Making a panning photo is not rocket science but requires a certain amount of practice and patience! At the end of the day in August, I was walking downtown Montreal. I went up to Square-Victoria Street where I noticed that there was a dedicated bike path. I went up the street near Viger and observed the flow of cyclists…
That’s when I missed THE picture!
I had just arrived at my observation point and noticed a rather exuberant cyclist who spoke loudly and did not seem to care about car traffic. He rode randomly across the street, cutting vehicles that were coming down. I did not have time to choose my camera settings but I still shot some pictures. The one that should have been “winning” is when he abruptly cut off the road of an oncoming car that blare it’s horn him, while the cyclist raised his hand to signal the traffic to let him pass … Unfortunately, none of the pictures were sharp enough.
I moved back to the bike path and set up my camera with a fairly large depth of field and reduced my shutter speed (f/6.3 and 1/30).
That’s how I got my consolation prize!
