I would love to share my technique on rolling shots
these are a few of my best work of rolling shots
How do I achieve those pictures? its very simple
Settings
- I use shutter priority mode (Tv in Canon) so that I can alter my shutter speed according to the speed of the car. Besides, I dont need to car much about aperture because the background will be blurred by movements anyway.
- All above pictures are taken in broad daylight. Which allow me to use ISO100 for all the shots to minimize noise.
- The shutter speed I use mostly lies around 1/60s to 1/100s depending on the speed of the car.
Technique
- In order to get rolling shot done, you need 2 vehicle, one subject car, and one camera car.
- Make sure you choose to do it in a less-traffic road. Its because you dont want to clutter your background + safety reason
- Some photographer prefer to just stay in the car and hold their camera outside the window and get the shots. not for me. I usually will hang 50% of myself out of the window to get extreme angle like this one
- If you choose to do it like me, be very careful and make sure your camera is secured to your hand. (dont blame me if anything happen. lol)
- Speed of the subject car and speed of the camera car MUST be the same. if subject car is going 80km/h, the camera car must be doing 80km/h too. maybe +/- 5km/h.
*REMEMBER* the higher the speed of the car, the higher shutter speed you can use. The equation I always use is
Shutter speed = 1/speed of the car
- if the car is going 80km/h, you can go as low as 1/80s
- if the car is going 100km/h, you can go as low as 1/100s
I hope this technique will help you get your desired pictures