Northern Ireland Horse Show

Borderfox

I am working for a magazine at the NIHS this weekend and went up today to get some shots of the shows that were on. Looked great inside with plenty of atmospheric lighting and a large spotlight. Not really too hard to shoot, used the 5d with the 85mm f1.2 and the 1dmk3 with the 135mm f2 both using spot metering and ISO values of around 400 to 3200. I shot in RAW and small jpeg which worked out very well as the small jpeg is very fast to go through but still with the backup of the full raw file, I must remember to use this more often. I had a look through the jpegs and heres a few that I like, feel free to comment

The Venue, Oddessey Arena
Canon 5d and 15mm f2.8 fisheye


Jean Francois Pignon
Canon 5d and 85mm f1.2


Zaporozhian Cossacks
Canon 5d and 85mm f1.2


Zaporozhian Cossacks
Canon 1dmk3 and 135mm f2


Jean Francois Pignon
Canon 5d and 85mm f1.2

shepthedog

Absolutely brilliant work.. Love the last shot.. Look forward to seeing the rest..

ThOnda

#### me in the eyes - brilliant stuff!!!
The last one is amazing. Well, you are real PRO.

Borderfox

Heres the gear bag from today. 1dmk3 with Sigma 120-300 f2.8 in the centre, 5d to the left with 15mm fisheye. On the right is the 85mm f1.2 and the 135mm f2, about 50gb of cards and a 580exII for presentations. Also have an Epson P3000 for checking and backing up files. Extra batteries in the front pocket, the bag is a Lowepro Mini Trekker classic. I will probably change the 120-300 for the Canon 70-200 f2.8IS for tomorrow, I have all the really close up shots that I need and the arena isnt that big to get across.

Paulw

Stunning photos. I can see the use of that fisheye now.

Love those images. Hope they're big sellers for you.

Borderfox

I will do a shot of the arena on Sunday when it is full and I will bring the remotes for the 5d and fisheye for the Wall tomorrow

Thanks..

OnLooker

Brilliant stuff.

Borderfox

I wanted some really close frame filling shots of riders and thats why the 120-300 came with me, this shot was at 221mm and f2.8 @ iso 3200 +1/3 of a stop and one run through Noise ninja. The Horses head is oof but it was the rider I had the focus point on, spot metering too.

AnCatDubh

absolutely wow factor stuff. enjoyable to review so it must have been some fun to take. well done. great results.

YogiBear

Wow, I love them! Well done to you!!!!

Borderfox

It was very enjoyable to shoot, all jobs I am doing have that element to them even the small shows or a portrait. The enjoyable part of the show in Belfast for me personally is to take the showstopper shots, I really enjoy using the fast primes too which helps.

kensutz

Great shots Keith. Makes me want a fisheye asap.

ttcomet

Some really great shots there.

I posted this link before not sure if you seen it. It basically lets you shoot just a normal raw and extract out the embedded .jpg really fast (does a large folder in seconds). It may save you some space on the cards.

Although with 50gb's to play with maybe you will be okay

Borderfox

Thanks ttcomet, I will give it a shot..but as you say I should have enough in cards and the Epson has 40gb too !!

Borderfox

Heres some shots from the Saturday evening performance



Kath Hardman & Spice


Cian O'Connor jumps the wall


Damien Griffin & Ellen Whittaker joint winners of the Puissance competition

OnLooker

The dog photo is brilliant. Love it

Borderfox

They had a really good act but I thought they were a bit lost in the larger arena, was ok for me though with the 70-200.

Borderfox

City-Exile

Ellen Whittaker, yum!
That is all!

Borderfox

City-Exile wrote: »

Ellen Whittaker, yum!
That is all!

I hear ya