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Whitewater Photography Tutorial #12: Panning
It's a
cloudy day, you're out on the river and want to get some great
photographs, but you're a casual photographer who is just using a kit
lens on an affordable dSLR camera. You can either try to freeze action
with wide open apertures or high ISO, and deal with either soft images
or noise, or you can pan. A panning shot is an action shot where the
the subject if followed through the action, freezing them while
blurring the background.
Rudy told me to
start take panning shots to expand the variety of my portfolio, and
suggested 1/60th of a second shutter speeds for panning shots. I've
found this to be dead on.
Set your shutter at 1/60th, choose your lowest ISO and adjust your aperture so your histogram comes out correct.
Set the camera to Auto focus-Continuous (AF-C) mode and choose a side
sensor. Once again here we want to remember to keep the subject to the
side of the frame (not the center) and to give them somewhere to go in
the image. In this circumstance Daniel was moving from left to right,
so I chose a sensor on the left. Once he started dropping in I followed
him with my focus on the whole time, and once he was at the lip I
started shooting, following him through the rapid. End result: His face
is in focus because I was panning at the same speed, while everything
else is blurred.
Daniel Brasuel 
Nikon D700, Nikkor 50mm 1.8 @ 1/60 F11 ISO 100
A few things worth noting. The longer the lens, the more
pronounced the blur will be, as it dramatically emphasizes movement.
The longer the lens, the harder it is to get any shot without blur at
all, due to the same problem. If your shooting a 200mm increasing the
shutter speed a slight amount will help, or turn on VR/IS if you have
it, because it's worth noting that this is an area where a VR/IS lens
will help out. On a Nikon VR lenses switch it from "active" to "normal"
if it has that option. This will turn off the VR from reducing panning
blur.
What is the right exposure?
Whitewater Photography Tutorial #3: Getting the right exposure.
Whitewater Photography Tutorial #4: Low Light Action
Whitewater Photography Tutorial #5: Focus
Whitewater Photography Tutorial #6: Basic Lighting
Whitewater Photography Tutorial #7: Composition
Whitewater Photography Tutorial #8: Gear Picks
Whitewater Photography Tutorial #9: Post Processing
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