A Flash of Light

[JimFox]

Out where I trail run they do some Equestrian training from time to time. I saw it as I drove up to the Trailhead so I grabbed my Sony A6400 to go with me when I ran and I took a short break to shoot this horse for a few minutes with the low angled sun.

I had been shooting faster at first, but then I switched down to 1/40th of a sec to get a bit of motion blur in the image to help the image to show some of the speed.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[Amy Nelson]

Great shot of this young horse feeling her speed!
I really like the lighting and how it picks up the highlights in the mane and tail.

 

[JimFox]

Great shot of this young horse feeling her speed!
I really like the lighting and how it picks up the highlights in the mane and tail.

Thanks so much Amy! It was fun seeing the light flirt with the horse like it did.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Really good light and panning skills. The oof background works well, but the legs should either be frozen or more blurred in my opinion.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Good light to capture the pony. Nicely panned to render the background blurred. I'd personally prefer a tad faster shutter here.

 

[AlanLichty]

Interesting light but this type of subject is not something I have shot before and not high on my radar screen to try soon. Like Jameel I would prefer a much faster shutter speed for this level of movement in the subject.

 

[Amy Earl]

Nice photo, Jim! I like the motion blur, it works well because the horse's head and body is mostly sharp. It reminds me of last time I tried shooting a running horse with this effect - a slower shutter speed and panning. It's difficult but the result can be really cool!

 

[JimFox]

Nice photo, Jim! I like the motion blur, it works well because the horse's head and body is mostly sharp. It reminds me of last time I tried shooting a running horse with this effect - a slower shutter speed and panning. It's difficult but the result can be really cool!

Thanks so much Amy. I was really happy with this and how it turned out. If the whole horse is sharp and the background blurred I believe you lose some sense of motion. So I liked keeping the head and body sharp while letting the legs have some blur. The legs could have been blurred a bit more I suppose, but it’s a narrow line between blurred feet and ghosted feet. So I prefer it to be more like this.