Marc, my bad, perhaps I did not explain myself fully. When I say 'not real life', I mean a planned and staged shoot where the subject(s), their movements and in most instances the lighting too is controlled or at least predictable (as much as natural lighting can be). In that sense, while marvelous, your images do not come under the 'spontaneous' category, at least IMHO.Actually, the "Cowboy" shoot was exactly "How Things Work In Real Life".
The entire session had the explicit purpose of demonstrating the Muddy Creek Company's product in real world conditions ............
While the shoot itself was deliberate and with purpose, it didn't preclude "spontaneous works" of which made up roughly half the images chosen by the client.
I too have shot such images, albeit of a slightly different kind.
The following are from a shoot in Camargue in 2014. Most of the action shots were taken while I was standing almost knee-deep in water with a very treacherous muddy terrain beneath, one slip and I along with my gear would be in the water. With the frenetic action, the shutter speeds had to be high enough and what was happening in front of me was completely unpredictable in many shots, I just had to take the opportunity when it came my way. These were all done with my Canon 1DX with (mostly) the 70-200 f4 lens on it - all hand held, no question of having a tripod there.
There is no way I could have used my Phase iQ180 - which I owned at the time - or even the current IQ3 in such a setup with constant changes in my position and that of the subject(s), the danger of being splashed or falling being ever present. At times I was just a few feet from the horses as they came thundering towards us, swerving away at the last minute.
Again, not meant to define the limits of what MFDB can do today and I accept completely that a lot of progress has been made, but it still remains a niche product is all I am trying to say.
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