F-Stop: f/22.0
Shutter Speed: 1/30
ISO: 800
This photo is a horizontal pan shot of one of my brothers on his bike. The basis of a pan shot is to use a longer shutter speed and match your camera with the movement of your subject, thus blurring the background and keeping the subject in focus. He rode around the house multiple times and zoomed around the corner so I could get a shot I was satisfied with. Pan shots require many more takes than normal shots, though in this case I had the luxury of repeated sustained action. I sat down on the ground and go relatively low so the angle of the pan was always looking up or at least even with my subject.
The effect created by the pan shot is really cool in this picture. The haze of vibrant fall colors, enhanced by editing in camera raw, adds a colorfully exciting representation of the movement. The slight blur on the wheels of the bike and on my brothers feet creates another layer of movement. This leaves just the body of both the bike and my brother in focus. I also cropped the photo to excluded extremely bright areas on the left and to place my brother in the composition in a way that complimented the rule of thirds better.
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