Helicopter - How Do You Get Motion Blur On The Rotors?

[snoop69]

A heli was hovering outside just now so I grabbed me cam, twiddled with the
dials & grabbed a few.

I was trying to get motion blur on the rotors but couldnt find a setting before
it left.

These are a few of what I got & they have been heavliy cropped.

Very OOF but it was good timimg lol

 

[wegotitugetit]

slow the shutter speed down is the best way you need to be about 150 - 250 th of a second

or withing the boundarys normally

no 1 would of been a corker if it was in focus with a little blur

 

[PsiFox]

Yup you used 1/1600. Slow it way down and pan smoothly and you are sorted.

 

[Phillip Mac]

I would say a lot lower than that down to a 60th depending what helic and what speed.

 

[snoop69]

Yup you used 1/1600. Slow it way down and pan smoothly and you are sorted.

Thats was my start point & I did slow it down quite a bit but then the pics
got to dark.

Wish id had more time

 

[PsiFox]

Thats was my start point & I did slow it down quite a bit but then the pics
got to dark.

Wish id had more time

Looked at later and down to 1/400 but that is still too quick.

Were you shooting manually because you would have to allow for the brightness of thesky in the exposure?

Also you could have increased the iso from 100 to something higher.

 

[Dangermouse]

This is achievable at 1/160 if you have steady hands

The exif is intact so you can get a rough idea of the settings needed

 

[FlyTVR]

Simple - just ask the pilot to auto rotate ;-)

 

[snoop69]

slow the shutter speed down is the best way you need to be about 150 - 250 th of a second

or withing the boundarys normally

no 1 would of been a corker if it was in focus with a little blur

I rushed that one (not my normal subject) & im gutted its oof

Yup you used 1/1600. Slow it way down and pan smoothly and you are sorted.

I did manage to get down to around 1/400 but it had gone before I got any
slower.

Also, the pics were getting blown & not darker as I previously said.

This is achievable at 1/160 if you have steady hands

Will start at that speed if I get the chance again

Simple - just ask the pilot to auto rotate ;-)

 

[Rob_W]

I'm still learning it all but i did manage shots like this.

1/125 sec at 330mm but the lens did have Vr..

 

[ohmsie]

Practice makes perfect, i spent all day at the helecopter school in shawbury just trying different settings

 

[yoby]

Pretty much what everyone else has said, a slower shutter speed will do the trick - This one from a trip to Cornwall was shot handheld as below. very opportunistic in that it just appeared from nowhere !!

Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 100

 

[Little John]

I got my first chance to take some shots of a helicopter the other day, not great but I was playing with the shutter speeds a bit. I sort of had a captive audience as this one hung around for an hour and did a few flybys on its way in and on its way out.

1/100 f/2.8 at 70mm

1/320 f/2.8 at 75mm

 

[Ady Williams]

Not a helicopter, but a similar principle.

Taken at 1/35th sec.