Gracie (mgstrawn) and I are your hosts for this challenge. I was frustrated by a similar challenge in last year's daily challenges. I practiced and practiced, but without the results I wanted - subject focused, background blurred and with a definite feeling of motion and/or speed. While sitting on Rivernan's dock one early misty morning, "it" happened. A fisherman came flying by in his outboard. All boat pictures were taken in shutter (Tv) mode and took place in a split second.

These are examples of "panning" which are explained in this article from Gracie and demonstrated in the Youtube video. I found them both helpful and hope you will too.

The idea is to convey feelings, images that show or convey the idea of movement. Through the days of the challenge I'll post some different ways of capturing movement and I am looking forward to your posts that show energy in motion. Point and shoot cameras are capable of capturing movement, even if not in the same way.

I will post settings and show the attempts as well as the final images. I can think of many ways to show movement and they weren't all done by panning.

The article:

http://improvephotography.com/8758/panning-photography-ideas/

The Youtube:

http://youtu.be/sXzNtp1shXU