For this panning challenge I made my way down to the highway overpass near my house to photograph cars. This allowed me to have ample opportunity to try the panning technique with the amount of cars, but I only had enough time to take 1 - 2 pictures per car. To my utter disappointment, I missed the chance to shoot a an old, classic car that had passed by. I found that most of my photos had only one half of the car frozen for some reason. The three pictures selected I consider to be most of my successes, with the best one being the first one with the red car. Although, what I did find with shooting on the highway was that many of my pictures looked identical aside from a different car in the centre, and as my sister commented it "looked like I was some sort of strange car enthusiast". This is also partially due to most of the cars being the same colours, with the typical whites, silvers, blacks, and the occasional blue or red. Leading me to be very proud and excited over successfully capturing the third picture of the yellow motorcycle. In doing this again, I would like to try the technique with something other than cars, and preferably be at a better vantage point: being above the highway makes the cars seem a little to far away, but just shooting on the sidewalk was a little too close (e.g. pic 1 vs. pic 2.). However this could be solved with a different lens, like a zoom/telephoto lens for the highway or a wide angle for the sidewalk (as I was only using the standard kit lens). In terms of different subjects, I would just have to find somewhere else with a similar volume of moving objects, like maybe Stanley Park in the summer for cyclists, or a cross-country/sports event might work. In general, it could also be a good technique to remember for capturing moving animals (pets or otherwise). I do really like this technique, because it brings focus to just the moving object, unlike just using a fast shutter speed.
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