A new week, a new day and a few new tricks. If you remember from my last polo event, I was not happy with my results. Not one to give up, I called B&H..told them of my dilemma and they informed me that my card was to slow. O.K. armed with that information, I reloaded and headed out again this week. Much better results and I'm very happy with these shots. I will continue to work on my panning of these crazy fast horses and riders until they are perfect but for this year I am done. Polo season is just about over. I'll be back next year.
This time around I did use a high speed card...not one problem. Of course last time I forgot I was shooting raw..this time, along with the card, I shot jpeg. When I get more practice behind me I might go back to raw but that is a lot of information for the card to write in a short time when panning...I also switched back to my Canon 7D instead of the full frame 5D Mark111, that also saved some writing. I am happy for now and I'll be back on the field again next year...it's very exciting stuff..you have to be careful though...yesterday the damn ball when out of bounds and the horses were coming my way...holy crap..I had to move fast...I'll be practicing that also...
Last but not least at all, every polo match brings out the "best" in some folks. Probably why I have not been to one in all these years...The tailgating is very elaberate. This was my favorite table today...I hoping that if I get some more practice time in next year...then I can set up a tail gate table, with my flowers, nice wine, I've already got the hats and perhaps I'll add a lovely basket of photo cards, with my business cards attached. This could turn into something big...
Now on to fall...tata...