When photographing rapidly moving vehicles, the practice of using a high shutter speed goes right out the window. Sure, you freeze the action, but you also freeze everything else, including the rapidly rotating wheels and tires. The image you end up with looks like you took a picture of a parked vehicle. The solution is to use a slow shutter speed and pan with the subject.
- Switch to shutter priority mode.
- Choose a slow shutter speed of 1/60 second.
- Pre-focus the camera on a subject that is equidistant to the point at which you will take the picture.
- When the vehicle comes into view, center it in your view finder and begin panning the camera with the vehicle as outlined previously.
Press the shutter button fully when the vehicle reaches the desired position. Remember to continue panning after your press the shutter button. An image taken using this technique is shown next.
