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Thought I would stop by the Penrith Trotts tonight to try out my new D700. I have posted a couple of photo's from tonight.

I would be interested to see what people think of them..... stilll trying to get use to panning while taking photo's.

Cheers Andrew

I know more about the trots than I do about photography (grew up at the trots, my dad trained and drove pacers for a living for many years) and I really like these photos, especially number 3... conveys the excitement of the horses turning into the straight, racing for the line.... their legs blurred gives the feeling of speed.... cool photo!!! I'm going to the trots Sat night so I will see what photos I can come up with too!

Ditto on number #3.

Do you have the details in regards to Lens/Aperture etc etc that you used for these?

not bad, but think a bit of work on composition next time ?

1st is too tight on the left
2nd can be cropped tighter with more horses to the left
last is very cool, but feet are lopped off a bit

Looks like a fun thing to do.

#3 is almost very good, but it suffers from the same problem that each of these images suffers from ...

kiwi wrote:not bad, but think a bit of work on composition next time ?

1st is too tight on the left
2nd can be cropped tighter with more horses to the left
last is very cool, but feet are lopped off a bit

Exactly.

And these images demonstrate the all-too-common issue that I often comment upon - our failure to look around the viewfinder before squeezing the shutter. I accept that these images are not your stock-standard mom-and-pop-standing-by-the-road-sign images, but that still doesn't mean that we cannot try to pay attention to some of the spacing of the elements within the image: in #3, it would (should) have been a simple task to just aim the camera a little bit lower: look at the space above the horses' heads.

I imagine that the framing for the first two has been done with a view to panning, but reserving some of the frame for the subject to appear to have space to run "into" the image, which is good. It's just a matter of getting that balance right. In the first image, by framing with the trailing edge of the harness and leaving just a smidgeon of extra room there, this image would have been far better as well.

I think the third image should be cropped more tightly.

I once had the trots....from swimming at the lake at Lennox Heads, but that's another story.

Yep, the crops here are skewiff, but the action is good and the colours are great. I know it is hard, but the backgrounds are also "busy". It all depends on where you are seated as to the view gained. You may also benefit from a smaller F stop here (eg larger aperture), possibly giving a blurred background effect, but this too depends on the lens you are using.

Ozi.