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Calcium
Excellent shots. Cropping's not a bad thing, although if you want to enlarge the images then you'll want as big an original image as possible... Using the program settings is also not a bad thing, but as mentioned they will "let you down" from time to time.. As mentioned by someone else Tv and Av (sometimes Tp and Ap) are well worth exploring as a start - depending on which part you wish to control and which part you want the camera to work out for you..
As also mentioned it's a good idea to note down the settings that you've used for a shot - it gives you a reference point when things go right and when things go wrong!!
For panning, I can recommend going to Santa Pod - easy way to practice!! You can get quite close, plus you pretty much know where the cars/bikes are going to go!! I'll try and dig out some shots and post later on (maybe tomorrow)...
As people have mentioned - take quite a few shots (you may just capture that 'something') and try out different things, film, shutter speed, aperture settings, manual focus, panning.. It's not an easy 'art' to get right, but when 1/2 photos go right (really right!) then it makes the whole effort worth it, plus you just want to get back out there again. Plus it's not cheap either!! Try different developers and don't be afraid to question problems with photos - sometimes the photo produced isn't the best result from the neg - compare the two and you'll see that a bit of cropping goes on in the developers....
As an aside if someone wanted to either get a Press Pass or get photos published what are the best/recommended routes that people know of / can give advice on?
EPS
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