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often doesn’t enhance the photo.’’
• Vertical shots usually are more interesting, and can be better photos because they focus on the subject. The background is then compressed in the picture, isolating the individual.
“Tailgates lend themselves to vertical shots,” Lees said. “People need to take more vertical shots. Everyone has a tendency to take horizontal shots and not many vertical ones.”
• Get close to your subject.
This can pose a problem if you aren’t allowed on course.
Still, there are jumps or views at courses that can be shot from areas that are open to spectators.
Lees said the paddock at Rappahannock offers a good photo opportunity and the turns at Foxfield and Middleburg make for superb flat racing pictures for the spectator with large telephoto lenses from a high vantage point.
Lees likes to use 300mm and 500mm lenses on wide turns at those courses from the spectator areas.
“1 used to look at the flat races at the ’chase meets as the ‘Hot Dog race,’ ” said Lees. “Now I try to locate vantage points on and off course to photograph turns with the 500mm lens.”
Lees said he believes this may be the best use for the 500mm
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