{"id":19725,"date":"2017-11-09T05:35:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T10:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19725"},"modified":"2017-11-09T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:12:09","slug":"another-septa-pcc-pan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/another-septa-pcc-pan\/","title":{"rendered":"Another SEPTA PCC Pan."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s dusk and too dark for a conventional photograph without boosting the ISO to high levels.<\/p>\n

So, I opt for a panned image, where I use a comparatively slow shutter speed and move the camera to follow the motion of the subject.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve found that it helps to pick a point on the vehicle and stay with it.<\/p>\n

It also helps to begin panning well before the shutter is released and continue to pan without changing your overall motion after the picture has been made.<\/p>\n

This last part is crucial. Many pans are ruined when the photographer stops panning (or slows) at the very moment the shutter is released, which unfortunately can be a natural inclination that must be overcome with practice.<\/p>\n

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I exposed this pan-image of a SEPTA Route 15 PCC car on Girard Avenue on November 5, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Screen shot showing Lumix LX7 EXIF data including shutter speed, ISO and f-stop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It\u2019s dusk and too dark for a conventional photograph without boosting the ISO to high levels. So, I opt for a panned image, where I use a comparatively slow shutter speed and move the camera to follow the motion of the subject. I\u2019ve found that it helps to pick a point on the vehicle and … Continue reading Another SEPTA PCC Pan.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[4419,1031,1392,590,49,2403],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-07-at-12.25.36-PM.png?fit=2560%2C1600","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-589","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19730,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions\/19730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}