As an East Yorkshire Equestrian Photographer, my favourite event to shoot by far is show jumping. To capture an effective image takes good technical skills and an innate sense of timing that can only be developed by watching the sport and practicing, practicing and practicing some more.Today I covered the Bank Holiday Show for the Cottingham Parks Yard in Cottingham, East Yorkshire. There was a great turn out, the weather was awesome and the sense of competition made for some really exciting eventing.
This is one of my favourite images of the day on a fence that lent itself to consistently good shots due to the excellent approach angle and the cloud in the sky in the background which I think really adds some depth to the images. The camera set up was Nikon D700 with my trusty Nikon 70-200 2.8 VR lens attached. Exposure was around 1/800 second at an aperture of around f5.6 at 200 iso. I usually shoot my long lens wide open at 2.8 but wanted a little extra depth of field due to the angle of approach so stopped down to f5.6. What was really important to making these shots work was pre-focusing the lens on the peak of the action and then letting rip with the Nikon's amazing 8 frames per second.
Congratulations to the showjumping champions today, you gave an excellent competition and made it so exciting for me as a photographer to capture, the rest of the shots from the day can be viewed here.
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