>Jerome cybered
> thick, eh? we'll see <g>
>
> Overall, nice photos. I tried my hand at equestrian stuff not too long ago; it
> was interesting. It took a few missed shots to get the timing part down, but
> that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be (I guess the movement is quite
> predictable, deterministic in fact, and they're not going as fast as I thought
> they would). On about 2 jumps, I also tried to exploit the 2.5 fps rate of the
> MZ-S just outta curiousity, and I gotta say: That approach seems like a waste
> of time and film. It clearly didn't stack up at all (for me) to the "one shot
> with good timing" approach.
Thats what i do,one shot and its done.I have found that i can look at a spot,wait for
the
horse then i "see"the jump movement(hard to describe)then shoot.Only on occasion now
am i
early or
late.I'm using a monopod instead of hand holding,and it seems to allow me a tad more
time
to make
my click decision.
>
> Overall, the hardest part was positioning myself so that my backgrounds were as
> nice as possible, and not particularly cluttered. I'm guessing that's a
> challenge in general if your not an "official photog" for the event. I got
> lucky since the course I was on was particularly spacious, but judging from the
> photos, it seems like this would be quite difficult at the courses you frequent.
Yes,correct there.There are a few areas that have nice backgrounds(Palgrave is one)
but even when i'm the "official guy" i still have problems.Portapotties in behind a
perfect jump to shoot, wires or poles in bad spots etc etc.
>
> Of them all, I like the "Palgrave Schooling Class" gallery the most; probably
> due to a bit more variety of shots in that one.
Palgrave is nice,its up on a hill with some trees and some open spots,good for
any type of photos. The main problem is the design of the course.If they have the
course
set up,photo friendly, its fine but if they have them jumping with poor backgrounds or
bad sun angles,you have to accept a slightly less perfect location.
>Along those lines, IN THEORY
> (i.e., "I could be wrong, but...") it seems like it would be a neat thing to
> get more shots of some of the other stuff that happens around the track. When I
> was there, that was some of the stuff that caught my eye the most. Like
> preparation of the horses, etc. I caught a few down-time quiet moments between
> horse and jockey that seemed pretty intimate and added a totally different feel
> to the picture set (which was less than a roll, and honestly not good enough to
> show off anywhere). If I was to shoot it again, I think that may be something
> I'd pay more attention to in order to break the monotony of all the see-the-
> horsey-jump photos I got.
I plan on doing more,but the clients just want to see them jumping. If i get a domain
name soon,i'll have more space,and can put more of theses up.
>
>
> As for the website overall, it would help a lot if you added some navigation
> buttons to each of the galleries. Once I click on a gallery and go thru all of
> the photos. There's no easy way to get back to the main page to select another
> gallery. (Aside from re-entering the original URL), my only option is to hit
> the back button a bunch of times, which means that I have to go thru the same
> photos all over again before returning to start. Get what I mean? You already
> have navigation in most other places, so that's hopefully a pretty trivial (but
> nice) modification.
It took me 2 months to get this far.LOL. I see what you mean,i'll try and fix that.
>
> I guess the other option is to have another window open when a visitor clicks
> on the gallery. But that's way over my head in terms of the how-to's.
>
> Oh yeah! none of the other (no horsey) gallery links worked for me... but I'm
> guessing you know that already. Hope that was helpful.
Yes,i have yet to upload any pictures just yet.Soon i hope.
>
> How's that skin holding up? :o)
Fine,thanks for the comments and tips.:-)
Dave
>
> - jerome
>
