Delaware County Photography Group and Workshop
June 2011
Neither of us are gamblers and certainly have never been to "the track" so this was something totally different. Mike Hagan who runs DCPGW made arrangements for 20 of us to spend the afternoon capturing images at the Delaware Park Horse Racing facility in Wilmington Delaware. The afternoon began with Chris from the track taking us on a tour and filling us in on where we could and could not take pictures. Chris had loads of experience taking media types around so he had some pointers on where the best vantage points might be. Mike was on hand to provide group and individual assistance on camera settings that best fit the situation.
We learn something new about our cameras every time we encounter a new situation. For this session both of us were shooting with the longest lenses we have which is a Sigma 70-300mm for Kathy and a Quantaray 70-300mm for me. Neither is especially fast but both were in the under $200 lens category. It's what we had so we did the best we could. Mike had all of us use aperture priority so we could set our lenses to the widest opening possible. This causes backgrounds to blur and drives shutter speed up. ISO was set to 400+ to further drive shutter speeds up giving us some stop motion images. Additionally, we set our cameras to continuous shutter and continuous auto focus. These settings allowed us to fire away whenever we held the shutter button down and the camera would maintain focus as subject distances changed.
Enough of the technical stuff, on to the pictures.....
Click on these images for a larger view and some additional comments.
Kathy's Images
Joe's Images
For the photographers among you: Joe's images were taken with a Nikon D300. Kathy's images were taken with a Nikon D60. All images were geotagged with a Sony GPS-CS3KA.
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