Best lens which used to create fanning effect.. | Nikon Lenses | Photo Forum

The only ways to freeze an action at night is to use flash or high ISO, which lets you to use fast enough shutter speed to freeze the action. The lenses with wider apertures will let you to use lower ISO. 50mm for example goes to F1.8 or F1.4. But depending on what you are taking pictures of, you do not always want to use the widest aperture, because of very shallow DoF.

For panning your shatter speed could be around 1/30 – 1/125, depending how fast your subject is moving and how far you are from it. When you will have to adjust all your other setting accordingly to get a good exposure. Sometime during the day ND filter can be useful to cut down the light and get a good exposure with required shutter speed.