Showjumping

[Trev Rich]

I have been to 4 local showjumping events and I love this one that I took at my 1st event.

http://trevrich.com/php/images/my_images/dscf1901.jpg

[JPS]

Nicely caught, almost like she is making sure you got the shot in before she lands.

[Hacker]

A good shot Trev and I like the way the rider is looking in your direction, the only minor crit is that the image looks a bit cluttered with all the jumps and fences. It also looks like it could with a sharpen.

Nice looking horse as well (apart from the bling bling browband :eek:), that's the colour of offspring our Marci is going to hopefully produce.

:thumbs:

[Trev Rich]

thanks guys.. theres not much i could do about the fenses lol. and when you are posting up about 100 shots for peeps to buy you dont get much time to sort out the processing unless they order :)

[BobR]

Trev,

I normally run a quick droplet in CS2 for web sharpening before uploading. Its dead quick and makes the pics look good. I know what you mean though about processing and uploading. I normally go through anything upto about 800 shots from an equine event and have to process quickly as riders are hitting the website hours later!!

I can see what Colin means about the shot being a bit cluttered but on the day it is always tricky to get a good position especially when the light moves around. I have cover two venues regularly and have got to know the best angles on the jumps - but often you get somebody in the background or they park the wagon there! Arrrghhh!

Anyway nice shot and anybody who so obviously looks at the camera like that is going to be a potential customer for sure!!

Cheers,

BobR

[Trev Rich]

Cheers Bob..
I find that the best angle is the one where you can see the most jumps. So you get get a nice series of the rider.
I have CS2 but have no idea about "droplets"..... hellllllllllllllllpppppppppp lol

[BobR]

droplets are basically actions that sit on your desktop. You drag the file or folder containing the files you want to alter onto the droplet and it will do whatever action you have set it to do.

For instance as part of my work flow I resize, convert the image to SRGB and then sharpen all in one droplet. Saves an age in time. If you get a copy of Kelby's book on photoshop you will be laughing.

Look at this link (and the ones it links to) it will help you a great deal. I tell you with this forum you won't go far wrong.

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=28749&highlight=droplet

Regards,

Bob

[Trev Rich]

Thanks for that Bob.. Looks great and well worth learning..
But for the resizing side of it... It's bloody quick in lightroom to select the lot and export the images.
I just dont think you can batch sharpen and stuff so will be nice to look into this.

Thanks for the time taken to show me the link :thumbs:

[Hacker]

I just dont think you can batch sharpen and stuff so will be nice to look into this.



As Bob syas you can create a droplet for almost any action which can then be used when exporting from Lightroom just fill in all the relevant boxes in the Image Settings area and in the bottom box use the After Export dialogue to run your droplet.