Something new from me

gsgary

I went with my girlfriend to Chatsworth SsongYong International Horse Trials today had a great time shooting the best Eventers in the world as it is the 11th round of the World Cup
C+C welcome

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The advice i have recieved on here is starting to pay off

Dave Lee

Very nice. I really like #'s 1,4,6 & 7

gsgary

Dave Lee wrote:

Very nice. I really like #'s 1,4,6 & 7

Thank's Dave

tmlphoto

These look very good. It looks like your choice of shutter speed and aperture were perfect. It's not easy to get both the horse & rider in focus and still have a blurred background. You did very well.

CookieS

Some very Nice shsots !! when doing jump shots you can sometimes focus on the front of the jump , so when they are over it the front of the horse in in focus. or Landing shots ty to keep the feet in . Nice Clarity. and the expression on #2s face, Cool

gsgary

tmlphoto wrote:

These look very good. It looks like your choice of shutter speed and aperture were perfect. It's not easy to get both the horse & rider in focus and still have a blurred background. You did very well.

Thank's Thomas
Positive comments from you means a lot after seing some of your shots much appreciated

gsgary

CookieS wrote:

Some very Nice shsots !! when doing jump shots you can sometimes focus on the front of the jump , so when they are over it the front of the horse in in focus. or Landing shots ty to keep the feet in . Nice Clarity. and the expression on #2s face, Cool

Thank's CookieS

adrian_k

Gary
The whole smugmug gallery is pretty good - looks like you got a good hit rate.

Looking through your EXIFs there's a wide range of settings - were you shooting manual?

gsgary wrote:

I went with my girlfriend to Chatsworth SsongYong International Horse Trials today had a great time shooting the best Eventers in the world as it is the 11th round of the World Cup
C+C welcome

The advice i have recieved on here is starting to pay off

DoctorIt

And I thought all you could do was bikes!

some good framing there Gary - if you're an admitted newcomer to this sport, you did well in picking up the right kind of action quickly.

gsgary

adrian_k wrote:

Gary
The whole smugmug gallery is pretty good - looks like you got a good hit rate.

Looking through your EXIFs there's a wide range of settings - were you shooting manual?

Thank's Adrian
First off i was shooting AV but got talking to a pro who was a great help
so i started shooting manual every time a white horse or someone wearing a lot of white he told me i needed to change settings to avoid whites blowing out, he also told me to meter off the grass which worked a treat

gsgary

DoctorIt wrote:

And I thought all you could do was bikes!

some good framing there Gary - if you're an admitted newcomer to this sport, you did well in picking up the right kind of action quickly.

Thank's Erik, this was my first time at this sport and will not be the last it was a blast,
What about my rugby shots i'm not doing bad at them, i'll give you only bikes

DoctorIt

gsgary wrote:

Thank's Erik, this was my first time at this sport and will not be the last it was a blast,
What about my rugby shots i'm not doing bad at them, i'll give you only bikes

System

High quality
Really nice shots:

#1 horse & rider both have lovely expression
#2 The rider's eyes say it all!

Also really liked #8 - quintessential eventing shot with the eager horse, loving his job, splashing water, with a bit of reflection in the still area.

(only oops is as CookieS points out, cutting the horse in #7, but still, you caught the rider's expression and the really tight hind end as the horse works to clear the fence.)

Great work!

Ironhorse

Nicely done, Gary. The entire gallery on your website came out very well. Those events are a great deal of fun to shoot.

gsgary

KaMo wrote:

Really nice shots:

#1 horse & rider both have lovely expression
#2 The rider's eyes say it all!

Also really liked #8 - quintessential eventing shot with the eager horse, loving his job, splashing water, with a bit of reflection in the still area.

(only oops is as CookieS points out, cutting the horse in #7, but still, you caught the rider's expression and the really tight hind end as the horse works to clear the fence.)

Great work!

Thank's KaMo, i think i cropped #7 and did a bad job there wer a lot of people to the left but i wanted the photographer in

gsgary

Ironhorse wrote:

Nicely done, Gary. The entire gallery on your website came out very well. Those events are a great deal of fun to shoot.

Yes it was good fun i used the 200mmF2.8L for most shots, thanks for looking through the gallery