| In photography, there are many ways to create | | | | objects moving much faster or much slower you |
| different effects in taking pictures. Although the | | | | will need to adjust the shutter speed. Experiment |
| beginner may not realize it, your camera can | | | | and find out what works the best. A slower |
| create many visually amazing effects without | | | | shutter speed will make the background much |
| even using any filters! One such effect is the | | | | more out of focus and will need to be more |
| photographic pan. This effect is used for objects | | | | precisely executed. |
| that are in motion and moving in a straight line. | | | | Using a tripod when you are performing a |
| The result of a photo that uses the pan technique | | | | photographic pan will ensure that the camera |
| is a subject that is in focus and visible while the | | | | stays leveled vertically. Having the camera move |
| background is blurred and has streaks of | | | | horizontally is what makes the pan work. Having |
| blurriness showing motion. | | | | the camera move vertically will create blur |
| Pan photos are created by panning the camera! | | | | vertically and will make the picture not work. |
| Simple right? Yes! But it's not that simple. To | | | | Unless you have a very leveled hand then use a |
| become really good at pan photos you must | | | | tripod! |
| practice it thoroughly and get used to it. Your first | | | | The best setting to use when taking a pan photo |
| pan photographs may not look the way you | | | | is shutter priority. That will let you set the shutter |
| image them to look. However, after practicing for | | | | speed you want to use. You don't have to worry |
| some time, your pan photos will look much better. | | | | about setting the aperture as it will be automatic |
| To create a pan photo you must move the | | | | for you. |
| camera along the same path that the object that | | | | The reason that pan photographs are made is |
| is moving is going on. You must have a moving | | | | very interesting. The camera follows the object in |
| object. The object could be walking very slow or | | | | motion at the same speed. This makes the |
| be traveling at hundreds of miles per hour. Simply | | | | camera see an object and the object seems not |
| follow the object in a "pan" camera movement. | | | | to be moving. The background, however, is |
| A camera pan is simply moving the camera from | | | | moving, and that is what gets blurred. Following |
| left to right or right to left. If you have a tripod it | | | | the subject perfectly will make the camera think |
| is simply rotating the camera left or right. | | | | that it is not moving and the subject is not |
| The next important thing you must do for a pan | | | | moving but the background is moving. It's like the |
| is set the shutter speed. What makes the subject | | | | way the earth works. We don't think that we're |
| in focus and the object out of focus is the | | | | moving but we think that the sun is moving |
| extremely slow shutter speed time that will be | | | | because it's in one spot during the day and a |
| used. A good shutter speed for running or fast | | | | different spot at night. It's all perception. |
| walking would be 1/30 seconds. If you're shooting | | | | |