Exercise 5:Panning with different shutter speeds

This one should be quite a learning curve for me and have to be honest its a skill i have never tried before.Trying to find a suitable subject

The aim of the exercise is to capture an image of a subject moving across the frame and try to pan with the camera , creating a series of images with varying shutter speeds.The images captured are to be technically analysed to see how successful i was at freezing the subject or subject and background. And once that is complete i need to pick my two favourite images one each from exercises 3 and 4 and explain my reasons for this choice.

The 18-200 lens will again be used with the camera hand held and in shutter priority.Thoughts before the exercise are how fast or slow will i be able to go without under or overexposing the image?

My subjects were various vehicles travelling at appx 30 mph ,rather than comment on each individual image my finding are that with a shouter speed of 1/8 second the image was virtually illegible.The vehicles started to sharpen at around 1/250 second with the backgrounds still a little blurry. At 1/500 second the vehicle is very sharp and the background quite sharp, moving up to 1/1000 second the whole image appears frozen .With an image moving at this speed shutter speeds in excess of this never made a great deal of difference in image quality although with faster moving objects i i expect this to be more crucial

Personal favourites

The moving car @ 1/250 second was my choice due to the slight hint that there was movement in the scene , with the car wheels and the background slightly unfocused.

At 1/2 second although the water had a silky look to it i loved the way that there appeared to be streaks or lines in the water when it was running past the large rock.