Barrel Racer

[George McGovern]

[Drum]

1. Superb

[George McGovern]

3. Thank You Drum!

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Wow, fabulous photos!

Those barrel racers are an amazing team! Skill and bravery.

[George McGovern]

4. They Are Diamond_Dog! Thank You!

(And thanks so much for "posting" Sophie.)

[AndyS]

5. The third and last is all ya' need. You absolutely nailed it with the

horse mane, rider hair, facial expression on both horse and rider and then brought it all together with the matching body language.

Only way to improve it would be an arena with clean background and performance outfit for the rider.

Had a buddy that made a nice added income by shooting these at rodeos.

[George McGovern]

6. Thank You AndyS!

Your buddy must've been a good shooter.

I wasn't supposed to be there that day - heard about the competition and just wanted to see if I could get some good pictures.

[AndyS]

7. The keep rate on this kinda shooting is verry low.

I'd shoot a hundred or so exposures of each ride in an event like this. Ya might want to explore the capture mode. It starts buffering shots as soon as you lock focus and stores 15-25 shots BEFORE you actually make an exposure. It's a freakin time machine. Miss the timing on the perfect shot? No more.

[George McGovern]

9. Hundred or so sounds about right.

I've read about capture mode. I don't, however, shoot barrel racing anymore. This was a one-time opportunity years ago using my old Nikon D2Xs and a D300.

Now if I had a 400 mm lens the capture mode would probably work well with birds in flight. How capture works seems just amazing, like you say, a freakin time machine.

[3Hotdogs]

11. How do I get capture mode on a D800 with Nikon 150 - 500 lens?

[George McGovern]

12. 3 Hotdogs - AndyS is talking about a feature on Olympus mirrorless micro-four thirds cameras.

It's called Pro Capture. I shoot Olympus now myself; I do not know if Nikon offers anything like it. It looks like you have a very nice set-up, long reach with that lens. Do you have any photos to post?

[3Hotdogs]

13. Yeah, I've tried to figure out how to post but its too complicated for me. Du directions go by me.

I forwarded a photo to someone who entered it on one of the photo contests. My photo came in D.U. third place.... not bad.

That must have been 10 years ago.

[George McGovern]

14. Nice. Not bad at all.

If you'd have a photo to share on DU, you could email it to me and I'd be happy to post it.

[3Hotdogs]

17. Thank you for the offer. I will take advantage of it.

My stuff is good but it is not great.

I guess I need an email address.

[George McGovern]

18. Good Deal. I just sent you a PM with that address.

[soothsayer]

8. Kickin' up that dust! You can almost taste it

Those are fun!

[George McGovern]

10. At the event you could. Yuck!

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Thanks soothsayer. It was a blast "shooting" the gals and their well-trained horses.

[myccrider]

15. Excellent shots!

The bottom picture is the money shot, imo. Both profiles almost identical, the sense of speed gathering, both looking toward to the next barrel and gathering themselves for the run.

[George McGovern]

16. Thanks myccrider!