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As promised in an earlier post here are some shots from the Western Stampede Rodeo held in West Jordan, Utah July 4-6th 2013 This series of shots are from Saturday the 6th and the rain that started on Friday night had continued unabated the entire day…
The Arena when we arrived.
Die Hard Fans
The Pens
Now how about some action?
Attitude is everything! This guy got loud cheers for his exciting ride.
Remember that there’s more than just mud in all that muck…
This next series is of a horse that went nuts in the chute and they let him out where he proceeded to go even crazier, they roped him and he walked out of the arena just fine.
He called these his Mother in law’s cars…
That’s “mud” he dug out of his ear he’s flipping off his finger.
See how vertical he was? Watch as he eats it!
This was one of the most dynamic rides of the night.
Ok so the Sunset actually did make an appearance…
No doubt by now you’ll have noticed that I had a ton more images from Saturday then I did Friday, this was because I shot on manual all night to ensure a high enough shutter speed and trusted Noiseware to clean up the noise at 3200 ISO. It wasn’t perfect but it worked well enough.
All my shots were with a Nikon 70-300mm or a Rokinon 8mm fisheye.
I had such a great time even with all the mud and rain splatters, if you ever get a chance to photograph a rodeo I highly recommend it!
Thanks again to West Jordan City, Doug Sims and the Photographix Club and Cervi Rodeo for allowing me to shoot such a great show.
New D7000 user 
Oh my GOSH you did excellent!! I think my favorite one was the dsc_5665. with the horse doing a complete arch up and the mud going every which where!! So you shot manual and iso 3200? This was at twilight time? What software did you use to cut the noise? I have recently bought imagenomic. Still trying to figure out how to use it.
Can I suggest one thing. I am connected and getting the emails from the blog. When it shows up in my inbox it shows your whole blog with all the pictures. I thought if you cut off at a spot that makes them want to click through to your blog (Like my favorite picture I like on this post) Just click on the place that puts on “If you would like to see more click on the link” Then the people clicks it and it take them straight to your blog where they see the rest of your pictures. I thought way you will get more traffic and more people will see your wonderful photos. I know I try to remember to do this cut off things too but I forget once I get into writing the blog.
Hope I am explaining myself properly.
Thanks so much for your kind comments! That shot is one of my favorites as well I only wish I had more head room on it. Thanks for the tip I keep forgetting to put one of those cuts in especially on the really long posts like this one. Can you do me a favor and see if my newest post https://newd7000user.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/week-40-of-52-theme-play-time-sibling-rivalry/ has one, the preview never shows the cut link so I’m never sure if it’s working or not. My theme has a tendency to remove it whenever I try to put one in.
Now onto your technical questions, I did shoot these all handheld at ISO 1600 or 3200 ( I had to bump it up once the sun set) I use Imagenomic’s Noiseware for noise reduction and it did a pretty good job, I usually kept it on the default setting with a small adjustment up on the sharpening and contrast sliders. I just purchased Lightroom 5 and I’ve heard really good things about its noise removal capabilities so I’m looking forward to testing it out. The Rodeo started just before Sunset and continued well into the evening so most of the light came from a mixture of stadium lights hence the weird color casts, trying to get every shot to look neutral would have been nearly impossible and definitely too time consuming. The key to making these work at such high ISO is RAW! I just never would have been able to see half of what I did if RAW wasn’t so forgiving and full of subtle information I could pull out in post processing.
Thanks again!
Howard
I too use Imagenomic and I shoot in RAW. But sometimes it is good to shoot in JPG if you are shooting fast moving objects such as in sports because then your camera won’t slow down when you are in continuous mode. But I have a hard time changing it to JPG I admit as it limits what I can do afterwards to the photos. I moved my sliders around a lot in Imagenomic so maybe I should bump it back to default.
On the email I got sent from the above post, it does cut it off and urges me to read more on your web site. That is exactly it! Good job!
I love my D7000 but I am wondering if I should start saving my pennies for a full frame? How about you?
Your work is very nice. I stumbled across your Mt. Timp temple photos and wondered what you would charge for a print? Could you contact me at Clint.e@gmail.com? Thanks!
Thanks so much for checking on that for me, I’m glad it worked I’ll try to remember the cut from now on. As far as full frame I’m definitely working towards getting one as I really like to push the ISO, however it took me over 4 years to save for the D7000 so I don’t think I’ll get a new camera for awhile, it’s also hard to save with all the lenses I want to get… How come I always pick the expensive hobbies?
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