This past Sunday I had the pleasure of taking in my first horse race.  I went up to Monmouth Park Racetrack with family and friends for some gambling, grilling, and good ole fashion beer drinking - in no particular order.  The experience was better than expected, even with the flood gates unleashing a two hour thunderstorm and over an inch of rain.  Fortunately I grabbed some decent photos with my Canon Digital SLR while it was still dry.

For this picture I was shooting in RAW mode with a wide open aperture value of f/5.6 and the shutter speed set to 1/1250.  My ISO setting was at 400. My post editing consisted of High Dynamic Range processing of this photo with Photomatix Pro 3.

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Race Horse image courtesy of flickr user Greg Molyneux published under the CC license.