A horse racing

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Once I went to a horse racing ground in 2009. I did not buy a ticket for betting, I did not want to, stingy in one respect, not interested in betting or gambling in another respect. Even I did not buy a ticket, I could still get into the racing ground. The only thing I wanted was taking some pictures (All pictures were taken in both JPG and NEF (Nikon RAW) formats. All pictures were modified from NEF files and saved as JPG files with names related to a brief discription of modification methods used).

I took some pictures of the racing ground, and stitched them together manually with a free software called photostitch, like this:

When I chopped the photo using Photoshop 7.0 and HDR(high dynamic range)ed with (D. Lighting in Nikon Captre Editor 4.3.0), it looked like this:

The following picture was taken when horses were at the far left site of the racing ground (above picture), with Nikon D70, iso 200, 1/1000 s, f9.5, 500 mm (equivalent to 750 mm in 24x36 mm standard, Sigma 50-500 mm):

Autoleveled, sharpened with Corel AfterShot Pro 2021:

Modified with Nikon Capture Editor 4.3.0:

The follwing one was taken with Nikon D70, iso 200, 1/1000s, f9.5, 370 mm:

Autoleveled, straightened, sharpened with Corel AfterShot Pro 2021:

Modified with Nikon Capture Editor 4.3.0:

The following one is a panning picture with iso 200, 1/45 s, f32, 195 mm, on a tripod. The camera was following the movement of the horses and jockeys horizontally:

Autoleveled, sharpened with Corel AfterShot Pro 2021:

Modified with Nikon Capture Editor 4.3.0:

The following one is a panning picture with iso 200, 1/45 s, f32, 195 mm, on a tripod. The camera was following the movement of the horses and jockeys horizontally:

Autoleveled, straightened, sharpened with Corel AfterShot Pro 2021: