Rodeo - Horse and Rider are airbourne

[steve@slikphoto]

In my pursuit of continually improving my photographic technique I spent an after 4 hours photographing anything that moved.

Hopefully this one will move some of you. I particularly like the shadow underneath.

[wamplers]

Good timing. I'd like to see the background more out of focus. Perhaps if you'd shot at f/2.8 instead of f/5.6 you'd had better background blur (I'm assuming the 50-150 f/2.8 or Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 was used rather than the 24-105 f/4L, in which case I would have shot at f/4).

[GadgetRick]

Originally Posted by wamplers

Good timing. I'd like to see the background more out of focus. Perhaps if you'd shot at f/2.8 instead of f/5.6 you'd had better background blur (I'm assuming the 50-150 f/2.8 or Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 was used rather than the 24-105 f/4L, in which case I would have shot at f/4).

Exactly the thing I would have said (with less detail ). Excellent capture!

[steve@slikphoto]

Thanks for comments. I was using the Sigma 50-150 f2.8 but as the rider was so close I had the lense set at 64mm for this shot and thought that the depth of field would have been to shallow. I guess it's all about practice and more practice.

thanks again.