Follow The Till

"Follow The Till" winning at Caulfield. An exercise in panning.

Very difficult indeed with horse racing as you have to contend with

vertical as well as horizontal motion. I used the IS feature on the

Canon lens. Don't know if it helps that much in this situation.

Comments appreciated.

I know it is difficult but looks like you are pretty well onto it Neil, certainly worth the effort as we can see here. great sense of movement, most impressed. cheers Peter.

Excellent you got him into the frame !!

Nice photo.

Thanks

One word: "Wow!" I REALLY like this shot.

DP

I love all your horse pictures! Especially this one and the jumping horses. I tried panning (is that how I'd say it?) last week at the beach and it just didn't work. This looks great!

 

Makes me miss my Isabel. (She's a horse :o)

 

Janet

Thanks very much Janet for your comments. Glad you like this one. I have done countless panning shots at slow shutter speeds without nailing many shots that were any good. It's difficult to get horse and rider reasonably sharp while getting the streaky motion blur in the background; mainly because the horse and jockey move in every direction rather than just horizontally. Wonderful creatures horses aren't they? Kind regards, Neil

Ah... quite difficult to even get this amount of sharpening. I think it's a more than acceptable work, especially sice the horse's legs expand and create an interesting compositional effect.

No more to say I think you have this one spot on very well composed and a very good action shot here neil.....GREAT SHOT.....THANKS ALLAN