Horse Racing Miles City 2009

Appreciate any comments or helpful suggestions. I know its a fairly tight

shot, but it is not a crop. Shot with 600mm f/4 IS.

 

Thanks,

 

Derrick

WOW! Great focus.

Thanks Emmanuel. THe 40D did surprisingly well in AI servo with the subject moving toward me at full speed.

Derrick, I'm not qualified to critique photography, but I am qualified to critique horse racing, and you have truly "caught the moment" here ~ GREAT photo! Please, please contact the trainer of this horse and the jockey ~ they would love to have a copy of this photo. The black jockey, Clyde would really like a copy of his photo too! You are now a celebrity on the backside of the Miles City race track! Introduce yourself. These people love your work and want to meet you!!

Thanks for the words of inspriation Jody. And its nice to put Clyde's name with his photo, thank you for that. I will be there this weekend as well. I will be sure to try and meet folks this time.

 

Derrick

Either one likes the blur of the dirt flying or prefer crisp bits of dirt flying. I tend to like crisp specks of dirt flying. I am guessing, but it looks like the light was somewhat diffuse and required you to use a shutter speed slower that 1/1000 second. It would be also improved if the head of the horse was a little bit crisper. This could also be a little motion blur, but may be from compression. But, the isolated action and moment in the stride is a powerful image.

Thanks David. I too like a more crisp, frozen action image. This was one of the late races of the day and I was in experimentation mode. I took quite a few of the more traditional high shutter speed shots that day. This shot I lowered the ISO to 200 to drop the shutter speed down in aperture priority. I did an 8x10 print of this shot last night, and it actually looks crisp other than the legs and dirt. Therefore I am assuming much of what we see here is compression. I have decided to avoid horse racing shots with the low shutter speed as the general concensus is to totally freeze the action. Back to ISO 800 I go. Thanks for the input, much appreciated.

 

Derrick