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August 20 EHSC Horse Trial...mostlyEvery August the Erie Hunt & Saddle Club holds a horse trial. It's a two day event, just like the Lost Hounds Horse Trial held every June. These two events are held on the same property. The August trial is sometimes longer, as it also now boasts an Intermediate Division where most only go as high as Preliminary. Differences lie in maximum fence heights, complexity of the jumps and the number of total jumping efforts over the entire course. This year there were actually more Intermediate entries than Preliminary, which was a surprise to many I think. Unlike the beautiful sunny weather we were blessed with at the June trial, this event was beset with dark overcast skies, somewhat chilly temperatures and off and on rain on Saturday. Overall lighting conditions were not the greatest for pictures so unfortunately the ones I shot did not come out as good as some of the June photos. Still, I managed to get some pretty cool shots, especially as I was focused around one of the water jump areas for a change.
On a general note I am still experimenting a bit with settings on this camera, which I got a great amount of practice with this weekend! Constantly changing lighting conditions resulted in me using almost completely manual controls and I was constantly adjusting to try and get good lighting without pictures being too dark or too light. Needless to say, sometimes this worked, sometimes not. I do have a photo editing program however and some of the brighter ones I was able to darken a small bit to make the images more presentable to the eye. What i have posted on this site is a little less than half of the total shots I took this weekend. There are others that are good too, but I was trying to select a range of good images to put on the site to save space. I also removed the old pictures i had of a schooling show and the Winona Horse Trial. For the latter, the images did not come out all that well, it was my first time using the camera at an actual horse trial so most of the images were blurred. Also posted this evening are pictures from the July South Farm recognized horse trial held on July 2nd. Many of the images from that show are quite nice as well, it was a good sunny day for the most part. |
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