[emilyh]

Cameraclicker – the visuals and exif are *incredibly* helpful. I see what you mean about being able to preserve detail in the darker areas without completely blowing the available highlights with the raw files… I’m going out to the yearling sales at Keeneland this week, and I’ll be implementing all of this, since so much of it is indoors (where I’ll have the advantage of my faster 40mm 2.8, which fits well with your comparison shots). I’ve certainly used jpeg as a bit of a crutch for the quicker burst shooting, but it’s harmed my timing and probably killed some otherwise useable shots in the process.

Thank you!!!!!

[emilyh]

Cassie – I really should leave a disclaimer in the photo description with the chestnut and child – my sister was actually standing crouched, holding him by the waist while I took the picture, so should he have moved a muscle, the little one would have been out of the way, and I removed her when editing. (I trust the old man with my life – but not my son’s! ha!) Looking at the picture after the fact (it’s about a year old), I can tell I was a bit sloppy with removing her hands around his waist (shirt details), and there’s still a bit of her shoe stuck in there. Oops! 😉  … as far as disciplines go, racing and h/j are probably the biggest things around here, though with the horse park right next door, I’d love to get out to shoot some of the higher level dressage – I could use the timing practice, for sure. Really, I’m smack in the middle of all things equestrian, so getting out to events of all types would be a great benefit.

Thomas – that’s actually why that picture (Graze) didn’t get deleted straight off… I thought there was something interesting about it, being so weirdly abstract. LOL … and as for wanting “After The Races” on your wall – by all means – be my guest! 😉 I’m glad you like it!

Thank you all again! Your comments are wonderfully helpful.

[emilyh]

Cameraclicker – JUST what I was looking for!! Thank you!

You know, I seem to not even consider the rider in far too many instances, hence cutting off of heads and leaving faces almost black. 😉 Having been a rider at the track, I should have taken note that it’s nice to see yourself in the image too, and not just the horse. Heh!

When it comes to softness in the photos… I’m having a really tough time in less than ideal lighting with my long lens (ancient 70-200 4-5.6)… i.e. anything other than full-on-sun. On my T3 body, any ISO above 400  to keep a higher shutter speed seems to bring on pretty bad noise and sharpness issues (obv), and if I drop the ISO to counterract that, I lose a lot of speed and bring in the motion blur >:( . When it comes to a quick-moving subject in shadow/cloud, do you have any suggestion for me to balance it out a bit better? Because I’m obviously not there.

[emilyh]

Well, poo. Already a fail on my part. Flickr to the rescue. http://www.flickr.com/photos/101296646@N06/

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