Cattle Drive

[sjconner]

Here are a few pictures form the cattle drive I went on today. I drove the rear flagging truck. It was a lot of fun to watch. It was overcast and started to rain when the cows finally reached their destination.

I took lots of OOF pictures. These are probably the best and I've done some pp to them.

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[Morpheuss]

they are pretty good the last two i would try to make the background a little more saturation

 

[tirediron]

Very nice; I especially like #5!

 

[sleist]

I like #5 a LOT! Nice work.
#1 I would like more if the focus was sharper on the cowboy rather than the cows.

 

[Negative ISO]

I'll bet this was fun!

1 - Looks like it needs a Marlboro logo.
2 & 3 - I imagine you had very little control over your shooting angle, but wish I could see this scene taken from the side (horses and cattle traveling across the shot) rather than head-on.
5 - This is fantastic, I'll bet the young man's parents would love to have a nice print of this one. I suppose composition wise it would be nice to have him slightly higher in the shot, he and the horse are almost scraping the bottom of the frame.

 

[baturn]

Man! Those are so real I can smell cows--t and saddle leather.

 

[I X L R 8]

I prefer number 4.
Because that is what happens on cattle drives.

It's a cattle drive, not a little kid drive trying to be cute holding a horse by the reins which is why number 5 is a goner.

Number 6 can take a hike , as well.
Number 5 is the shyt.
I like it.

 

[LCARSx32]

I like all of the shots a lot, especially #4. You can really feel the vastness of the wilderness.

But I have to question you as to why you shot at ISO 800? The first one was a bit grainy, so I checked your Exif data. I can understand bumping it up for the shots where the cows are running, but the others, I would've had it at 100 if I could get away with it.

Still really nice shots, though. You certainly don't see that too much anymore.

 

[Eventer]

Wow love them!! number 5 and 2 are my favourites!

 

[gsgary]

Shot on auto, just take a look at the awful settings your camera chose for the first shot ISO800 1/6000 F5.6 that shot could have been nice but for the noise

 

[misstwinklytoes]

Anything nice to say about the others Gary?

 

[gsgary]

Anything nice to say about the others Gary?

Shot 1 is my favorite but i would have framed it lower shots 2 is the next best, try using aperture priority

 

[sjconner]

I used my 70-300mm lens and shot them using the aperture priority setting. I had my aperture set wide open - I should have stopped it down. Stopping the aperture down would have helped #2 and given it a greater depth of field. It was really overcast and I wasn't sure. The histograms for these were really narrow. I need more work with exposure. The new edition of Understanding Exposure came out on Aug 10 ... when I get my next paycheck - I am going to order it. :mrgreen:

Thanks,
Susan

 

[gsgary]

I used my 70-300mm lens and shot them using the aperture priority setting. I had my aperture set wide open - I should have stopped it down. Stopping the aperture down would have helped #2 and given it a greater depth of field. It was really overcast and I wasn't sure. The histograms for these were really narrow. I need more work with exposure. The new edition of Understanding Exposure came out on Aug 10 ... when I get my next paycheck - I am going to order it. :mrgreen:

Thanks,
Susan

Check the exif first shot was auto, and it gave you some awful settings, and i think every shot was at ISO800

 

[I X L R 8]

Check the exif first shot was auto, and it gave you some awful settings, and i think every shot was at ISO800

Yes and so??
For ISO 800 they look pretty good to me.