Are you looking for a way to take the coolest photos at your kids’ track meet? The pan-motion photographic effect can make them look like they’re the Flash. This photo was taken with a shutter speed ...

Fast-paced action can be one of the trickier genres of photography to master. You need quick reflexes to autofocus and change settings on the fly, but there’s a huge sense of accomplishment when you ...

We all know the shot: Perfectly framed racecar that’s perfectly framed against a blurred racetrack, sense of speed and motion overwhelming. They’re known in photography as a panning shot—because the ...

Cyclists streak through downtown Lawrence in the Downtown Criterium of the Tour of Lawrence Saturday, July 4, 2009. By using a shutter-speed of 1/20th a second and panning with the biker at center, I ...

The variables we need to assess when panning are the speed of the subject and the shutter speed. No doubt someone has devised some software to compute all this, but really in the field it's not quite ...