Show Jumper

JSPhotographyJSPhotography Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
edited May 8, 2010 in Sports
A little different angle than the standard shot, I liked it.
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  • tjk60tjk60 Registered Users Posts: 520 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2010
    Nice angle on the horse, but the rider disappears...
    Tim
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  • SnowgirlSnowgirl Registered Users Posts: 2,155 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2010
    Interesting perspective. Makes that 3' ramped oxer look very impressive. Nice jumper. Were you risking life and limb under there or a good, long lens?mwink.gif
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  • HoofClixHoofClix Registered Users Posts: 1,156 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2010
    A "Triple Bar" it is.. Nice shot. I know you are pulling your hair out until they show outdoors!
    Mark
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    and I do believe its true.. that there are roads left in both of our shoes..
  • ckasparckaspar Registered Users Posts: 154 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2010
    Maybe it is just me but the white balance looks off.
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  • SnowgirlSnowgirl Registered Users Posts: 2,155 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2010
    HoofClix wrote: »
    A "Triple Bar" it is..

    Thank you. I was having a "senior moment" and couldn't remember the proper name. Duh.



    I bet! I have to shoot indoors all summer and it's a true PITA. A combination of halogen lighting, open side walls with everything in the ring back-lit, no really good vantage points - you get the picture. It affects everything. The only way to survive is to shoot RAW and then do a LOT of colour balancing after the fact. White balance is near impossible.
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  • JSPhotographyJSPhotography Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2010
    tjk60 wrote: »
    Nice angle on the horse, but the rider disappears...


    The horses owner says it's all about the horse, Laughing.gif. Next jump was to the right.
  • JSPhotographyJSPhotography Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2010
    Snowgirl wrote: »
    Interesting perspective. Makes that 3' ramped oxer look very impressive. Nice jumper. Were you risking life and limb under there or a good, long lens?mwink.gif

    I was good. I was done with prepay customers and was playing around with various shots. I was shooting through a fence that seperates the arena. Lens is just your standard 70-200 F2.8.
  • JSPhotographyJSPhotography Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2010
    HoofClix wrote: »
    A "Triple Bar" it is.. Nice shot. I know you are pulling your hair out until they show outdoors!

    Yes, finally outdoors, 2 shoots sp far, IN THE RAIN!! How do you handle that? I have been meaning to do some searching? I have been using a mono pod with an umbrella attached. It has been woking quite well.
  • SnowgirlSnowgirl Registered Users Posts: 2,155 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2010
    I have a Kata raincoat for my camera and lens. And a huge golf umbrella to be under. And a monopod. It's tricky. I'd like to get one of those patio umbrellas that are offset to use as a sunshade / rain protector but they're quite expensive and big to lug around.
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  • HoofClixHoofClix Registered Users Posts: 1,156 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2010
    I was thinking about white balance, and while it seems a bit warm, it's OK. I just took the picture into NX and used the white point on the jump standard, and it was better, to me anyway..

    When I'm indoors, and can't use flash, I've been taking presets on a white standard, on nice clean saddle pads, sometimes even a white pair of britches. It has been better than all the trial and error on the mixture of lights that you get in these situations. Just an idea..
    Mark
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  • HoofClixHoofClix Registered Users Posts: 1,156 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2010
    As for the rain, if I can't find shelter, I do sometimes use a black umbrella, slip the handle into my left outer coat pocket, and sort of clamp it under my left armpit while shooting. You do need to make sure you are well away from the ring rail with the umbrella though..
    Mark
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    and I do believe its true.. that there are roads left in both of our shoes..
  • JSPhotographyJSPhotography Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2010
    The set up worked well, I used a small black travel umbrella. During dressage I was set up between two arenas, shooting front-left and front-right of me. I was off the fences enough for riders to pass on each side. I did have one horse that would not enter the ring area with me there and I moved behind the judges stand. Laughing.gif, later in the day they asked if I got pictures of them. Hopefully now that I am two for two shooting in the rain my luck will improve for the rest of the summer.
  • JSPhotographyJSPhotography Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2010
    I'm going to throw this here, people on this string are probably the best to share it with. I'm shooting an event last weekend, I'm the event photog. A guy shows up by one of the jumps, has a 400mm 2.8. We talk a little, he is there with the family of a rider, shooting for pleasure, no problem there. I could tell he did not know anything about equestrian, normally shoots wildlife. We moved from XC to arena. My second is on one corner and I am on the opposite. I have two jumps along the rail coming straight at me. A truck pulls and parks behind one of them in a no parking area. Now I have a truck for a background vs the woods. The guy gets out and it is the guy with the 400/2.8. Change of class so I walk around and ask him to move it over, seems like it is no problem. I get back to my spot, not only does he not move the truck he sets up behind the other jump with his red shirt on. I was sooooo hot! What do you do? I bit my lip but it was very very hard to do.
  • SnowgirlSnowgirl Registered Users Posts: 2,155 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2010
    JSPhotography wrote: »
    I'm going to throw this here, people on this string are probably the best to share it with. I'm shooting an event last weekend, I'm the event photog. A guy shows up by one of the jumps, has a 400mm 2.8. We talk a little, he is there with the family of a rider, shooting for pleasure, no problem there. I could tell he did not know anything about equestrian, normally shoots wildlife. We moved from XC to arena. My second is on one corner and I am on the opposite. I have two jumps along the rail coming straight at me. A truck pulls and parks behind one of them in a no parking area. Now I have a truck for a background vs the woods. The guy gets out and it is the guy with the 400/2.8. Change of class so I walk around and ask him to move it over, seems like it is no problem. I get back to my spot, not only does he not move the truck he sets up behind the other jump with his red shirt on. I was sooooo hot! What do you do? I bit my lip but it was very very hard to do.

    Could you have asked show management to intervene if you are the official photographer. The truck parking is a definite no no. Don't know if you could have gotten him out of the way. Was he actually in the ring? Here only the 'official' photographer is allowed inside the ring (except dressage and reining where you can't be inside the ring) - but even there, the official photographer gets dibs on the best places to set up.
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  • JSPhotographyJSPhotography Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2010
    My point was that somebody that pays that much for glass, you would think, should have better etiquete towards other photogs. Normally, people that are there to shoot their friends I give them tips on what to do. Their friends are not going to buy anyway. This guy had no clue and I just needed to vent.
  • SnowgirlSnowgirl Registered Users Posts: 2,155 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2010
    JSPhotography wrote: »
    My point was that somebody that pays that much for glass, you would think, should have better etiquete towards other photogs. Normally, people that are there to shoot their friends I give them tips on what to do. Their friends are not going to buy anyway. This guy had no clue and I just needed to vent.

    No problem. I hear you because I think it happens to every photographer a lot of times and all you really can do is vent a bit.ne_nau.gif
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  • HoofClixHoofClix Registered Users Posts: 1,156 Major grins
    edited May 8, 2010
    J, it sounds like you were finally outside for a show.thumb.gif.

    If you are shooting HJ shows, I suppose the best thing to do is to get used to that sort of stuff.. When I first saw your post, all I was thinking of was the indoor ring I'm used to seeing from you, and only thought "how did they let a truck inside the building...."rolleyes1.gif

    Anyway, most of these folks aren't even aware of where the show photographer is, much less to understand the angles he/she is shooting.. Then you'll have the golf carts and all the other stuff that comes along with HJ..

    So I suppose vent all you want to us in here, but get used to it!
    Mark
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    and I do believe its true.. that there are roads left in both of our shoes..
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