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Indoor Equestrian

Postby shakey on Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:01 am

Taken at the indoor equestrian centre at Jindabyne last weekend. Marginal lighting at best. First two taken during the nightime session, last two during the day. All shot using 70-200 VR at 2.8 and 1600 ISO. AF-C with dynamic AF. Noise Ninja to remove noise and then Smart Sharpen to put it back in :lol:

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Shutter speed 1/100 at 140 mm, VR on

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Shutter speed 1/60 at 86 mm VR on

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Shutter 1/640 at 200 mm VR off

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Shutter 1/400 at 155 mm VR off
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Postby Sir Tristram on Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:06 am

I like the last one out of this group. Is there a reason you had VR off in the 4th shot as the writing on the jump itself seems to have camera shake or could it just be my eyes?. Anyhow I seem to have my eyes distracted by it.

Good stuff.
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Postby PiroStitch on Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:09 am

The third one does it for me - nice and sharp with decent exposure.
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Postby bindiblue on Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:32 am

Hi Shakey,,

Great shots,, my pic is the 3rd one, well captured,

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Postby shakey on Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:15 am

Sir Tristram wrote:Is there a reason you had VR off in the 4th shot as the writing on the jump itself seems to have camera shake or could it just be my eyes?


Having VR on does cause a little shutter lag and I wanted to capture the height of action over the jump

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Postby Laurie on Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:07 am

Shakey.
nice photos.
im going to be doing some Horse Event for my aunty soon and was just wondering if you had any tips on how to make the best of what i have.

the venue is somewhere out west and at the moment all i have is D70s with 28-105 with SB800 :(
would hte 105 be enough with ISO 400? or should i go even higher?
any tips would be apprecaited :)
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Postby shakey on Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:49 pm

Laurie wrote: im going to be doing some Horse Event for my aunty soon and was just wondering if you had any tips on how to make the best of what i have.

the venue is somewhere out west and at the moment all i have is D70s with 28-105 with SB800 :(
would hte 105 be enough with ISO 400? or should i go even higher?
any tips would be apprecaited :)


Should be able to get some good shots with that lens but you may miss having a zoom which gets a bit longer (200 mm). I don't use a flash around horses in case it spooks a horse. You never know. Your ISO reallly depends upon the available light. If this event is indoors you will need high ISO (like 1600). If outside depends upon light. If I can shoot 200 I do. Shutter speed depends upon what some of events you do. SJing would need around 1/400 plus to freeze action at the long end of your lens. Hacking events can be shoot at less than this. For SJing I'm currently using AF-C plus dynamic AF for focussing. Try and get nice backgrounds if possible.
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