Horse Races - Panning - For Grahame

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Christina,

All but #6 work for me, as you say, 'the odds' of 6 different heads in an image all being at coincident minimal motion blur for the same 1/60s is just too great - not impossible, just very unlikely. Nothing wrong in trying occasionally though, eh?

In bold below, I have slightly amended the words of your number one to be less specific; (as I know you know) there are two different reasons for undesired subject softness; focus/DoF and motion blur

So now I know that when I try again I need to strive for (and cull the images that don't meet the criteria)

1. The heads of the horse and jockey need to be of decent sharpness (which likely means that I should try for shots with just 1 or 2 horses, 3 is just too hard to do)
2. horses with dancing blurred legs
3. blurry background
4. room to move

And if the above criteria are not met I will delete the photo, no matter how beautiful the horse is.

Now that sounds like a good plan!

If only I could do the same with my birds
Alas, I keep far too many, the usual excuse being "I'll keep that one so I remember that this combination of settings doesn't work" or "I'll keep that for ID purposes" or "I'll keep that because it's the only shot I have of this species", but they just clutter the folder and dilute the slightly better ones. Yeah, I know, I should be more rigorous applying star ratings, then filter on them to show only the good ones, but I frequently lose interest while going through them all, then none ever see the light of day (or CiC)

You obviously don't seem to have the same problem, you're more driven than I am to succeed and I admire you for that quality. Keep it up.

Good work,

[Brownbear]

Hi Dave,

Thank you for taking the time to fix that. I need to me more careful with my terminology. And yes, I will stick with single or double racing horses until I can manage more shots.

I still have a ton of images to delete and I have yet to use the star ratings, perhaps I should try that... A good plan but the reality is that I need to set a schedule for myself to delete images, one week after uploading. Of course I delete the worst ones right off the bat, but not enough of them and they pile up in my computer. I expect that I still have a few blurry pelicans from 3 years ago that I kept around for sentimental reasons..
Thank you Dave.