Show Jumping

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First time shooting Show Jumping....

Let me know what you think..

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http://www.speightweb.com/potn/HS-1.jpg

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http://www.speightweb.com/potn/HS-2.jpg

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http://www.speightweb.com/potn/HS-3.jpg

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http://www.speightweb.com/potn/HS-4.jpg

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http://www.speightweb.com/potn/HS-5.jpg

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http://www.speightweb.com/potn/HS-6.jpg

The day was a "changing weather" day.....as soon as i got the ND filter on, out came the clouds....took it of...bright sunshine!!!! :evil:

C&C Welcome

TFL

[Croasdail]

Nice tight shots there... well done. Color is a bit goofy though after the first shot though - very much leaning to the cool side. I little PP color fixes and you'll be gold with these.

[OEH]

They're very nice, good moments caught. But there's something a bit odd with all the coats on all the horses- weirdly smooth- no detail in the hairs. Maybe something you did in pp? They look a little plastic to me.

[Pete's Prints]

Very nice series, thanks for sharing.

[CanadianKitKat]

All great shots! Love the close ups where you can see all their veins popping!

[copr33]

Please share your camera set up?

[booju]

They're very nice, good moments caught. But there's something a bit odd with all the coats on all the horses- weirdly smooth- no detail in the hairs. Maybe something you did in pp? They look a little plastic to me.


Those are some really incredible shots...The photography standpoint superb and excellent...but as far as one element in PP quite frankly overdone in PP especially the horse's coats and riders apparel...IMO and I' m a total noob at all of this is that there's just too much detail lost in those areas and the shots are so GRAND that you cannot afford to have that IMHO...

It looks like "UNREAL" excellent shots of PLASTIC RIDERS dressed in PLASTIC APPARREL jumping PLASTIC HORSES in SUPERB shots up real close but that's about it for me....If that's the STYLE you're shooting for in these I would say thumbs-up you NAILED it big time and congrats!!!

But if you're looking for something that's realistic, really REAL...Although I'm a noob I would MASK the rider and the horse and apply your favorite Noise Reduction software tool to the BG alone....Save the details and apply the regular adjustment stuff to the horse and rider sharpen and USM and good to go IMHO...

The detail would be phenomenal IMHO...

Please take this in the spirit as it was intended to be just a constructive personal opinion...I'm in no-wise an expert but I found some things like this in my workflow to be very valuable in NAILING the PP in my images to my liking...

Sometimes its easy to get carried away with NOISE and in return we carry away our detail and there is nothing left to extract from our images...I'm just implying that IMHO you might want to back-off "NOT" some, but a lot and you would have some INCREDIBLE images...

Just my two-cents in keeping it REAL IF that's the way you want to go with it... :)

[danaitch]

These look spot-on to me, albeit in need of a little colour boost here and there. The only criticism I could really find would be that in a couple of the images, the focus is on the face of the horse, not the rider.

For me, keep it real rather than getting lost in PP and creating an artificial image. If you need your image to jump out further than your miximum aperture will allow, save your pennies until your maximum aperture is wider. There's nothing, to me, that makes an artificially BG softened image look as good as a naturally blurred BG image.

From my own knowledge, I'd be surprised to be able to see the horses' hair on these photos. The idea of a throughbred horse having hair like a cow is a bit weird. The grooming regime is probably what causes the lack of visible hair on a photo (although I'm sure there's enough hair there to trigger a sneezing fit once you get close enough! :lol: ). The fact that you can see the whiskers on the horses' chins is proof enough that the detail here is good and sharp.