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When the City Blurs By

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Motion blur panning shot of a blue Volkswagen New Beetle driving through a city at night, with a blurred Christmas tree light display and warm glowing shopfronts in the background.
Long exposure panning photograph of a dark blue Tesla driving at night with colourful light trails streaking across the background in cyan, red, orange and yellow, creating a sense of speed and motion.
Panning photograph of an Irish HSE ambulance speeding through the city at night, showing yellow and blue Battenberg markings and text reading OTHARCHARR ÉIGEANDÁLA and HSE, with streaked urban lights in the background.
Night-time panning shot of a dark red SUV driving through a city street, with motion-blurred neon signs and colourful urban lights creating horizontal streaks in the background.
Motion blur photograph of a white hatchback car driving at night, captured using panning technique with vibrant bokeh and light trails from city signs and shopfronts blurred in the background.
Motion blur panning shot of a blue Volkswagen New Beetle driving through a city at night, with a blurred Christmas tree light display and warm glowing shopfronts in the background.

Panning photos is a nice way to burn through some photos and sometimes a photo or two will look half decent. It’s very hit-and-miss. You have to start panning your camera with the car and then hit the shutter while panning, hoping that you’re staying on your subject. A fun little exercise. 🙂

These images were shot on Grand Parade in Cork on a cold December evening when I was out with Blarney Photography Club a few weeks ago.

I created a new WordPress plugin. This one shows the archives on this blog as a (large) thumbnail gallery that will show each image in a lightbox. I had the idea of using the lightbox WordPress ships with to show gallery images, and it worked out!

See it in action in the street photography archives. Grab your own copy from https://github.com/donnchawp/archive-lightbox-gallery by downloading the source and uploading it to your WordPress site in wp-content/plugins/archive-lightbox-gallery/.


Apertureƒ/3.5
CameraILCE-7RM5
Focal length26mm
ISO100
Shutter speed1/2.5s

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7 responses to “When the City Blurs By”

  1. Dadbod AntiFa avatar
    Dadbod AntiFa

    @donncha Those are great photos.

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  2. mark 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 avatar
    mark 🇮🇪 🇪🇺

    @donncha 👍👍

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    1. Paolo Belcastro avatar
      Paolo Belcastro

      Wow! That blue Beetle photo is really excellent!

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  3. Squozen 🇪🇺 avatar
    Squozen 🇪🇺

    @donncha One of my Canon zoom lenses has a stabilising switch exactly for this kind of shot. Looks incredible.

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  4. Donncha Ó Caoimh avatar
    Donncha Ó Caoimh

    @Squozen it's a lot of fun. Does that image stabilizing make it easier to get good shots?

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  5. Squozen 🇪🇺 avatar
    Squozen 🇪🇺

    @donncha it does. It stops stabilising the horizontal and only stabilises vertical movement. You just have to track the moving car reasonably well and the stabilisation does the rest. I need to go and take some shots with it because I don’t have any to show you.

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  6. simplysaru avatar
    simplysaru

    Thanks for posting this and sharing the settings as well. This post has rekindled my interest to try panning one of these days.

    Reply

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