice motion, but the rider would be sharper. Slow it down and you get a more painterly effect.