4 TIPS AND TRICKS ON HOW TO TAKE BETTER PANNING PHOTOS

I know I've been struggling a lot with getting sharp panning shots when I first started #photography but there are some tricks that might help some people so here we go!

1. Shoot as fast as you can! While it might be obvious for some, it is important to leverage the maximum speed of your cam, so keep the frames per second (fps on some cams) on the highest setting.
   

2. Don't let your shutter speed fall below 1/20 or 1/15 MAX! You'll get plenty of that beautiful blur with 1/25 or even 1/30! The faster your object moves the higher you can keep it, and thus make your work much easier than trying to pull off the impossible! so anything between 1/20 and 1/30 is perfectly fine!
   

3. This trick made the biggest difference for me: Shoot in Manual Focus ONLY! Estimate the distance between you and your subject, fix your focus to that distance, and shoot. Continuous auto-focus may also work if your camera has great AF performance, but even for super fast cams, it's easier to just stay in MF. The time your camera takes to focus on your gast moving subject, makes you miss the shot.
   

4. Use your fastest lens, meaning the lens with the lowest f/-Stop: This prevents you from having to bump up your ISO in dark conditions too much and get lots of grain. THOUGH: If you're trying to shoot during the day, with lots of light available, keep your f/-Stop as high as you can, meaning anywhere between f/4 and f/8 so that there's some buffer in case you missed #focus or didn't estimate properly the distance between you and your subject.

   SOOOOO...When shooting panning shots, always keep in mind: 1. Fastest Shoot Mode/Framerate 2. Shutter speed not below 1/15, preferably between 1/20 and 1/30. 3. ALWAYS stay in MF, and estimate the distance. 4. For daytime, keep the f-stop as high as you can without influencing other settings. In nighttime obviously keep it as low as your ISO allows you to. For anyone who actually went through this, and LEARNT something: Give me your opinions on whether or mot I should make a video with some examples on how to apply this, I'd love to see whether there's demand for that or not!

Thank you for reading, love you — DAMIR