Every year Turf
Paradise in Phoenix offers up camel and ostrich racing, this time between
races six and seven. Oh yes, there was
horse racing too.
Eric Wilson from Indianapolis |
Great question!
It made me stop and think what settings I prefer when photographing at
Turf Paradise.
I use a Canon 5D Mark III and my lens of choice today
was the Canon 70-300mm. I brought along
the Tamron 1.4x extender, which I ended up not using very much. The 300mm was reach enough. My normal perch is in the upper deck, in the
shade (it was hot and sunny).
I tended to shoot wide-open f/2.8 or so, ISO 100, and
1/1000 of a second shutter speed to freeze the action. On a few of the shots I used MacPhun’s Focus2Pro (to add bokeh or out of focus
to some elements) and SnapHeal Pro (to get rid of extraneous objects in the
photo). On a few other photos I used
both Photomatrix Pro and Google’s HDR Efex
program. I will tell you sometimes when
I’m not all that happy with a shot, I apply some HDR toning to see if I can
save it!
Jim Patterson
A short video clip here...
And, here are all of my photos from Turf Paradise!
Next up for me is shooting the Cave Creek Rodeo again, then the North Valley Relay for Life located on the Paradise Valley Community College campus.
Until My Next Adventure,
See You On Down The Road!
A short video clip here...
And, here are all of my photos from Turf Paradise!
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