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  That's White "Man" to You
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| If anybody has experience taking quality photos of your equines, would you please share your tips and tricks! |
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Location: Kentucky | My tip is to hire a professional photographer. They are worth the money!
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Location: Four Corners Colorado | You ideally need three people. Someone who can work the camera, some one to hold the horse and someone to get the horses ears up! I agree with the above if you can find a professional. I haven't had luck with that where I live.
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 Guys Just Wanna Have Fun
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Location: OH | Ditto on that especially since you are going to want them for advertising. Professionals know how to take pictures at the best angles to show your boy at his best. |
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That's White "Man" to You
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| Mighty Broke - 2014-11-06 10:45 AM Ditto on that especially since you are going to want them for advertising. Professionals know how to take pictures at the best angles to show your boy at his best.
At this point I am scheduled with a professional, however I also want to be sure the everyday photos are great. |
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Guys Just Wanna Have Fun
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Location: OH | Whiteboy - 2014-11-06 11:49 AM Mighty Broke - 2014-11-06 10:45 AM Ditto on that especially since you are going to want them for advertising. Professionals know how to take pictures at the best angles to show your boy at his best. At this point I am scheduled with a professional, however I also want to be sure the everyday photos are great.
Just take bunches---eventually we get lucky and find a few neat ones. LOL |
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| Watch your light maybe bit easier now with winter weather and the sun being less harsh. We like to take morning and evening pictures and avoid the sun being overhead to much. Your angles are important and they look better taken from behind the girth a little it you get to far in front they look heavy in the shoulders and big headed. The other thing is just take a lot of them ! |
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 Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | kneel down so the photos don't look like you are looking down at the horse, a mirror works great to get ears forward. I have heard duck calls etc work too. Clean background, and have the horse about to the top of a hill but not quite, so the skyline shows under their belly |
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Location: Beggs, OK | For side shots stand back away from the horse and line up with the middle of their back...take a side step toward their hip and aim at the belly. This will keep you from diminishing the shoulder and making the head look bigger than it is....and it's a great angle for the hip. You don't want them standing completely square. |
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That's White "Man" to You
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| rachellyn80 - 2014-11-06 11:23 AM For side shots stand back away from the horse and line up with the middle of their back...take a side step toward their hip and aim at the belly. This will keep you from diminishing the shoulder and making the head look bigger than it is....and it's a great angle for the hip. You don't want them standing completely square.
What about quartering away shots, would you square them up for that? |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | Make sure when you take profile pictures you aren't too close to the shoulder. they will come out looking top heavy and disproportionate. stand centered or closer to the hip.
Also, nonobadgirl on here told me to get a horse neigh sound on your phone..im sure theres an app for that. if you can have someone play that it helps perk their ears.
I like to have the front leg closest to me slightly extended and the hind leg closest to me slightly extended. you don't want them all stretched out but it allows you to see all four legs and it emphasizes the slope of the shoulder.
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You get what you give
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Location: Texas | Whiteboy - 2014-11-06 11:28 AM
rachellyn80 - 2014-11-06 11:23 AM For side shots stand back away from the horse and line up with the middle of their back...take a side step toward their hip and aim at the belly. This will keep you from diminishing the shoulder and making the head look bigger than it is....and it's a great angle for the hip. You don't want them standing completely square.
What about quartering away shots, would you square them up for that?
I square them for 3/4 views and stagger them for profile shots. |
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Red Hot Cardinal Fan
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| I don't really have too much too add to what has already been said. It's easier with 3 people: one holding the horse, one getting its' ears up, and the other photographing. For side profile pictures, have the front leg closest to you extened out a little bit to make the slope of the shoulder look a little better. I will crouch down and shoot up to the ribcage. Try to have a clean background and good lighting onto the horse, with any shadows behind them.
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Location: Beggs, OK | Here's a great article, for some reason I can't make my links live...but you can copy and paste it: http://www.professionalauction.com/11_PDF/Photographing.pdf |
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| le Live linkage ..... http://www.professionalauction.com/11_PDF/Photographing.pdf |
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That's White "Man" to You
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| Great article! Thank you. |
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Location: Oklahoma | you know..... he's just so dang ugly.... instead of wasting your money on a photographer, just send him to me... I'd be more than happy to use him, just to save you the hassle  |
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Fire Ant Peddler
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I disagree that the best time is late in the evening. Early in the morning is much better. I learned this from a guy that used to climb up on his chicken houses to take pictures when the sun came up. They are MUCH better. |
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Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | casualdust07 - 2014-11-06 10:32 AM Whiteboy - 2014-11-06 11:28 AM rachellyn80 - 2014-11-06 11:23 AM For side shots stand back away from the horse and line up with the middle of their back...take a side step toward their hip and aim at the belly. This will keep you from diminishing the shoulder and making the head look bigger than it is....and it's a great angle for the hip. You don't want them standing completely square. What about quartering away shots, would you square them up for that? I square them for 3/4 views and stagger them for profile shots.
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Location: Wisconsin | here are some i have done... the three people tip is definitely needed!!! lol
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| Lots and lots of pictires.
Taken the time to groom and fancy them up. Have them stand nice, half the battle is getting a good person that can really set a horse up.
You know i had a gelding that was a PIL to get a good picture. As soon ad he'd get set he'd move and ruin it all. I used my HD video recorder recorded him for like half an hour. I then went and grabbed some good still shots from the video and got some GREAT ones, then he was sold in less than 24 hours, had him listed for some time with just so so pictures.
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Location: Royal J Performance Horses, AZ | When Take a photo of a horse there are A LOT of pictures involved. and i can usually do it with 2 people though of course 3 would be great.
I'm usually the photographer when i do shoot my horses. and I typically kneel down when i shoot, and often move back and forth because a horse angle can look better depending upon the horse and their conformation.
Here are 2 of my horses.
the bay mare I took it from slightly behind the middle of her "barrel" The mare has a nice hip and natural shoulder.
The sorrel mare is standing a bit awkward on her front end, ( it was hard to get her to stand the way she was posed.) I settled for this shot because she was so un willing to stand still. But in this picture you can clearly see I was positioned near her hip to really exaggerate her hip size and roundness, as well as show her shoulder angle. B
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Hire BlazeFlameHarley {Sarah} she can get the job done |
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