Hey all.
Bit of background. I was into photography some 7 years ago and really jumped in with both feet. Sadly a relationship I was in ended and she robbed me of all my gear (formally shot with a canon 30D, 70-200 2.8 L, 24-70l, 50 1.4 and a few other nice pieces of glass) All was lost and I did not have the money to get my gear back so I stopped shooting.
As of about 2 years ago I dated and now engaged to my current lady....she happened to have a Nikon D40X that I took a shinning to. I got bit again and could not put the camera down.
I spent some time behind the lens of that.....thing. I decided to take it a bit more serious and grab me a new Canon (T4i, nothing special but a Canon, feels like home).
Last weekend I got a chance to shoot a local drift event with it and I was not overly pleased with the results so that is why I come to you all. I need some advice from more experienced shooters.
I want to get some better moving/rolling/panning shots. The types of shots where the subject is crisp yet you develop that great motion blur behind.
I shot most of the event on shutter priority, running between 80-160 of a second to get that motion blur in the background and still have the car crisp. I find that this works well when I am in a car rolling next to the subject but I was not pleased with the results at a stationary spot.
From those out there that do this kind of shooting, what would you settings be, how do you like to shoot to achieve this look?
Here are a couple shots from the event for reference.
As you can see the subject is decently sharp, but not enough. Perhaps I should have shot in manual with a smaller aperture (perhaps F8 or above to get a wider depth of field)?