The photographer is looking for thoughtful feedback on the image as a whole, especially around the areas noted below.
Feedback Focus: Artistic + Technical
About This Image
I thought I’d post this one because I love the coloration of the horse, and it confirms in one image what Muybridge did with 12 cameras triggered by threads as a horse ran in front of a white sheet in 1878. Here’s a nice article.
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This is not a pose I would normally choose to process and post as it’s kind of a midpoint in the stride with no good sense of motion. However, I decided to do so because of the background to it.
Technical Details
Camera: SONY ILCE-1
Lens: FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
Focal length: 200mm
Shutter speed: 1/2500s
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 4000
I immediately thought of Muybridge! Yeah, it’s more of a formal canter maybe? I’m not an equestrian, but the posture of both horse and rider feels very upright. That tail is special though!
ML
Great shot of a very forward canter showing that moment of suspension. The horse is eager…and by the amount of tack could be a little too eager. It looks to me they are about to go into an extended canter or gathering up for the next jump.
I think there is plenty of motion, Dennis. A clear view of all the legs and the tail swish add to the movement. I think we worry too much and we get to be harsh critics of our own photography.
The course looks great. Just a little unsure of the jump above the horse’s head.
The article is a good one too!
Anything with a photographic history reference always catches my eye and full marks for spelling his name correctly!
I too am no equestrian but I like the pose you have captured and frozen. Your choice of 1/2500 obviously eliminates any motion blur - we can theorise as to whether Muybridge would have liked the motion blur he inevitably had in his shots - I like your crisper focus but am left wondering what a 10x slower SS might have delivered
Step one for me was to remove the tree behind the horse’s ear as it was catching my eye
I then played a bit with path blur on a cut out of the horse and rider, displaced it a bit backwards, and stuck the unadulterated horse and rider back on top.
I’ve seen this double exposure type effect in cycling action shots - and I only thought about it following the Muybridge reference. Only intended as an interesting aside
