Using slow shutter speeds in combination with panning the action is a great way to imply movement in a still photograph. This has to be done in muted light or with an overcast sky because if the ambient daylight is too bright (such as with direct sun), you can't slow the shutter speed down enough to create the artistic effect you want. I took this picture of a white horse in the Camargue region of France using 1/20th of a second. The lens aperture necessarily was small -- f/25 -- and the ISO had to be low -- 200 in this case. The actual shutter speed you use depends on a lot of things -- the speed of the subject, how much of the frame it fills, the lens, the camera movement, and your taste. Therefore, it's a trial and error situation. Experiment with various speeds until you like what you see. If you only get one shot at it, then I'd make an educated guess of between 1/10th and 1/20th of a second.
I'll be conducting another photo tour to Provence to photograph these beautiful horses in April, 2016. Here is a link to the information page: http://www.jimzuckerman.com/white-horses-of-the-camargue
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