The Eclipse for photography

[SOREHOOF]

It's pretty easy to take a video and pull 1 frame out of it for a photo. I'm not saying that was what was done, I'm just saying it's easy to do. I actually liked the photo of Leparoux almost going over the handlebars.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by SOREHOOF

It's pretty easy to take a video and pull 1 frame out of it for a photo. I'm not saying that was what was done, I'm just saying it's easy to do. I actually liked the photo of Leparoux almost going over the handlebars.

True, but the resolution isn't usually anywhere near still photography. That said, any professional sports photographer is going to use a camera that takes shots at an extremely high rate. I have no doubt the photographer took a dozen or more shots almost identical to this one, but this was the best one from that moment. Part of his or her job is knowing which shot is the best from the hundreds taken.

[richard]

I'm not an expert but this photo tells a story. By Mathea Kelley.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/images/con...sic09MK298.jpg

[AeWingnut]

and the guy works for the NY Slimes

gawd awful all the way around

[Echo Farm]

Just for interest, here's the last 11 winners all in one place. Unfortunately, I couldn't find photos 1998 & 2000

(I'll have to make it in 3 posts due to the 4 image limit)


1998 Ryan Haynes captures the dramatic fall of Self Reliance during a race at Northlands Park in Alberta, Canada, last July. Neither the horse nor rider Peter Wong was injured in the incident.

1999 Michael J. Marten appeared in the Nov. 8 issue of Daily Racing Form.


2000 Dave Landry's photo of Strike Smartly racing through flying mud, which appeared in the 2000 Queen's Plate Souvenir issue of the Canadian Thoroughbred,

2001 - Barbara D. Livingston, The Thoroughbred Chronicle


2002 - Michael Clevenger, Louisville Courier-Journal


2003 - Frank Anderson, Thoroughbred Times

[Echo Farm]

2004 - Cindy Pierson Dulay, Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred


2005 - Lynn Roberts, The Blood-Horse


2006 - Matt Goins, Lexington Herald Leader


2007 - Douglas Lees, Fauquier Times Democrat

[Echo Farm]

2008 Matt Goins, photograph appeared in Al-Adiyat


2009 Jeff Taylor, Winchester Star, Virginia

[herkhorse]

Thanks Echo. good stuff


p.s. like the new sig.....well, I liked the old one too.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by Echo Farm

2005 - Lynn Roberts, The Blood-Horse

I had forgotten about this one when I wrote my post (re the link with something similar)...

Thanks for posting these, Echo Farm.

[DaTruth]

Originally Posted by Echo Farm

That one brings back some bad memories. I played the rail horse, Rapid Proof, who went off at 17-1 that day.

[PatCummings]

Originally Posted by richard

I'm not an expert but this photo tells a story. By Mathea Kelley.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/images/con...sic09MK298.jpg

Considering some of the Eclipses that go out there, that man (Junior Hungerford) should get one himself because he single-handedly saved what was a likely tragedy live on TV.