Exercise - Panning with different shutter speeds

In this exercise we are asked to take a number of photos using different shutter speeds whilst panning on the chosen object.
The scene is the roadside and the subject is cars. The camera is set to S (shutter priority) and the initial shutter speed is set to 1/4000sec then reduced uniformly to 1/15sec. The results are as follows:

1/4000sec

1/3000sec

1/2000sec

1/1200sec

1/800sec

1/500sec

1/320sec

1/200sec

1/125sec

1/80sec

1/60sec

1/50sec

1/25sec

1/15sec

At this shutter speed the car, background and foreground are all sharp with no evidence of movement. This would be a useful setting for capturing a bee in flight or similar.












Still no movement, everything appears static.













And no movement in this photo also.













Still static.













At last! The foreground is clearly showing signs of motion blur whilst the van is starting to show a little movement on the wheels.











The motion blur is clearly more visible in the background as well as the foreground on this shot. The car is still sharp except the wheels.











The car is starting to look a little less sharp in this one.












Starting to get a real sense of speed now. The motion blur is starting to become a lot more pronounced on the car and the foreground and background are much more out of focus.








This is my favourite of this exercise. There is still a sharpness about the car so you can see exactly what it is yet there is also has enough blur to show that it's moving. The really out of focus for and background really compliment the scene. I will take note of this setting and use it in the future.









Maybe starting to get too much motion blur in the fore and background for my liking on this one.











Really hated this photo until I zoomed in on the wheels. I found the shape it made to be almost a face.











This didn't come out too bad! I suspect that the very dark colour of the van against the over exposed background probably has something to do with it being quite easy to look at.










Here we have reached the stage where the fore/background have become just a streaking blur.










Too much motion blur and over exposed, this is not a very nice photo to look at. Would've benefited from a natural density filter.