Panning Technique
A firm favourite with motorsports enthusiasts, the technique of panning conveys all the drama and excitement of a finely-tuned machine at top speed. Panning works when the camera tracks the position of a moving object during exposure.
The panning technique is based on a slower shutter speed and needs to be practiced. Arrange your shooting position so that the moving object passes from one side of your viewfinder frame to the other, and select a shutter speed of 1/15th of a second. Press your shutter just as the moving object appears and immediately follow its path by moving your camera. As the shutter closes, the resulting image will display a sharpish moving object against a very streaky background. The same kind of effect can be applied to the backgrounds of frozen movement photographs using the Motion Blur filter in Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
