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dressage rider
dressage rider
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Challenge: Motion Blur II (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix A345
Location: Dressage barn
Date: Jun 22, 2006
Aperture: f4.7
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/45 sec
Date Uploaded: Jun 22, 2006

 A dressage rider taking a riding lesson on her mare...I happened to have just finished riding, had my little Fuji camera with me and took a few pictures of her...didn't like the color image as much as a b&w conversion: cropped, levels, curves, cloned out top of riding crop and a few highlights in her breeches, usm, brightess/contrast. Also, just because I know something will be said about the rider's face being blurred, it is important to realize that as I panned the camera with the horse, the rider was sitting in the saddle and relatively immobile, yet her head was moving with the motion of the trot.

Statistics
Place: 115 out of 177
Avg (all users): 5.0995
Avg (commenters): 5.1250
Avg (participants): 4.8243
Avg (non-participants): 5.2598
Views since voting: 712
Views during voting: 314
Votes: 201
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/02/2006 05:32:39 PM
Something in this photo needs to be in focus, like the rider or the horse's face. As is, the motion doesn't enhance the photo because it just looks accidental.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/02/2006 02:52:01 PM
an excellant photo but nothing is in focus
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/02/2006 12:16:12 AM
A nice sense of motion with the backround and foreleg blur.

I can't help but feel that it might have worked better in colour. There would surely have been some very rich browns and greens to work with.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/29/2006 06:50:43 PM
awwww, such a beautiful horse!!! i'm a sucker for horses... 10 for you :-D
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/28/2006 07:17:59 AM
Nice capture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2006 01:36:17 AM
Either the subject or the background should be blurred, but not both.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2006 11:49:15 AM
Quite nice. Tones are very nice. I wonder if a tiny adjustment to shutter speed would have put the rider in sharper focus while still maintaining blur on the horse's legs. Easier said than done, no doubt. Just a thought. I like to have some sort of stasis in a motion picture by way of counterpoint.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2006 12:50:54 AM
Would give you a higher score if the subject was in focus.
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 06/26/2006 12:38:59 AM
Nice looking horse.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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