Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Shalom Alex, Welcome to the fun house! :-) Looked at your galleries and good photography without question. On your sport gallery solid photo work on the Rhythmic Gymnastics, peak action is right on the mark time and time again. well done. The equestrian photo when the sport page opens. This particular timing is too late! Shooting equestrian events you want to capture the horse with it's front legs high and about to go over the jump or as horse and rider are at the peak covering the jump. Once they go past this point and on the way down is a nothing moment...... that is unless the rider is coming out of the saddle and onto the ground or water! Now that's a different action compared to a successful jumper. You might like to look here for a jumping picture at the Olympics I shot a few years ago. http://tedgrantphoto.com/1j.htm Shooting from your side position to the jump as we see in the sport gallery it's very important to catch the horse and rider on the way up or right at the top. If you watch without shooting you'll see the horse almost fully extended as it pushes off it's hind legs and rider leaning forward! That's the moment you want. So when you shoot, all of this happens very quickly. So without question you are watching all this happen with the camera at your eye... horse goes up..... you go click! :-) Looking forward to more of your photography. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited 1817 Feltham Road Victoria BC V8N 2A4 CANADA 250-477-2156 tedgrantphoto.com tedgrant@shaw.ca