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You remember me having a panic about this horse show, here are a few pics, what do you think?

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A very good attempt :thumbs:

The only slight thing I'd change is maybe the exposure in the first one, which is a little bright, but a very nice capture.
 
not sure about the cropping, the first needs to be more central. the others are too square, which isnt really too much of a problem, until you want to get them printed.

otherwise good, horse position in #1 is perfect. #2 not so..
 
Should they be more oblong?
thanks Jim:)
ETA If any Equine photographers want a second camera help anytime just give me a shout, or any photography really.
 
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I think #1 just needs centering!
 
Did you shoot jpeg or raw?

What software do you use for processing?

In raw you have an exposure slider, you can just lower it there, or if its jpeg, photoshop CS or Elements has an exposure option under the 'image' menu.
 
odd jim said:
Did you shoot jpeg or raw?

What software do you use for processing?

In raw you have an exposure slider, you can just lower it there, or if its jpeg, photoshop CS or Elements has an exposure option under the 'image' menu.
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I have lightroom 3
 
DemiLion said:
You don't. You leave it exactly as it is.

The exposure is perfect for the horse; forget about the background.
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I was thinking of horse and rider. Doesnt look right to me but maybe thats just a personal thing? I still think its overexposed ever so slightly. But then thats the problem I've found with dark coloured horses, its much easier shooting bays!
 
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Well Donna after all the panicking......:clap: :clap:. Well done.

#1 is a tad too bright, apart from that its not a bad shot.

#2 would have been better if you could see the riders face more. Fill in flash would have cured this and taken the shadow from the face, but thats something you can look into at a later date when you feel a bit more confident and get a bit more experience.

Cropping will come with experience. Take a look in the sports sections at the way the shots have been cropped.

Overall well done Donna. :thumbs:
 
neil_g said:
id be warey about using flash at equestrian events, especially as you have no way of knowing how a strangers horse will react.
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I'd go further; just don't, full stop.

If you don't have complete control of the environment, flash is completely verboten.

Unless of course you have a compact camera that you don't know how to operate and don't give a flying f*** about someone else's safety!! :bang:
 
The thing is, with the majority of horses you'll be fine as the light is generally too fast for them to react to, but all it takes is the wrong horse, at the wrong moment, in the wrong environment, and you've got some serious injury to deal with.

Next time point the Steward in their direction! :D
 
he didnt hang around for long, luckily the 1 horse he took shots of didnt seem to worried.

but yeah its not a good idea to be spooking horses, ive only ever done it once when i tripped over, the noise of me going over on gravel freaked out a horse in the warmup arena and it threw the rider off... :bonk: luckily she was okay.
 
For some reason you've shot these at 800 ISO - you could have improved quality by coming down to 200ISO and still having fast enough shutter speeds. Why did you use 800?
 
Indeed, never use a flash at any equestrian event.

I see it sometimes indoors with kids with p&s's. Crazy.
 
awp said:
For some reason you've shot these at 800 ISO - you could have improved quality by coming down to 200ISO and still having fast enough shutter speeds. Why did you use 800?
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I was playing it safe !! :D
But ended up to light.
 
Your shutter speeds are all up around 1/4000th which is faster than they needed to be - but certainly 'safe'. You just might get increased noise - depends how your camera handles it.
 
neil_g said:
id be warey about using flash at equestrian events, especially as you have no way of knowing how a strangers horse will react.
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I wasn't advocating using flash just saying that it would have been nice to see the riders face and that the only way to have achieved this would have been with fill in flash.

I agree with both Neil and Mark.

Sorry for any confusion.
 
Im going to Suffolk show tomorrow to get some photos of foriegn breeds classes and what ever else takes my fancy :lol:
Lots of stunning black Friesians :love:
 
As a former competition rider and trainer

#1 is a lovely shot and I like that the horse is moving into some space. If you shoot in RAW you can do clever pp in LR but I agree that the subject should be well lit and this appears to be the case here.

#2 is a very cramped shot, no room around the subject at all and as has been mentioned the riders face is totally obscured. Again if you shot RAW this could be 'corrected' in LR. NEVER use flash around horses as even if the horse doesn't respond the rider may, causing an unintentional accident.

#3 Get someone else to shoot the ghastly snowy white grey! This has portions that look blown to me (overexposed) to mean no detail.

Having said all that mealy mouthed crit, you have a good eye, keep going :thumbs:
 
I had a wee play without trying to change the colour of the horse but not sure I have achieved

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admirable said:
I had a wee play without trying to change the colour of the horse but not sure I have achieved

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Your looks a tad better, what did you do? :thumbs:
p.s I have a horse myself and have been around them for many years so im aware of not using a flash , but thankyou for the warning had i not known.
 
TinaC said:
NEVER use flash around horses as even if the horse doesn't respond the rider may, causing an unintentional accident.
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Absolutely. It's well known that most jockeys are thicker than their mounts! :p :lol:
 
TinaC said:
As a former competition rider and trainer

#1 is a lovely shot and I like that the horse is moving into some space. If you shoot in RAW you can do clever pp in LR but I agree that the subject should be well lit and this appears to be the case here.

#2 is a very cramped shot, no room around the subject at all and as has been mentioned the riders face is totally obscured. Again if you shot RAW this could be 'corrected' in LR. NEVER use flash around horses as even if the horse doesn't respond the rider may, causing an unintentional accident.

#3 Get someone else to shoot the ghastly snowy white grey! This has portions that look blown to me (overexposed) to mean no detail.

Having said all that mealy mouthed crit, you have a good eye, keep going :thumbs:
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Thankyou, i found the greys hard work, all the greys come out pretty pants.
 
friesianfan69 said:
Thankyou, i found the greys hard work, all the greys come out pretty pants.
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Two methods of handling them:

1) When they are static like that, meter off the grass in manual and they should be fine.

2) if you are dealing with motion, or frequent switching of animals, use AV and add +2/3 to 1 stop EC in evaluative metering (matrix in Nikon speak I think).
 
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