Panning for Gold in Kathmandu

Panning is a simple way to kill an afternoon and make yourself exhausted. The concept is pretty simple: you use a slow shutter speed like 1/30 of a second to separate a moving object from a chaotic background. Hundreds of your shots will be useless. A rare few will be perfection. Those are the ones you show your friends.
00:00 Intro
00:27 Slowly Slowly
01:11 Asan Bazar
02:11 Big Scene Little Lens
03:23 Any Lens Will Do
05:05 Shutter Speed 1/30th
05:36 Just One Winner
06:02 People Panning
07:14 Manual vs Auto Focus
08:06 Square On
09:16 How Much Is In Focus?
09:51 Continuous Burst,
10:25 Exposure Configuration
10:58 24mm vs 35mm
11:44 Background Elements
12:33 Frame Number 2477
13:59 How Bad Is Really Bad?
#Panning #Photography #Kathmandu #Nepal
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[@IronChefShellie]

Something I really need to practice!

[@EwenBell]

Apply it to shooting golf swings!

[@frankenstein77777]

I snagged some good panning images travelling with you in the Xi'an Muslim Quarter in 2008 and at one of the Angor temples in 2011. Yes, lots of wasted shots but luckily a few keepers.

[@EwenBell]

Ya givin away my age here Frank!

[@randomelephant4476]

Great video, thanks for the inspiration! :)

[@EwenBell]

Thanks for stopping by :)

[@StevenLawson]

Really enjoyed this video Ewen and got some very useful tips for a style of shooting I've never really tried - but 2000-plus files to check? That would break my spirit 😂

[@EwenBell]

Thanks for dropping by Steven!
I've been cranking that continuous burst mode on my cameras for quite a while now, so I'm used to the volume it generates. Capture One or Lightroom are both very very good in these situations and make it easy to apply a baseline treatment to all the pics, then flick through and focus on the images that have potential. Overall, not a technique I'd try with film :)