its panning, slow shutter speed and track the subject, nice fluid motion dont stop once the pic is taken, keep tracking and IS on 2 or option 2 or off
ask eek for tips, he is really good at panning

Eek is much better than me at panning, I tried 25/30th of a shutter speed since then it's not happening lol. Well maybe if I tried a tripod, guess I will try that next time.

My only tip would be to start out fast and work your way down, for cars I started at 125 I did that for probably 1-2 months, moved to 100 did that for 2-3 events, went to 80, 60, and now I'm at 40-60 depending on the speed of the cars at events. Generally I go for 100 ISO and play around with my F stop to try to keep as much detail as possible. F/7.1-F/13 range on a 70-200 F/2.8

I would love to see it done with horses I'm sure it can be done, the issue I run into is with cars you don't notice so much where I'm not 100% focused if you look closely the nose and the tail of the cars are generally not very sharp.
With cars I really only have one factor to play with as well, with horses you have a rider and the horse that you would need to semi-predict their movements, for me that would be changeling for you I'm sure you've been around it enough to have a good idea what to expect.



This post was edited by Sontdp on Mar 26 2012 08:39am

The motorcycle makes me hard..I looooove it