{"id":1418,"date":"2013-02-19T07:42:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T12:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2013-02-19T18:13:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T23:13:56","slug":"more-secrets-on-pan-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/more-secrets-on-pan-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"More Secrets on Pan Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Dublin LUAS tram hums along Benburb Street heading toward Heuston Station. The Easter-like colors on the tram make for a cool comparison with those in the background on the Museum of Decorative Arts & History in the old Collins Barracks. Canon 7D with 40mm pancake lens. ISO 200 f18 at 1\/60th second. (Full frame without cropping or post processing adjustment except scaling for internet viewing.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Practice panning. I\u2019ve found this increases the ratio of success. Trams are good subjects for practicing. They come by a frequently and at regular intervals. They operate in urban environments with interesting backgrounds. If one set of pans isn\u2019t satisfactory, no problem, there\u2019ll be another tram along shortly. Also, trams tend to be double-ended, allowing opportunities for panning coming and going.<\/p>\n

Dublin is blessed with a modern tram system. The LUAS<\/a> is well suited (and aptly named\u2014 translated from the Irish roughly means \u2018speed\u2019) for panning. LUAS Citadis<\/a> trams built are by Alstom<\/a>, and are a standard European model. I find these reasonably photogenic, so far as trams go and they glide along smoothly. Over the years I\u2019ve made a variety of LUAS pans. I exposed this pair of tram pans yesterday afternoon (February 18, 2013) along Dublin\u2019s Benburb Street using my Canon 7D<\/a> fitted with 40mm Pancake lens<\/a> (which as result of the 7D\u2019s smaller sensor size provides a 35mm film camera equivalent of about 60mm lens)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a few tips for making clean pan photos:<\/p>\n

1) Use a 50mm lens or short telephoto. (Making pan photos with wide-angles and long telephotos is much more difficult)<\/p>\n

2) Manually select a shutter speed between 1\/15th<\/sup> and 1\/60th<\/sup> of a second. (the longer the shutter is open, the greater the effect of blurring, but the harder it is to obtain a clean pan).<\/p>\n

3) Make a series of experimental photos to practice the panning motion.<\/p>\n

4) Pan by pivoting the entire body.<\/p>\n

5) Pick a point in the frame to line up with the subject; try to hold the subject to that point during the entire pan.<\/p>\n

6) Begin panning well before the subject is photographed and plan to continue panning until well after the shutter is released. Don\u2019t stop suddenly.<\/p>\n

7) If using an SLR\/DSLR, plan on making a single frame and not a series of motor drive exposures. (The mirror flapping up and down is distracting and may simply result in a series of badly blurred images instead of a single sharp one).<\/p>\n

8) Pay careful attention to the background and how it relates to your subject.<\/p>\n

9) Repeat steps 1 to 8 as often as is practicable.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll divulge a few more panning tricks in a later post.<\/p>\n

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A LUAS Tram passes the Millennium Bar on Benburb Street. This was the location of the well-publicized tram crash on September 10, 2012, that I featured in a post on that day. See: LUAS Tram Crash on Benburb, Street Dublin.<\/a>
Canon 7D with 40mm pancake lens. ISO 100 f18 at 1\/15th second. (Full frame without cropping or post processing adjustment except scaling for internet viewing.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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