I’m not offering a western workshop in 2011, but it will be back on my calendar in 2012. You can see all of my photography workshops for 2011…HERE.

You can see all of the images and order my western photography prints…HERE.

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You can see on my map the location for the workshop, but this is on private property so please don’t try this yourself. If you want images like these you’ll just have to join me next year.

The idea is to slow your shutter speed down quite a bit (1/60th or so) and then to pan with a moving subject. The trick is that you have to move the camera at the exact pace as the subject. That’s the easy part. You also have to get part of the subject in focus, preferably the head and at least the eye. Here’s the scenario, you have to be able to hold the camera steady, lock the autofocus where you want and pan with something that is moving fast. Not so simple!

When it works 1 out of every 50 times you try the resulting images can be very dramatic. Here are a few examples from my recent western horse roundup photography workshop. There is a fair amount of subjectivity in this photographic art form and some of these are more successful than others. The technique works on anything that is moving quickly, cars, boats, birds, athletes etc. So give it a try and let me know how it works out for you.

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The western workshop and the cowboys and cowgirls that we photographed were in California. The map below will show you the location. It is on private property.