8 Panning Photography Tips

Panning Photography is picture taking by moving camera unidirectional with direction of object movement that we shoot, so that the object would seem to focusing whereas background and foreground seem blur or out of focus.

Panning photograph taken by pocket camera
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Following 8 practical steps panning photography:
 

• Do not use tripod. Use your hands for native movement of camera.
• Set camera to Shutter Priority mode (S or Tv).
• Set shutter speed between 1/30 to 1/8 second.
• Direct the camera to object (choose colorful background to get amazing blur background before directing your camera).
• Shoot the camera to the object, press shutter button half way for focusing.
• Move your hand as smooth as possible parallel to the object movement.
• If hand movement has the same movement with the object, press release button for exposure.

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• Try.. Try.. And try again to get smoother hand movement.