Panning the Marathon
I was at the Twin Cities Marathon today with a bunch of family ... in fact, we tailed my brother-in-law along the whole course. We met him at the first five-mile marker and every subsequent five miles after that. It's a fun little hopping game with a bunch of family in the van squeezing through the narrow double-parked streets of south Minneapolis. It was a beautiful day ... hot, and we had a great time.
I spent the day with my D70s and the 18-70mm kit lens. I really like this lens. I think it's almost an insult to call it a kit lens. This lens is very sharp, focuses fast, is light weight and looks cool, too.
Besides the obligatory pictures of the pit crew goofing around, I had the opportunity to try some panning with my camera and show some motion with the subject. I was shooting in aperture priority so I kept the f/stop high around f/22. This meant that the shutter was hovering around 1/15th to 1/30th of a second using ISO 200. I kept the focal length of the zoom at about 50mm. That gave me nice distance between me and the subject as I panned perpendicular to the street.
Here are some of the results ...
In the next couple of months I'd like to touch base on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I've been using it for almost a year now and have some things to say about how it has helped me. I'd like to find out what is hootnik on readers are using. Let me know. I'm not interested in starting big arguments just gather information and see what people think. Thanks all.
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Nice panning effort especially on the first shot.
On the subject of software I use a combination of Nikon Capture NX which is great for RAW stuff and Photoshop to touch up blemishes etc.
Current camera D70.
Hey Welchie ... welcome! Glad you liked the panning shots. They were a lot of fun do and the technique seems to add a lot of emotion to the images. Thanks for leaving a comment about your processing software. I'm curious as to how others store, maintain and organize image files. More on that later as I hope to get a number of comments to reference as I get ready to start blogging about my experiences with Lightroom. Cheers!
I think I'm close to what you are using Deke; Lightroom for most of my photos and Photoshop when needed. I have been looking at Capture NX and it is interesting but not close to the Lightroom capabilities for managing the photos. My dSLR is a Nikon D70 and Ialso have two Canon point and shots.
Ah, forgot...
The plug-in for uploading photos directly from LR to Flickr is just awesome, and makes LR even better. See this post on my blog: http://orbratt.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-heck.html)for further info about the tool.
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