Burgie - Zara Philips

[dod]

Just finished covering the Burgie International Horse trials :)

Zara Phillips was undoubtedly the main attraction, as evidenced by the number of London Press in attendance. This was one of the few places they didn't go to :) The owner of Burgie Estate is, I believe, her God Mother and this shot shows Burgie Castle in the background, maybe something a bit different to the normal shots :)

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/8W0A2782.jpg

[Cobra]

And I think thats it works well Dod :thumbs:

[Yv]

What a great image, the lady herself would be proud of that one I think. :thumbs:

[King of Groove]

Well captured.

[frankee]

WOW i like this

[Craikeybaby]

I like it too!

One thing though, would you have got more of the house/castle in the bg if you'd panned left a bit, I think that having the house in the background makes the image...

[dod]

ta for the comments folks :)

Craikeybaby, no can do :( A sodding big pylon just out of frame. As it was I had to crawl into a gorse bush to get this angle

[Craikeybaby]

I thought it would be something like that.

[dogfan]

Sorry, looks noisy. soft and out of focus to me.

[Bobble]

Nice picture, your albums are not bad either, what equipment are you using.

[Hacker]

It works for me but I think it would benefit from a very small tilt to the right, the castle looks as if it is leaning slightly.

Looking forward to seeing some more Dod!


Sorry, looks noisy. soft and out of focus to me.

I presume you mean the castle? ;) The horse and rider look okay from where I'm sitting.

[mxfun]

ta for the comments folks :)

Craikeybaby, no can do :( A sodding big pylon just out of frame. As it was I had to crawl into a gorse bush to get this angle

Wiz ye hashed at the weekend Dod

[Venomator]

That is an excellent capture Dod ... :thumbs: ... a great action shot of a very recognisable young (?) rider ... :D







:p

[hypnotic]

The horse and rider look okay from where I'm sitting.

Looks fine from here too.

[dod]

Sorry, looks noisy. soft and out of focus to me.
could be compression or my processing :p, although it doesn't look great on the laptop here either to be honest :)

here's a 100% crop, no processing at all, it's fine :)
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/8W0A2782crop.jpg

Sean, we were hashed for four days solid. We weren't best organised for a number of reasons, mainly the fact that I nipped over to Spain for a pre-arranged break and only got back on the wednesday night before it started :p

[oldgit]

Considering the distance and the movement thats about as sharp as it gets. :thumbs:

Excellent photo

[HIMUPNORTH]

Good picture indeed Dod! :thumbs:

I lost two days transporting a horse last week to a clinic in Glasgow and as a result it could not attend this event. My lad and I scored however as we didn't need to sleep in a tent for his downhill race and took the horsebox instead. :D

The girls were there Dod and were drooling over the horsebox the subject in your picture was living in! :)

[Venomator]

That crop is simply stunning Dod ... :eek:






:p

[dod]

The girls were there Dod and were drooling over the horsebox the subject in your picture was living in! :)

Allegedly that was £470K's worth :eek::eek:

[Paul Holtom]

Good picture, really like the angle.

[Jamougha]

Nice picture. The reason it looks 'unsharp' is that you have some space in the levels that's losing you contrast - when people say 'sharp' they're usually talking about contrast, not sharpness.

Hope you don't mind, I fixed the levels, ran an unsharp on the castle to reduce the distance haze and used a contrast map to bring out detail in the shadows on the horse.

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/3777/zaragk7.jpg

[paul cull-pearce]

Nice photo Dod !

Paul