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RE: [RC] [RC] Riding with a Camera - Libby & Quentin Llop DVMI take all my pictures on the Fly ( Fly is my horse). I went to a camera store and took pictures of a running digital stopwatch until I found one that had minimal shutter lag and could freeze action with motion in low light. I take it foxhunting as well as on endurance rides. I keep a cord around my neck and slide the camera into a pocket or belt pouch. I also selected for a camera that I can deploy with one hand. Go to my website www.invernessfarm.com , click on foxhunters for sale, then click on Xerez for a picture of horses trotting taken from a trotting horse at about 6:15 am. BTW the "Full Cry " video was also taken with this camera. It is a Sony Cyber-shot, but after 2 years there are probably more and better out there now. Libby -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dream Weaver Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 12:52 PM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] [RC] Riding with a Camera I know that there are a few of you that ride with your camera and take the most wonderful pictures. I was wondering what type of camera you use and do you stop to take the picture or do you take them "on the fly"? I'll have to look at my camera to see what model of Olympus it is. It is a 7.1 megapixel camera with zoom. I got it from costco.com (don't think they carried it in the store tho) I always try to choose cameras that can be operated with one hand. That way I can keep the other hand on the reins. You really do need a horse that will stop and stand still. The newer digital cameras all seem to have a big of a delay, so your horse needs to be able to stand still for that period of time, it can be tricky getting the timing just right. I think it's good training for any horse, to learn to stop and stand anywhere you want, in any situation. It can take awhile. I have enough blurry ear-cam shots to prove that ;) My camera has a rechargeable battery, luckily the same kind as my previous Olympus had (the same model that Jackie Floyd uses), and also uses the same xd memory card. I like to have an extra battery and memory card so that you can switch them out if you need to. I really need to buy a 1 gig card rather than the 512 or whatever I have now, as I can fill that up fast taking those large photos, as well as video that it does. As far as how to take the photos -- main thing is to stop the horse. I usually am quick on the draw - whipping the camera out with one hand and pulling the horse to a stop with the other, and/or turning the horse around so that I can take photos of riders that are behind me (yes really, sometimes there are riders behind me! lol) Then as soon as the button clicks, I push the button that closes the lense back up and stick the camera back into my pouch. I made a little polarfleece pouch for it, used a piece of wire from a coathanger and shaped the opening of the pouch with that, so that it stays open and I can get the camera in and out with one hand. If I see something that I think I will really like, I try to get two or three shots, sometimes moving only a couple of feet or so. You just never know how the lighting will work, or not -- I am always experimenting and taking photos in all types of lights and directions because sometimes the ones that you don't think will turn out are often the best ones. Besides, it's easy to delete them if they don't. Here are where some of my photos are: http://sunriseranchrides.com/ http://xprides.com/photos.html including a few videos. I'm still figuring out the best way to do that. I think to do video it's probably better to be off the horse, or else it looks like the Blair Witch Project. You can see in some of the Bryce video I took how close I was to the edge of a cliff, and once I nearly got knocked off of the horse by a branch, so it's probably not really safe to be video'ing from horseback on certain trails. :P Here is an example of the zoom. This is a photo of Charlie Robinson on the Blue Fly Trail at Bryce. regular: http://www.xprides.com/Bryce_2005/pages/P1010113.html and zoomed in: http://www.xprides.com/Bryce_2005/pages/P1010112.html Once you take the photos, it really helps to have photo editing software that will batch resize the photos. If you want to put them onto the web you really need to reduce them in size or they will take too long to load. I've been using Photo Elf, and it's great, easy to use and fast. Hope that helps! Karen =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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