Parenting Fact: If a junior steer rider touches a Subaru commercial, the universe will explode.
Click for a fantastic series of shots by SDA veteran Sean McCormick.
Parenting Fact: If a junior steer rider touches a Subaru commercial, the universe will explode.
Click for a fantastic series of shots by SDA veteran Sean McCormick.
Thanks, Kate. Here is the link to the 4-H Rodeo album for this year:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mccormickphotography/sets/72157634639803809/
I have over 3000 shots from the event that I am still going through, and there will be about 100 images in the album when I am done. I am working on this in between household chores, getting the kid to do her school work, etc. May take a few days.
Outstanding work …… Thank you.
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Fantastic photos. At first glance, I thought the photo in the post was one of Kate’s paintings. The lighting and detail in the animal’s hair really reminded me of some of Kate’s work.
Lickmuffin – I thought the exact same thing, these were somehow too perfect, too exquisite to come out of a camera. Of course the technology is not that of the Kodak Brownie.
Wow, cowgirls DO wear pink thongs…
Best eating the “Big Dirt Sandwich” – Discount Dismount
Best action shot – Turning wide
Very nice work Sean; congratulations!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
I see they still have kids using those idiot tiedowns. Good way to drown a horse and shows a lack of horsemanship.
And helmets at a western event…gawd.
Heh.
I agree. I thought the same thing. Great photography Sean! I just love the clarity, with the eyes of the horses and riders showing their total absorption in the task at hand.
So we have at least three great photographers in our midst. Kate, Sean, and Robert.
Hmmmm that arena dirt looks soft and inviting – just dive in head first.
The pictures look like they’ve been messed with. Not very real looking.
I guess it pleases the artsy types…give me an honest depiction of an event any day.
It’s been a few months since I’d visited Sean’s page..
Excellence, as per usual. Really captures those memories of growing up in Saskatchewan.
Thanks Sean.
“The pictures look like they’ve been messed with”
Not at all. Just a good photographer using good equipment and doing some post processing. I ‘mess’ with most of my shots before posting. It is so easy to crop a shot to remove distracting elements, and fine tuning the contrast, brightness, colour balance and sharpness if required.
My eyes are getting fuzzy in old age, and my camera sees better than I can.
Fabulous photos. In some of them I can almost smell the home baked bread in the wood fired stove… Lovely.
No, they’ve been gussied up. Like a woman who puts on too much makeup.
I don’t see what your sister has to do with anything, dude.
Glorious work, Sean. I’ve thought so for years, ever since I first started coming here and looked at your stuff.
Glorious work, Sean.
Yeah, if women ran the world…
Beautiful work, Sean.
Thank you to everyone for the kind words, I’m much obliged to the lot of you. Strad: I do appreciate your taking the time to look and the honest feedback. As a matter of interest, the 4-H shoot was a volunteer gig for the Neutral Hills 4-H Rodeo Wranglers. When I deliver them the processed files, they will receive one file that is essentially straight off the camera with some minor exposure corrections, and also the ‘gussied up’ version. I’m aware that what works for me won’t work for everyone so I never try to shove my own taste in processing down the throats of my clients, even the non-paying ones. 🙂
Hope everyone is enjoying the summer!
If reality is manipulated, it’s fake. Simple as that
Some people like fake, I don’t.
You’re an odd little violin, aren’t you?
No odder than someone who speaks on command, heh
That comment makes total sense to a person in contact with reality, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
I can manipulate an image just by choosing where I’m standing to capture it. See…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mccormickphotography/9188228387/
vs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mccormickphotography/9188227841/
All images are manipulated by the photographer in one way or another. Anyone who tells you different is being less than honest.
Also: Digital sensors work differently than our eyes do (e.g. less dynamic range, different colour perception, etc.). It takes a bit of post-processing (manipulation, if you will), to make the file look like what I actually saw. Most files that come straight off the camera in RAW format look nothing like reality. The modern point-and-shoot performs a fair amount of in-camera manipulation to do the same thing for inexperienced photographers, and you’re allowed to choose shooting modes to help the camera make those decisions. Just because Photoshop wasn’t involved doesn’t mean that the file is pure as the driven snow. 🙂
All images are manipulated by the photographer in one way or another. Anyone who tells you different is being less than honest.
Yes, exactly. It’s story time rather than recording the event. Most people take it as reality, when it’s only opinion. You can call it art, or whatever you want, but it’s an attempt to influence people to see what didn’t happen. Or how the photographer wished it had happened.
In this case it only matters to those involved. But people see hundreds of these images every day and often never stop to realize they’re being sold something in every one of them. And it isn’t reality…
I don’t promise reality, just entertainment for those who are afflicted with quirks similar in nature to my own. I like to tell stories, sometimes with a camera, and sometimes in other ways. People have been telling stories where I live for countless generations, and I am privileged to be able to follow in their footsteps, carrying forward their traditions. You’re not really keeping to the spirit of The Neutrals if you don’t embellish your tales to fit the occasion and the audience.
My two cents. Time to walk the dog and then desecrate more images in Photoshop. 😉
Entertainment is fine, and a good story can always teach something. It’s the deliberate distortion of reality, then presenting it as reality that things become confusing.
This caught my eye because I’ve participated in a lot of these events. 4-H events are different than the run of the mill horse events. I guess I just didn’t see that difference…
It’s summed up in the 4-H motto and pledge;
The 4-H Motto
“Learn to Do by Doing”
The 4-H Pledge
I pledge
My Head to clearer thinking,
My Heart to greater loyalty,
My Hands to larger service,
My Health to better living.