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Cloudy-bright days are best, Lees said. Darker, rainy days challenge any photographer, amateur or professional.
• If you have a nice camera, don’t even take it out of the car if it’s a rainy day unless you have rain covers to help protect the gear. Many of the automatic cameras are somewhat weatherproof.
• Lees uses race tapes to help with his photography. “They can actually help with the lighting, vantage points and show you where the horses actually jumped the fence. Walking the course also is helpful for this.”
• Experiment. Practice.
“It really helps to get in the groove by photographing every week, making adjsutments in the darkroom and correcting persistent problems. I look at this as a long-term project, and on each course I try to make mental notes to use next week or next year.
“This is rolling countryside and there are a lot of opportunities to take great pictures,” said ,Lees. “I go year to year to the same courses, always looking for and finding new angles and different perspectives.
“The action pictures are always there, but there are so many pieces to the puzzle such as the candids in the paddock, the jockeys saluting to the judges following the races, etc.,” Lees said adding, “And there are always new mistakes to correct.”
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