This easy-to-use and easy-to-understand guide bypasses technical considerations to teach the photographer how to see horses in a new light, fine-tuning observation skills to recognize photo opportunities and learning how to take best advantage of them.
Whether you use a film, digital, or video camera to shoot conformation, action or art photos, you'll benefit from chapters on choosing and controlling the background, working with natural light, communicating with the horse's handler, and looking at the entire scene from the horse's perspective. You'll learn to circumbent common problems such as distortion, distracting background objects, camera shake, sun flare, and what the author terms the "spaghetti approach" - the naive notion that taking lots of random pictures will result in a good one.
You'll also learn to take portraits of people and horses together, including tips for taking a camera on a trail ride. Information on action shots focuses on how to adjust shutter speed and anticipate action in such specific events as jumping, reining, roping, dressage, and barrel racing.
Since videos have become not only home movies but selling tools, a section is devoted to creating persuasive "moving" pictures.
This user-friendly guide will teach you that successful horse photography is a snap.
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