Off to the Polo... Raaa!

nero120 · 2 Aug 2006 at 02:14

Here's some shots I got from the Cartier Internation Polo match last Sunday:

Opinions welcome!

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MichaelG · 2 Aug 2006 at 19:15

Well the horseys look pretty?

bigredshark · 2 Aug 2006 at 19:18

on first glance they look good, pretty sharp and pretty good saturation. It's just a pity it wasn't a nicer day but i suppose you can't help that!

nero120 · 2 Aug 2006 at 19:29

bigredshark said:
on first glance they look good, pretty sharp and pretty good saturation. It's just a pity it wasn't a nicer day but i suppose you can't help that!

Thank you!

On the contrary it was a beautiful sunny day! I found that if the sky was exposed correctly the horses were black as sin! So I tried to expose correctly for the action and let the sky blow.

It was my first sports photo jaunt so Im relatively pleased how it came out. That olympus 40-150mm lens is damn good!

bigredshark · 2 Aug 2006 at 19:36

Interesting colour in that case, it appeared to me to look as if it was quite cloudy, in bright sunlight I'd have expected more vivid colours I think, but they're still good shots. hmm, goes to play with photoshop....

bigredshark · 2 Aug 2006 at 19:42

Hmm, any better? Hope you don't mind!

benjo plz. · 2 Aug 2006 at 19:45

nero120 said:

Is it me or do that horses leggs look wierd?

nero120 · 2 Aug 2006 at 20:56

bigredshark said:
Hmm, any better? Hope you don't mind!

Not at all, that is better.

You know, the pics look much better on my cameras lcd than they do in Rawshooter - much brighter and colourful.

nero120 · 2 Aug 2006 at 20:56

Phnom_Penh said:
Is it me or do that horses leggs look wierd?

I think it was in mid-turn at the time, so I guess it looks wierd as the horse is turning away on a wide arc.

bigredshark · 2 Aug 2006 at 21:11

nero120 said:
Not at all, that is better.

You know, the pics look much better on my cameras lcd than they do in Rawshooter - much brighter and colourful.

well for future reference, it was mostly the shadow/highlight tool in photoshot, a little colour balance, some hue and saturation and a moderate unsharp mask in photoshop CS...

themask70 · 3 Aug 2006 at 17:28

Nice shots, they all seem very sharp, and the colours look really nice, good job