I have only one piece of advice to anyone brave enough to try panning shots... take LOTS of them. I was shooting with my 70-200 at planes flying well over 100mph and it is a lot tougher than it looks. I probably got one keeper for every 10 that I shot. My settings were Tv with the shutter at about 1/30th of a second and ISO100.
To black and white or not to black and white? Well I'm not a huge fan of black and white images because I feel that it's overused and done poorly most of the time. In this case, I made an exception.The light just happened to be right, about an hour before sunset to give the cliff rocks some character.
Another photographer near me suggested I use bracketing but I chose to go with my gut for exposure and you can see the results here. Was I wrong? Tell me what you think?
I finally got all of the lighting gear that I need to get started doing my strobist style shooting. I picked up a Canon 580 EXII along with a pocketwizard minitt1 and a flextt5. I took a few shots with them this afternoon and they worked really well. I was about 25 feet away and didn't have misfires. I might have to try it from farther next time.
