When taking a good picture, you must remember that a camera captures every detail of your subject, the horse. Depending on what your horse is doing in the photo, you would want to prepare it differently.
- Action Shots: If your picture includes a horse galloping in its pasture, then grooming won’t be that important. Whoever looks at this picture won’t exactly notice the dustiness on your horse. They would most likely look at the horse running.
- Close-ups: Close-ups focus in on the horse’s main details. Grooming is especially important for close-ups because people will most likely see the dirt on your horse. You want to be “show ready”. (Show ready grooming your horse like you would before a show).
Background:
When taking a good picture of any subject, you want the background to be as clear and uncluttered as possible. Say you were trying to take a picture of a horse and there was a car in the background, the car might take away some focus from your horse. You want the big focal point to be on the horse.
You want your background to contrast the colors of your horse. For example, don’t put a white or light gray horse in a snowy pasture. You would put that horse in a green, grass-filled pasture. In the picture to the right, I could have moved the pony somewhere else to contrast better. Her face nearly blends in with the sand on the ground.
In a good pictures, you want the horse to be as close to the frame as possible, and the background maybe a bit blurry to focus in on it. In the picture to the right, you can see how the pony is in focus and the background is blurry.
Composition:
In a good picture, your horse should be at a certain angle that will enhance the picture. You don’t want your horse facing the camera directly because you see less of the horse and more of what is surrounding it. You also see less details that complement the horse. In the picture to the above you cannot see many details of this horse. A picture will always look better if you can see more components of the horse.A picture of a horse at a side-angle is always prettier.
Lighting:
Lighting is a very important component of a great picture. The light position controls the amount of brightness and sunlight in your photo. There are three different types of light positions: Direct-light, side-light, and backlight.
- Direct-light, is light that shines directly on your subject. Direct light really helps capture fast-moving subjects.
- Side-light is when the light shines on either side of your subject to help give it some small shadows.
- Backlight is when the light is slightly behind your subject enabling
- your subject to have a ring of sunlight behind your subject, which has a really pretty effect.
What area would have better lighting, outside or inside?
If you took a picture outside, it would have more interesting lighting because the light is natural. Inside, the light is more from your light-bulbs so it looks different. Say you were taking a picture of a horse in its stall, the lighting effects would not be as strong as a picture of a horse outside in its pasture. In the picture to the right, the pony is inside, so the lighting is different.
Be prepared for the unexpected:
The best time to shoot a photo is when the horse does something unexpected. When the unexpected happens, it enables another detail to the picture. For example, when a horse bucks or rears, it creates interest in the viewer.
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