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PANNING
This is a classic panning shot, but very tricky
to follow neatly when handholding—especially
as I was on a similar vessel going the other way.
Hold the panning arm on the tripod head,
not the camera, and use the front of the
lens as a reference to track steadily
across the scene.
With moving subjects, the speed
and direction of panning is dictated by
the need to keep the subject in frame.
Accurate tracking of fast-moving
subjects is very challenging and takes
a lot of practice.
› Zooming
The zoom is another fundamental
technique. Moving from a wide view to
a tighter one is called zooming in, the
converse zooming out. Again, a little
forethought makes all the difference to
using the zoom effectively; consider the
framing of the shot at both start and finish.
If you’re zooming in to a specific subject,
double-check it’s central in the frame.
No current lenses for the D5300 are
designed specifically for shooting
movies—this is most obvious in relation to
zooming. Firstly, none of them have such a
wide zoom range as video camera lenses.
More seriously, it’s hard to achieve a really
smooth, even-paced zoom action. Practice
does help, and firmly mounting the
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