Dragging Cyclists in Camera

Posted by Philip in Photo Technique

This is kind of a photo recipe.  We had a cycle race today in town.  The streets were closed for several races through town.  There were a lot of cameras out and most of them where phone cameras.  Don’t get me wrong, you can get some pretty amazing photos with a phone, but one thing you can’t do at the moment is to go into shutter priority mode and drag your shutter.  Most all of my photos were a taken with the ISO set to 100, and the shutter set to 1/20th.  Since it was shutter priority, the aperture would fluctuate between f/4.5 and f/8.  As the sun continued to go down I’d boost the ISO to ensure the aperture wouldn’t stay at f/3.5.

In order to get this type of image you have to pan with your subject while in continuous shooting mode..  This is really easy to do, but expect to have a lot of bad blurry photos.  For me only about 5% were in focus but out of the total with only about 2% were any good.  Here are a few select images that I thought came out better than the rest.  Which one is your favorite?

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