Tibetan Horseman

Taken during horse riding competition in central Tibet. I was almost run down by this horse and rider moments after I fired off a burst of shots. I traveled overland for several days to reach this destination. This event had never been photographed before from what I was told by locals.

Exciting shot... quite spectacular! I love the white of the horse's eye... I am almost drawn to it.

Fabulous.

 

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This is awesome!

WOW!

Very well done! The horse is incredible..whoa!

++++

Superb photo , it may be possible to lighten slightly the horseman's face on Photoshop or similar.

Very Brave indeed !

 

It may be a little too tight but the man and the horse are nicely captured.

Bill, really nice shot. And you must have a death wish. ;-)

 

Actually, my only complaint is that I think it's cropped just the tiniest bit too tight on the left-hand side. Is that the full frame? That's not so much a complaint as a geez-that's-a-great-shot-but...

 

It looks like the horseman is picking something up. If so, what? (The teeth of the last photog who tried to make this shot? ;-) )

 

Seriously, really nice.

 

Yours,

RC

I'm a bit mean with my marks, so this is my first double 7!! Well done!

Ross and Frank- I thoroughly appreciate your comments. This shot is full frame and scanned directly from the slide. I fired a burst of around five frames and two others are equally as good, but a little different. I had dirt thrown in my face and felt the wind from the horse as I jumped to the side. Maybe I'll post another for you to compare.

Bill

Color, expressive composition, action-packed subject; all work beautifully in this great photograph. The bystander in the background to the right, on the other hand, does not. I would clone him out. Regards.

really impressive capture... the photo takes you to the moment... excellent work!

+ + +

Immaculate action shot.

I can feel the heart pounding action. It must have been an exiciting moment for you as you took the shot and avoided the action. The horse appears to look right at you.

What a fantastic shot ! I would have given it a 7/7 without an hesitation, a few days ago, when I saw this. But is it not simply BLURRY...? Or does sharpness not matter? I had to push myself real hard to rate this a 6/5 simply because of the blur. (Side-note: not to keen on the black thing at the bottom, although my main concern is sharpness in this case...) Cheers.

Strong shot. Good position and timing by the photographer provide the viewer a great sense of the concentration of the rider and the effort by the horse. I would like to see this with presentation details cleaned up, which probably means a cleaner scan. Nice work. Enjoy.

I think this is a good shot with a bad scan, so perhaps the softness you're talking about is a processing problem, not a shooting one.

I think this is an original shot that was very hard to grab. However, I also have a problem with the aesthetics portion of it. I wish to see the face well-lit, the photo sharper, and an urgent bottom crop.

As you say, Marshall, "PERHAPS"... and perhaps it's a blurry original as well. I only get scans this blur when I'm scanning film on a flatbed without a proper light attachment. No matter whether it's the scan or not, if it is the scan that's problematic, then the shot is still great, but we aren't sure of that, and in my view, [it is] a jpeg that's technically off the mark. Just my humble opinion. Technique does matter - sorry. And aren't we here to comment on what we are presented with - a jpeg ? Or should we always assume that it's the scanner's fault - in which case there are no blurry pictures at all on Photo.net...?

A look at the ground indicates that the depth of focus was apparently quite shallow, and that the area that was perfectly in focus was probably just in front of the horse. Marc is always a stickler for sharpness, crispness, but in an action shot such as this I don't find it that much of a shortcoming. Even so, I personally would have shot this in shutter priority at a fast shutter speed and with a faster film--all easy to say after the fact. I like the action captured here, and, if there were blur implying motion, the lack of crispness might even be a plus. In this case, however, the image is simply a bit soft. It's still very good, in my opinion.

Have to agree with Marc. The sharpness is a real issue with this shot, as is the black borders coming in the right side and bottom. The pressure point on the left by the horses nose I find very troubling. Albeit a nice shot, IMO it has a lot of issues.

 

I would expect a shot like this to make me feel something. Great action shots always do. Scoring a goal, hitting the game winning home run, skydiving, they all give me a feeling of excitement or joy. This image just leaves me flat. My 2 cents... Dave

How the hell anybody could be left "flat" by this image beats the live'n s**t out of me! This is the first POW in weeks that has any dynamism to it at all. The expression on the horse's face is priceless. SHARPNESS/SHMARPNESS!! This is a great shot, love that action. Give us more like this for your POW.