The horses had been turned out of the corral, it was early morning and the sun was just coming up, turning the dust from their galloping hooves into a glow. How...
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The horses had been turned out of the corral, it was early morning and the sun was just coming up, turning the dust from their galloping hooves into a glow. How beautiful!
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Awards
Contest Finalist in The Sunlight Photo Contest
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Member Selection Award
Contest Finalist in Multiple Photo Contest
Contest Finalist in Creative Critterscapes Photo Contest
Peer Award
Superb Composition
Top Choice
Absolute Masterpiece
Magnificent Capture
All Star
Outstanding Creativity
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kathymuhle
July 18, 2016
And here they come - you've filled the frame with something in every corner and I like the placement of the horses with the sunlight behind and dust - awesome!
kathleenweetman
August 14, 2016
Join the conversation. Add a comment or even better, a critique. Let's get better together!
robhansen
August 19, 2016
Awesome they are , I like how the are keeping their eye on You.Composition is great too !!
NatureLoverJJWal
September 01, 2016
I look at their feet, and I love how you captured those feet. Voted covers
UnkleFrank
October 21, 2016
Way to go Kay!!!! My compliments on a very well deserved finalist award. Good for you and hope it goes all the way.
UnkleFrank
October 21, 2016
Way to go Kay!!!! My compliments on a very well deserved finalist award. Good for you and hope it goes all the way.
nina050
October 21, 2016
Kay, congrats on this well-deserved finalist win!! This is an awesome shot and I'm so glad you were recognized for it! :-) Well done!
kathleenweetman
October 21, 2016
Delighted this won the contest.....I thought it would do really well.....kxx
estercastillo08
November 01, 2016
Congratulations Gracie being a finalist Creative Critterscapes Photo Contest, good luck, ester
UnkleFrank
November 04, 2016
Congratulations on another much deserved finalist award. So nice to see you in the mix again.
kathymuhle
November 05, 2016
Congratulations! Wow two contests in a row for the same photo! You are hitting your stride :)
UnkleFrank
December 18, 2016
Way to go on the Member Selection Award. Too bad VB does not give us the extra award status for several of the feature awards. I do not agree with them that it's clutter. It's still an award for your excellent work.
UnkleFrank
January 10, 2017
Nice to see this sweet image being featured. A well deserved award, congratulations. :)
kathleenweetman
April 08, 2017
Voted in Best shot comp.....truly wonderful Kay....I am so jealous.....lol k
UnkleFrank
June 21, 2017
Another well deserved award for an outstanding capture. Congratulations my friend. Good for you.
aruschandran
June 26, 2017
I'm not a photographer to suggest on this but I personally feel like if the vividness of grass was increased without affecting the other subjects, this photo would have been more attractive... still it is an awesome shot !! Congratulations !!!
KayBrewer
July 02, 2017
That "grass" is sage and that's the color sage is. I don't saturate areas of my photos so they're not realistic. My photos represent reality (usually....). Thank you for your interest.
nina050
July 02, 2017
HUGE CONGRATS FOR YOUR AWARDS FOR THIS AWESOME PHOTO.....and just for the record, the think the color of the SAGE is perfect.....totally fits with the composition of this piece. Well done, Kay!!
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Location
Absaroka Ranch, WyomingTime
SunriseLighting
The sunrise was especially important because my goal was to get the sunlight shining through the dust stirred up by the horses' hooves. To do that, I needed the low sunlight of sunrise or sunset. In this case, it was sunrise.Equipment
Jay loaned me his Olympus E-M1 camera, Olympus 40-150mm f2.8 Pro lens. What an incredible setup! No tripod, flash, and just pure grit at having 40 or so horses galloping full speed toward you!Inspiration
I was at a photo workshop instructed by Jay Dickman, National Geographic and Pulitizer Prize winning photographer. I had seen pictures he'd taken of horses galloping through the dust with all that golden sunshine shining through and wanted one close to his in the worst way.Editing
I shot all RAW pictures that morning so there would be as little buffering as possible. I brought the photo in through Adobe Camera Raw, used as many of its tools as possible, then exported it to Photoshop. In Photoshop, I basically just used Topaz Denoise and Detail. The camera I used is so incredibly sharp that little of either was needed.In my camera bag
Canon 5D Mk III and 60D camera bodies, extra media, cleaning materials, tripod, polarizers for all lenses, neutral density filters of all strength for all lenses, 100-400mm, 16-35mm lens, 24-105mm lens, 100mm macro lens, all of them Canon L-series lenses.Feedback
Get up early, be ready well ahead of time and know when the sun is to rise, have a long lens and camera hanging from one shoulder and a wide angle lens and camera hanging from the other. Set your camera shutter priority 1/500, and auto everything else (aperture, ISO, white balance), high burst. Shoot RAW only (vs RAW + JPEG) because you'll get higher bursts and less buffering. You won't have ANY time to check your shots and adjust anything. The whole shoot is over in less than 2 minutes and if you stop for even 2 seconds, you've missed a lot. The horses and wranglers come roaring down form the ridge at just the time the sun is coming over the ridge. You have to stand brave and trust that the horses aren't going to trample you. In fact, the instructions were that if a horse was coming straight at you, raise both arms and yell HORSE, and they would theoretically know to veer. And above all, bring all the courage you have that the people directing the shoot and wrangling the horses know what they're doing. Jay was the director and he was superb. The riders were spectacular and certainly knew their jobs!