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Galloping Through the Mountains

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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OLYMPUS E-M1

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Aperture 63/10 ISO 200 Shutter 1/500 Focal Length 48/1

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Jul, 2016

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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

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Superb Composition

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Absolute Masterpiece

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Magnificent Capture

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All Star

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Outstanding Creativity

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Awesome capture! Although they look like they're going up! lol!

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Actully on sort of flat ground and coming towards us! Thanks, Ronda.

Beautifully captured !

GORGEOUS !!!!!

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beautiful light!

Beautiful capture Gracie!! ;))

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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!

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another fantastic capture.

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And all in a row! Beautiful image!

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Voted Image of the Month :)

Fantastic, voted Image of the Month

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Award-winning! Voted image of the month!

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Beautifully captured, :-)

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Join the conversation. Add a comment or even better, a critique. Let's get better together!

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Very beautiful.....Voted ...k

Oh man, that would have been great to see in person!!!! :)

Nice shot Kay, voted Image of the Month.

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Awesome photo - voted Image of the month!

Awesome they are , I like how the are keeping their eye on You.Composition is great too !!

Beautiful, natures best.I love this kind of capture.

Voted Covers

Voted Covers.

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I look at their feet, and I love how you captured those feet. Voted covers

Voted Summer Adventures

Voted Summer Adventures. :)

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Stunning - voted Summer Adventures

Voted Creative Crtterscapes

Voted Multiple, good luck Gracie ,ester

Voted Creative Critters. Luck be with you.

Voting Multiple.....

Voted Composing in Shadows.

awesome kay .. so pleased you got the finalist award

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Also voted in Multiple...k

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Also voted Composing with shadows...k

Way to go Kay!!!! My compliments on a very well deserved finalist award. Good for you and hope it goes all the way.

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!

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Congrats on you win. This is a masterpiece... Love it.
Mark

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Delighted this won the contest.....I thought it would do really well.....kxx

Congrats Kay!!!
It`s a beautiful capture!!!

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Congratulations on your award Kay!

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Another Award for this. Beautiful! voted!

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voted Multiple!

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voted composing shadows!

Voted Time and Light

Congratulations Gracie being a finalist Creative Critterscapes Photo Contest, good luck, ester

A timely vote for Time & Light.

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Yay, Kay! Another Award on this fine shot! Congrats!

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Good Luck in both contests!

Congratulations on another much deserved finalist award. So nice to see you in the mix again.

awesome work Kay .. congrats on another finalist award

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Congratulations! Wow two contests in a row for the same photo! You are hitting your stride :)

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Great write up with the "Behind the Lens" :)

Congratulations again being a finalist Multiple Photo contest

Beautiful shot, Kay! Congrats on being a finalist!

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Belated congratulations Kay well deserved:-)

Voted Dramatic Light

Congratulations for the Selection Member Award

congrats on your members award Kay .. one of my favourites :)

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Voted Dramtic Light in Nature :)

Voted Sun Behind.

Fabulous shot Kay!!! Love it!!!

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.

Voted The Sun Behind

Good Luck Gracie, voted Image of the Year !!

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Voted.....k

Voted Image of the Year.

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voted Image of the Year!

Nice to see this sweet image being featured. A well deserved award, congratulations. :)

Congrats Gracie , this photo being featured, .well deserved

And congrats for all the awards on this one, too!!! Well deserved!

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One of my favorites - Voted

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Congratulations on your Galloping glow Feature Award!

Voted Sense of Adventure.

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One of my big favourites,,,,Voted ..k

Voted My Best Shot.

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Voted in Best shot comp.....truly wonderful Kay....I am so jealous.....lol k

Voted My Best Shot

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voted my best shots!

Voted Dusk or Dawn

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voted dusk or dawn!

Voted Beauty of Shadows

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voted this great array of horses! Beauty of Shadow!

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voted sunlight!

Congrats on your finalist award, Kay - I love this! :)

Beautiful shot

Another well deserved award for an outstanding capture. Congratulations my friend. Good for you.

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 !!!

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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.

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!!

congrats on the finalist award Sunlight comp .. Love your horses !!

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Congratulations on your award!

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Congrats again, Kay!

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Voted My Best Shot :)

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Voted Showing Movement :)

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Voted Talent Awards :)

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Voted The Talent Awards:-)

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Behind The Lens

Location

Absaroka Ranch, Wyoming

Time

Sunrise

Lighting

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!

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