Tips for photographing moving cars?

My Girlfriend is a photography major and she has an internship for some news paper. Her other job is just working customer service and she has to take some photos right after work and asked me to google some tips for her since she doesn't have a smart phone. She's mostly interested in the settings.

She has Nikon DSLR 5000 and she needs to get some good shots of some moving vehicles. If you could give me some help in laymens in terms, that'd be helpful, because i personally know nothing about photography.

Try panning, which is basically moving the camera along a horizontal plane while taking the photo.
Set the camera to shutter priority and use a shutter speed somewhere around 1/15 to 1/30. Pretend you are trying to shoot the car and keep your camera pointed at it as it moves by and take multiple photos. Keep practicing. Rinse. Repeat.

Good luck.

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You have three options. One is to shoot a fast exposure and stop motion. Just like the name implies, shoot at 1/250 or faster and freeze the cars.

The next option is to use a tripod and shoot a long exposure, and this can be anything from 1/10 of a second to as long as you like. If the tripod is steady, the background will be still but the cars will be blurred. If you have a powerful strobe, you can also do second curtain flash (look in the owner's manual) and there will be a trailing blur of the car with a good stop motion of the car at the end when the strobe fired.

Finally, she can pan. This is where you follow the car with your camera, so the car is steady and the background is moving. She will want to shoot at 1/15 or 1/30 or so, and it takes practice. You follow the car in the lens keeping it steady in one spot. Part way through the follow, you hit the shutter release. Your viewfinder will go black, but you keep the same steady follow motion.