Panning

What: Learning the multiple functions of all the shutter speed effects in the camera.

How: For today's assignment, you will track moving objects through the viewfinder of your camera, and you will use different shutter speeds to capture the action.

Faster shutter speeds will grant clarity in your total image.

Why: Slower shutter speeds, combined with panning, will help you freeze your subject while allowing for some blur in the background.

Too slow of a shutter speed will result in a ghost effect overall (don't be too quick to judge--sometimes happy accidents are pleasing!)

The best way to experience shutter speed and panning is to get out and practice. With a partner, practice the technique called panning, so that you follow your subjects' movement. By panning with slightly slower shutter speeds, you should be able to stop the action of the object while blurring the background. You will most likely begin at shutter speed 1/60.

Please get this "panning" from the handouts folder on the server:

Here is another example:

Once you have finished the handout, take one FINAL panning photo and submit your perfect panning shot as

Assignment via Ms. Snow :D

Here is a selfie that shows the same idea. While keeping the arm extended while spinning in the chair, she achieve the same effect.

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