project 5: panning with different shutter speeds

This project was a 12 pictures exercise of panning at different speeds. I shot the frames on a motorway bridge in  Pease Potage, Crawley, on shutter priority using a variety of speeds ranging from 1/10sec to 1/1000sec at iso 100. The lens used for this project was the nikkor 18-200mm vr because of the versatility it offers, but at the same time it presents another set of problems namely being slow and the annoying  barrel creeping. At shutter speeds of around 1/60sec i found that the subjects were recorded fairly sharp with the background being blurry. At around 1/1000sec the subjects and background were recorded sharply .  The frame i prefer of the two projects (4 and 5) is a frame on the project 4 shot at 1/10sec. A friend of mine Oz on a bicycle doing a wheelie. as i said on a previous post i like it for the sense of movement because of the slow shutter speed but its not to slow as it retained a reasonable level of sharpness not much. But enough to allow the viewer to see the playful expression on Oz's face. I also like the fact that there are not many distractions on the background and that the subject is centred without being static.
The Camera settings for this project were:


1/10 at f/29.

1/15 at f/20.

1/25 at f/16.

1/30 at f/16.

1/50 at f/11.

1/60 at f/11.

1/80 at f/10.

1/125 at f/11.

1/160 at f/6.3.

1/250 at f/5.

1/500 at f/5.

1/1000 at f/5.

project 4 : shutter speeds

this project consists of 12 pictures of the same subject  at various shutter speeds. I had to use two different bike riders because the first one Celestino was too slow and i couldn't get a blurry subject with a sharp background so i asked oz to give it a try and ride the bike a bit faster, but after one minute he too got tired of doing wheelies and stopped. leaving me with no choice but to use both sets. the objective of this project was to promote shutter speed control and awareness.  I set the sensitivity of my d200 to 400 ISO and switched to shutter priority all of the photos were taken in raw, then adjusted  on photoshop. Nothing fancy just a bit of levels and contrast.
The picture that looks sharp is the one taken at 1/125sec.  My favourite frame is the one with the border taken at 1/10sec, because of oz's sense of movement without blurring is facial expression which shows joy and excitement. with the fact that the background is slightly blur and ads to the sense of  movement. i also like the fact that its not too cluttered with distractions as some of the other frames.
The picture settings are as follows:

1/6sec, f/22

1/8sec, f/22

1/10sec, f/22

1/13sec, f/20

1/15sec, f/20

1/20sec, f/14

1/25sec, f/18

1/30sec, f/18

1/50sec, f/13

1/60sec, f/11

1/80sec, f/11

1/125sec, f/8