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Looking for Eight when they pull that gate
Looking for Eight when they pull that gate
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Challenge: Time Lapse (Advanced Editing VI ("Time Lapse")*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Warkworth, New Zealand
Date: Jan 2, 2008
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/2000 second
Galleries: Animals, Digital Art
Date Uploaded: Jan 2, 2008

 Hand-held shot at the Annual Warkworth Rodeo. I had this challenge in mind so tried to get a sequence of shots that might work. This was the closest I could come. I'd prefer the horses to be spaced out more but I guess they had more on their minds than posing for photos at the time :)

I was trying for bull riding to start with but was shooting in RAW and the bursts were not lasting long enough. I switched to JPG for the bronco riding and this is what I got. I didn't use one frame from the nine I got and that would have been a horse between the first and second in the shot. The pose was great as the rider has his hand in the air nicely but it obscures too much of the first horse.

The title was suggested by scarbrd and is a line from a song (you can google for it if you like). At first I didn't notice there are eight horses in the shot and that is the same number of seconds the riders aim to stay on the bronco.

Editing Steps:
* Load 9 frames into photoshop as seperate layers
* Align frames as there were small variations due to hand-held shooting
* Clone minor elements from background frame that would be visible in final image
* Mask out background in frame 2-9 (frame 2 not used in final image as it was overlapping too much with first horse but it was a nice hand-in-the-air pose)
* Levels
* Merge visible
* Shadow/Hilight
* Hue/Saturation
* Shadow/Hilight with fence at left and stand at right masked off
* Noise reduction
* Hue/Saturation
* Curves
* Flatten
* Resize
* USM on horses and stands
* Add border
* Save for web
* Hope I'm not DQ'd as these new rules are confusing :)

Statistics
Place: 12 out of 84
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Avg (commenters): 7.5909
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Views since voting: 2441
Views during voting: 732
Votes: 299
Comments: 27
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 01/14/2008 03:52:05 AM
Underrated by a mile, best shot in the challenge IMO
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 01/14/2008 12:29:25 AM
congrats . well done . Good luck in round 2
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/13/2008 09:52:26 AM
Great subject for this challenge, nicely done.
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 01/13/2008 02:39:34 AM
This is awesome!
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 01/12/2008 09:27:43 PM
I think i would have liked it better if it was just every second one...seems a bit crowded. Never the less, I like how continuous the horse's motion is:)
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 01/12/2008 01:48:20 PM
Gotta be southern hemisphere. Good luck, this is one of the best.
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 01/11/2008 05:33:59 PM
This really shows the bucking of the horse. Very hard to get the editing right on a shot like this. Nice, clean, and crisp.
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 01/11/2008 03:10:57 PM
I Love This Plenty of movement and well exposed
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 01/11/2008 12:42:35 PM
Very cool shot. The only thing that would make it better, is if the cowboy was bucked off the horse. But, I wont be too picky :) 8 from me.
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 01/10/2008 07:31:06 PM
I really like this.
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 01/10/2008 02:59:34 PM
great photo. lots of action. i like it.
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 01/09/2008 11:31:19 AM
Wow great job on this one!!
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 01/08/2008 11:10:00 PM
Great shot
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 01/08/2008 12:05:21 PM
Well captured and well processed - pretty much faultlessly so. It's a shame that it looks as though one of the shots alone might have been more exciting that the whole lot :-)
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 01/08/2008 07:55:55 AM
This is a great shot. If you are receiving comments from the same people that commented on mine, then they are probably going to say you have too many frames bunched together. Unfortunately they will look past the 8 riders you have and the title and how it all ties in with the theme of Rodeo riding. For that I say forget them!


Great image, and the only rodeo one I have seen. Best of luck with my 9.
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 01/08/2008 12:54:38 AM
Amarillo by morning . . . . ;-)
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 01/07/2008 11:39:56 PM
Woo-hoo! Cool piece. Great use of the vibrant colors to bring us into the piece.
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 01/07/2008 11:39:31 PM
GeneralE: that's not a single motion. that horse is all over the place.

muckpond: of course not! what do you think they get paid for?

GeneralE: horses do not work for money.

muckpond: What? What?

sher: what's wrong, muckie?

muckpond: They Pay Horses, Don't They?
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 01/07/2008 09:54:27 PM
Ahhhh...this is nice. After seeing so many images that don't really have much to do with motion, here's one that captures a bit of the essence of this sport! Each frame is an important moment in those eight seconds. Nice idea and well executed.
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 01/07/2008 07:40:37 PM
Great colors and subject matter. Back to bump you up to 8.
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 01/07/2008 06:44:46 PM
Pretty neat. Maybe just a bit more separation between 'frames' would work even better, but I know there's only so much real estate to work with.
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 01/07/2008 03:46:41 PM
Very interesting to see all the positions and contortions the horse is using to buck that rider. Nicely put together.
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 01/07/2008 01:44:01 PM
That is some nice action! good luck in the challenge. I like how you included 8 shots too.
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 01/07/2008 09:23:21 AM
Nice job! Great action going here. Love the reds!
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 01/07/2008 03:40:08 AM
Nice sequence. The lighting is a little flat which lets it down somewhat.
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 01/07/2008 12:33:00 AM
wow...great action image....hope the person riding the horse (and the horse) gets to see it...
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 01/07/2008 12:18:52 AM
Great composition - well put together and nice time-lapse sequence -10-
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