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Anyone ever cover dog racing or horse racing ? I tried my hand at dog agility trials today and had mixed results , wondering what you used for settings . thanks
Rick

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I've done both Rick, I set the aperture I want in aperture priority and watch my shutter speed stays above 1/500s.

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Love it !

Wish I could bend my legs up like that! :rofl:

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Great shot Iain. Since you were standing in front of the dog, did it clear you too?

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:lol: Maybe he has it attached to him!


Eric had some nice horse eventing pictures as well.

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If you look carefully at the top of the dog, you can see a harness with a d-ring at the top. It looks like there may be an invisible wire holding the dog up:doh:

Seems od that the d-ring is extending up rather than laying flat. :rofl:

What kind of trick photography is this Iain? Is this the type of thing you have resorted to since going over to Canon?? :no:

Sorry Iain, couldn't help myself - it is still a great photo.

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Squarerigger wrote: If you look carefully at the top of the dog, you can see a harness with a d-ring at the top. It looks like there may be an invisible wire holding the dog up:doh:

Seems od that the d-ring is extending up rather than laying flat. :rofl:

What kind of trick photography is this Iain? Is this the type of thing you have resorted to since going over to Canon?? :no:

Sorry Iain, couldn't help myself - it is still a great photo.
Next you will be telling us that Canon lenses selectively delete image content (the wire) so that they spare their users the pain of learning Photoshop.
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What metering mode did you use ? I'll post my pics tonight . I loaded them on my site . I used program then shutter . I foun out corgis and border collies are faster than I thought

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heres a few

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sorry so big , I'm not happy with the quickness of the corgi and how hes outta focus

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miss takes  part 3

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last miss takes

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Well I love the Corgi. :bigthumbs:

Corgies are very hard to train for agility, especially the pole weaving and jumps. I know, we had several Corgis which we trained for agility with mixed success.

Avoiding distracting pink handlers is hard. Different angle perhaps?

Well done Rick! Nice to see a 'different' activity covered.



BTW Rick, if you need to show several images in one post, upload them to an Album in your gallery then link to them from there. That means you can mix them with text and have several in one post.





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I really like the last one Rick. Well done.

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Really nice work, Rick

You should be pretty happy with the results you are getting !!!!

Tom

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Rick, I love those shots. I bet even if the focus is where you want it any of the dog owners would love a copy, and probably pay you for one, if one of those was my dog I would!

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 Thanks Everyone . I always ask the wife for her opinion on pics but she might tell me what I want to hear an not a real opinion ha ha ha . I thing I'm going to try again and crank speed up and but it on center metering . See what happens . I guess we are our own harshest critic

ok last 1 from the marathon i recently covered. I got bored and found a dog



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Hi Rick,

I showed Sharon, my ex wife the pix, it was her who trained the Corgies, she was very impressed, especially the Corgi image. Its actually really sharp, look at the eye... The motion blur of the rear of the dog is OK, if it's too sharp it looks artificial. Think of aeroplane or helicopter images with frozen propellors or rotors? You need a bit of motion blur to add life to the image.

I have edited your post above to show the image as you intended.

The method is to go to your album,

Find the image you want to include in the post,



Select it, then at the right hand side there are some boxes,

Click once in the one you want, in this case the second one down Marked in yellow, the number of boxes available changes depending on the size of the image in the album,

'Copy', then paste into your post, it really is simple.

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Thank you , I suffer from computer illiteracy rather often .

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ArcticRick wrote:
Thank you, I suffer from computer illiteracy rather often.
You are welcome, I know it's not obvious, Steve posted a set of instructions for the original album when we first moved here, it needs updating.

Will address that ASAP.

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One from Brentwood Dog Show

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Andy how did you set up your camera what metering etc

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ArcticRick wrote: Andy how did you set up your camera what metering etc D2H with Sigma 70-200 f2.8, ISO 200.....set to manual and took meter reading off grass.
Number of members here don't recommend setting this lens @ f2.8 as can be a bit soft so adjusted to suit.
Think I could really do with upgrading D2H, but until I win the lottery Ill stick with it :-)

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Andy wrote:
ArcticRick wrote: Andy how did you set up your camera what metering etc D2H with Sigma 70-200 f2.8, ISO 200.....set to manual and took meter reading off grass.
Number of members here don't recommend setting this lens @ f2.8 as can be a bit soft so adjusted to suit.
Think I could really do with upgrading D2H, but until I win the lottery Ill stick with it :-)
Forgot main thing.....1,250th @ f5.0


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