Stewart Bywater
Peterborough road race
Posted by Stewart Bywater (Peterborough, United Kingdom) on 9 July 2009 in Sport & Recreation and Portfolio.
Another from the tour.
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Curly from South Shields, United Kingdom
Terrific movement in this frame, you will have to tell us how you achieved this result.
4 Sep 2009 4:38pm
@Curly: Thanks Curly. There was no Photoshop here (apart from resizing and sharpening). It's all to do with panning. You need the shutter speed to be a bit slower than it would to catch a sharp shot with no movement (I favor around 1/60sec for fairly slow stuff like bicycles). Prefocus on a spot on the road, and then when your subject reaches it, release the shutter, following their movement with the lens for the duration of the shot. You need to match their movement exactly to keep them sharp. Thanks again for your interest! Stewart
luwi from Innsbruck, Austria
great, the sharpness ist exactly on the three bikers on the left, I like the composition very much.
6 Sep 2009 8:45am
Canon EOS 10D
1/60 second
F/4.5
ISO 100
17 mm
bicycle
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peterborough
england
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fast
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