X-T2: Winter Sleigh Derby

GilBarib · January 24, 2017

Hi

Here a few from a Winter Sleigh Derby.

For those of you not familiar with the sport these are time trials races on a 380 meters course with 8 gates and 6 fence-like obstacles.

Each team has to go thru the gates and around the obstacles in the shortest time, but there is a 5 seconds penalty if they knock down the small balls sitting on top of the cones of a gate.

Same thing with the small wooden block sitting on one of the post of the fence obstacles, those will make them loose a extra 10 sec each.

And to make it a bit more challenging, the course is not linear but rather randomly set in a 100 x 100 meter field and you have to do it in the right order.

The gates are numbered from 1 to 8 and the obstacle from A to F, first they'll do all the gates in order and then go around each of the obstacles once again in order, get it wrong and it's a disqualification.

For the horse handlers (les meneurs) it's more about control and finesse than brute power and speed,

It's a great type of race to photography since they will pass in front of you a few time, so you get a chance to shoot from a variety of different angles all while standing on the same spot.

Shot in AFC with a gripped X-T2 on boost at 11 fps ( great to catch the horses with four hooves in the air). The XF50-140's range was perfect for shooting from different angles.

Shot in Raw, PP in LR 6.8, Irident's X-Transformer and Nik's PreSharp + ColorFX.

The Flickr Album (44 pics as of now): https://flic.kr/s/aHskSW6jvd

Derby de Shannon #49 by Gilles Baribeau, on Flickr

Derby de Shannon #42 by Gilles Baribeau, on Flickr

Derby de Shannon #23 by Gilles Baribeau, on Flickr

Derby de Shannon #9 by Gilles Baribeau, on Flickr

Derby de Shannon #11 by Gilles Baribeau, on Flickr

Derby de Shannon #4 by Gilles Baribeau, on Flickr

Derby de Shannon #41 by Gilles Baribeau, on Flickr