Youngest Niece on her Arab - Ben Najif
Sisters Arab
Great Niece - Lead Rein
She loves her horse
Sisters Arab
Great Niece - Lead Rein
She loves her horse
Horses / Horseriding etc
- Thread starter glongstaff
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Your grand niece is very cute with that pony.
One comment, not sure if you're able to, but a fill-flash (preferably a 430EX or 580EX class, or even off camera) would help greatly for riders faces.
Also you're at ISO 400 @/f13, any particular reason you are stopping down so far instead of f/7.1 or f/8 or so? 1/500 is good, but you probably could go faster with ISO100 @f/7.1, and you'd probably get slightly sharper images, since on a crop you tend to (depending on pixel counts) start hitting diffraction limits quicker than full frame.
One comment, not sure if you're able to, but a fill-flash (preferably a 430EX or 580EX class, or even off camera) would help greatly for riders faces.
Also you're at ISO 400 @/f13, any particular reason you are stopping down so far instead of f/7.1 or f/8 or so? 1/500 is good, but you probably could go faster with ISO100 @f/7.1, and you'd probably get slightly sharper images, since on a crop you tend to (depending on pixel counts) start hitting diffraction limits quicker than full frame.
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Drizzt321 said:
cheers for the comments.....
I dont like using Flash on or off the camera near the horses...as you never know if your going to spook one near you
The conditions look better than they were and with I was using the large Sigma Lens which cuts alot of light out in itself...
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glongstaff said:
Yea, I figured using a flash around most animals would tend to spook them, unless you have them trained to it. You might need to slightly over-expose the overall image, and bring down the rest of the image in post in order to get more light on the faces.
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Sporgon said:Two of mine, before I tried to kill the riders with fill in flash
Oh, and the third one's me...........
cracking shots
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Drizzt321 said:
Yeah, I have always been one in the past to believe in the photo should be OOC...but have purchased lightroom and just teaching myself the software and have revisited some photos
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Narcolepsy said:
Gorgeous! Just a tiny bit of motion blur to the rider and horse, but it's perfect sense of motion and capture of the moment. Well done!
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Narcolepsy said:
Nice effect but looks like a montage - is it a single frame or has the horse and rider been added ?
Looks like a very frosty Irish morning !
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RJB said:
Second picture's Big White Lens alert !
And the third ; she's found there's no food in it ;D
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Sporgon said:
Thank you - appreciate the nice comments
Single frame
Very hurried shot - and the shutter speed was not high enough (taken 5D2 24-105 1/320 f4 ISO200 - fairly heavy crop) - some post in Aperture and Niksoft - may be I was a little heavy handed with my post processing (which was mainly to lighten the foreground) which is why it looks like a composite - just for interest a very down-scaled jpg of the straight out of camera is attached
If we have a similarly beautiful dawn I would love to retake with my brand new 70-200 2.8 and be smarter (or quicker) setting the camera up
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@Narcolepsy, great shot, like the original. If it was mine I think I'd keep full width but crop it top/bottom to give 1x2 format.
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Equilux said:Just to show
7D with EF 85/1.8
Light: Broncolor Para 330
Lovely professional horse portrait.
If youd taken a broncolour para within twenty yards of any of my horses you'd have got a very different picture ;D
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Sporgon said:
Agreed. Make it seem more of a panoramic. If that were mine I'd make a print of it and hang it on the wall, it's fantastic.
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