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<blockquote data-quote="Needa" data-source="post: 824745" data-attributes="member: 37799">Panning in the simplest terms is following your subject with the camera. While doing so you should be using good shooting posture and arm position. Panning allows the background to blur while helping keep the subject in focus. In a simple scenario you are positioned halfway between the starting point and end point perpendicular to the line of travel, as the subject travels the path and you follow the subject the distance to the camera changes so you need to constantly refocus. Now on a field with subject zigging and zagging the need to refocus is constant. This bring me to BBF (back button focus) which is a method of separating the focus function from the shutter button. This allow you to focus on the action and only use the shutter button when you want to take the picture. This can be accomplished also with a half press of the shutter button, myself if find the difficult with action shots. BBF is something to keep in mind if you would like try it down the road, some love it, some hate it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Needa, post: 824745, member: 37799"] Panning in the simplest terms is following your subject with the camera. While doing so you should be using good shooting posture and arm position. Panning allows the background to blur while helping keep the subject in focus. In a simple scenario you are positioned halfway between the starting point and end point perpendicular to the line of travel, as the subject travels the path and you follow the subject the distance to the camera changes so you need to constantly refocus. Now on a field with subject zigging and zagging the need to refocus is constant. This bring me to BBF (back button focus) which is a method of separating the focus function from the shutter button. This allow you to focus on the action and only use the shutter button when you want to take the picture. This can be accomplished also with a half press of the shutter button, myself if find the difficult with action shots. BBF is something to keep in mind if you would like try it down the road, some love it, some hate it. [/QUOTE]

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