This last weekend was the back to the fifties celebration in Grants
Pass. One of the main events is a classic car cruise that runs through
Downtown.
I got down to the cruise after
work and after the sun went down. I thought this would be a good opportunity to
work on a technique called panning.
For this picture I dropped the
Sutter speed of the camera down to about 1/4 of a second and panned the camera
with the subject while the shutter was open. This creates an effect that
we see in camera where the main visual focal point is clear and still without
distortion and the background is dragged out of clear view.
To get everything to work right
takes quite a few tries. There are really only a handful of photographs that
turned out visually interesting from this shoot, but the few that did turn out
as planned were well worth the effort.
