Karl Witt wrote: JWilsonphoto wrote:
That’s the age old question Karl. The guys here are constantly honing their panning skills and slow shutter speed techniques. In a perfect world 1/80th of a second will get you a full disc, regardless of the power setting that your subject is using. If an Extra is really wound up and coming downhill you might be able to get a full disc at 1/100th. Some practice will get you familiar with what it looks like as you shoot faster shutterspeeds. You can get some motion up through 1/500th but it doesn’t convey speed like the slower ones.
Panning is another thing entirely. Todays faster buffers reall help in that quest. Depending upon the lens you are using and the compression, 1/125th can begin to get you a good motion feel. Once again, if you can get in sync, 1/80th and slower can really get you some beautiful effects. The trick to panning is getting in perfect sync with your subject as it flies by. The technique is challenging because you can be dead on one day and way off the next, it’s a constant quest.
Thanks Jim for the suggested shutter speeds. I have quite a ways to go to get there but will get more practice in soon. Some year soon I want to get to Oshkosh, I better have my act together then I better stop shooting wildlife birds at my fast shutter speeds and work on my panning and drag the shutter speeds
Karl
I always admire the disk motion Jim, Glen Watson and others post here. Jim and Ray gave the best advice a couple posts back, but doing it in really life is a different story. I basically gave up trying unless the prop. planes are just taxing. My panning skill sucks. Last month I bought a variable ND filter per Jim's recommendation to reduce the amount of light so I can use slower shutter speed. I got a couple decent shots with prop. motion but only one or two of them showed the full disk. It's a work-in-progress but today's camera's high frame rate per second does increase the odds of getting at least one or two sharp pictures at slow shutter speed.
J-A, some terrific F-16 shots! Interesting that in one of them the smoke wasn't coming out from the tail. Glad you are back in action!
Jun 21, 2022 at 04:07 AM
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I better stop shooting wildlife birds at my fast shutter speeds and work on my panning and drag the shutter speeds
