Great shot! Panning effect is superlative.

Well done @Juan.

Excellent photo, Juan... Congratulations and thanks for sharing here.

That's a great shot too, Juan, distance does matter indeed.

Hi Peter, yes, Canon 6d. Im in love with low lights, large exposures, panning ...ships are mostly slow so u must to shoot at lower speed to get a pannign effect. This tug passed too close to me, it helps, I think .. and yes, for about 10 pics 8 go to the bin.Look at this of a pilot boat:
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=3391719
Similar exposure. "Speed sensation" is lower than this pic, but she is faster, and far. So I think the distance influences.
Sorry but my english its no good. I hope u understand me.

Just to add, you need to have a servo option in your camera (the 6D has that for sure), so the camera will follow the ship and keep it in focus.

Juan thanks for explanation, 6d means Canon 6D, for those who are not too much into cameras. Shooting this way is rarely possible with ships because they either go too slow or are too far away or both. If you have some options to shoot faster ships, try to master the panning technique first on cars or motorcycles where take some distance from the road and shoot them when they pass. Continuous shooting is imperative, (I guess Juan, that out of all the shots you took only 2 or 3 were pretty good) and you can try by setting a shutter speed of 125 or 100 and then slowly go slower so you can experiment a little.
I posted this one
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2698660

five years ago and you can see the difference with all the other shots of the same tender, which are about the fastest things in the Europoort.

Hi, photo was taken 6d + 17/40 L (not stabilized) 28mm. iso 1000 f4.5 +0,3 1/10seg. No monopod, tripod ... and continuous shooting active. I dont know tug´s speed, but she passed too fast (ok, its a tug ... 10-11 knots posible?) I think flat sea and continuous shooting help me ;) Thanks to all for the comments.
Best regards.
Juan G. Mata.

WONDERFUL SHOT !!

Great setting and shot - Thanks for posting! Regards Marc

Well done, great shot.

Awesome picture Juan !!
Would you mind posting how the photo was taken?
Regards.

Fabulous :)

That is a shot with real action. 1/10 of a second is not easy, but with 28 mm focal length the (hand-held or monopod?) results can be great, as shown here. Juan how fast was the tug going?

Wonderful panning shot, congratulations amigo Juan

Very good!

Wonderful, fantastic, etc.

WOW what a picture, Excellent :)