David Young offered: A spectacular action photo!
Subject: [LRflex] After much consideration...
I have debated showing this picture... it was one of the last from
the Deadmans Creek Rodeo, and it plagued with all sorts of technical
problems. The light is poor, as it was very late in the day, but
things were made worse by the fact that there was so much dust on my
lens that contrast was reduced to almost nothing. As a result, I had
to play with the curves to the point where the shadows blocked up, in
order to get anything remotely looking like a decent shot.
Throw in a background that's far too busy, and you have a recipe for
photographic disaster.
So, why show the shot at all?
Simply because of the bull. He was the nastiest bull I've ever
seen. He threw his rider in a way that I've never seen (see the
picture!) and then attacked first one bull-fighter, then chased the
other out of the arena!
But, it's the spectacular dismount, that saves this shot from the trash.
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David mon ami,
Ok one more time from me to you when you shoot something like this and
you present all the negatives in writing before anyone opens the photo
site.
Stop doing that!!!!! If I have to tell you again I'm coming to Logan
Lake and give you smack on the side of the head!!! Gently of course,
after all, we are friends. BUT~!!
You present an excellent action shot, then proceed to tear it apart
from technical aspects.... To hell with the techie stuff! It's the
action and moment of capturing this action. That's what this is all
about, heck a few tweaks in PhotoShop and it's another front page
rodeo photograph!
Unfortunately on my screen it appears slightly dark. Never the less it
appears there's lots of stuff to see if you were to lighten it
slightly. Maybe a touch of fiddling would do it. But then it's your
shot, your call. I'm just being a mean assed photo editor looking at a
damn fine action photograph!
From an action point of view? Man, it doesn't get any better.
Oh and the dust? Hell don't worry about it, as it creates the rodeo
mood and there for photographic enhancement! J The dust on occasion
adds an attractive look to the photo. Been there and looked through
viewfinder and seen this sort of golden glow light haze effect, shot
it because it looked cool. Then looked at the front element on the 560
and it was covered in dust you could draw your initials in.
Sort of blew it off, well as much as would go and immediately shot the
same scene. In the view finder it didn't look quite as attractive,
however I had cleaned off the dust because you have to have sparkly
clean lenses or the picture will be ruined! Really?
GUESS WHAT? Later on the light table with the photo editor, the "
Kodachrome from the well covered dust on lens photo" compared to the
shot without dust................ The dust covered shot won hands
down! The clean lens somewhat sparkly image? It never saw the light
of day! Which only proves, people who are constantly cleaning their
lenses are in many cases wasting their time instead of shooting!
I've heard this dust stuff so often from techie people "oh my goodness
you can't shoot with dust on the lens it'll spoil your picture and
it'll make marks all over your film!" I now tell them, "get over it,
shoot the picture and get on with life." Blow it off, use your shirt
tail to rub the lens clean and keep shooting!
It's all about the ACTION!! This photograph, look how well you've
captured this magnificent moment.! So no more negative comments such
as we've seen written. WHY? Because in effect you are putting yourself
down for absolutely no reason whatsoever! Potential viewers are
negatively brain damaged before they even see the picture because of
your written comments!
Keep shooting this rodeo stuff as you've shown and you should be able
to turn a dollar or two from print sales. Not to forget the published
work !
Cheers,
ted
