Improvement or point of stagnation?

I have seen perpendicular or front quarter for jumps that look good. I think you could crop in more, eliminate the ground and shoot rider and horse head for straight ahead shots, stop down around f8 to get both in focus. Those pole obsticals are boring so don't include them.

I agree.. Crop tighter.. Or shoot tighter... That is a powerful animal and a delicate rider.. Try to capture that somehow.. Great exposures and sharp images..

My thanks both!
For the cropping/shooting tighter aspect I think I've got an idea of what you both mean; however I think I would certainly need a 45degree angle to the jump at the very least or maybe not quite? Is there a framing that you're thinking of that you could show me to better explain what you mean - either a show in someone elses short or if possible a crop on one of mine?

http://www.cambridgein​colour.com …thread9950.htm#​post112171
I did a Google search for "horse jumping" and there is a bunch of close and side images like the above link

My thanks chunky and yes that was the kind of angle I thought you were describing. I'd like to do more angles like that.

Sadly for this jump it wasn't practical. The jump was on the far right side next to the wall with the next jump to the left (if facing the horse and rider from the photographers point of view). So most times their head was going to be on the left side of the horse.

Being further over the left myself wasn't possible - I was at the barrier and moving further out would have put me right in the line of charge for where horse and rider wanted to go - and going to the right more would have given me the wrong side of where the head likely would be.