From the course: Street Photography: The City at Night

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Panning with a moving subject

Panning with a moving subject

From the course: Street Photography: The City at Night

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Panning with a moving subject

(Rapid camera clicks) - Okay, we're out at night, and I thought I would try do to a few panning shots. (Camera clicks) What I like about the panned picture is it creates the illusion of movement, it creates the illusion of speed and excitement, and New York City, I mean, it's all about that, so I was really kind of trying for a taxi in New York City, iconic cab, might as well pan one of those, and every fourth car is a taxi, so you don't have to wait long to find one. The key with panning, there's two things, you have to have the right shutter speed, and you have to have kind of a smooth motion. So, generally, it's a numbers game. It's hard to know; depending how fast the taxi's going, you can still pan at a faster shutter speed, generally anywhere from a quarter of a second to maybe 1/125th of a second for really fast, crazy taxi drivers, will work. So you just have to really kind of practice. For me, in order to get a smooth pan, if you have a VR lens that stabilizes your pan and…

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