Post your Horse Shots Here

**Peter Ryan** · 6th January 2011, 04:56 AM

Originally Posted by aekonet

My first post here (except the introduction)

I took the picture during a walk with my daughter on a very bright November day.
She and the horse were converging with caution, which I wanted to show.

[Exifs inside]

Critique and comments are welcome

Thanks for viewing & best regards

Otmar

PS: Sorry for my basic English

Welcome to CiC Otmar and there is nothing wrong with your English - it is far better than my Austrian.

You have captured what you set out to show. I like the angle of the shot looking up at the horse and the angle of view has kept the horses head separate from the railing. It’s all in the eyes. Well done.

**Peter Ryan** · 6th January 2011, 05:19 AM

Originally Posted by mariejo

Looking through you

Hi again Mariejo,

I also have horses and like photographing them. There is a guy in a camera club I once belonged to who captured some great B & W shots of close up parts of horses. I have not been able to achieve it as well as he did but I keep trying. I have also tried this angle and to me it seems to divide the image in two with a straight line from the bottom to the top of the image. Diagonal lines are much more dynamic.

The human eye seeks two things in an image – the brightest part and the sharpest part. It is often said that if the main part of the image is not the brightest part by design it will be by default. Here the background keeps taking me away from the eye.

Maybe if you cropped a bit tighter, tilted it a bit and turned it to B&W to eliminate the bright area issue it might add some zest to the shot. I have had a go to show you what I mean. I hope you don’t mind.

**Peter Ryan** · 6th January 2011, 05:22 AM

Originally Posted by SaraLou

This is a picture of my friends horse Jasper.

It was one of the first photo's I toook with my SLR...I'm really pleased with the way it came out. I've not edited it at all, so C&C on how I could improve it are welcome.

Hi Sarah and welcome to CiC. I lived in Surrey for a time at Purley. Nice part of the world where you are.

I like this shot as I had a lovely grey pony I like to photograph. I urge you to read my comments above about bright spots, etc only for comparison purposes. This shot is almost monochrome with even light across the image. The two-thirds one third composition works quiet well and the only distracting bit to me is the end of the halter. It does not touch too much ot the horses hair at all so could be easily cloned out so it did not take my attention away from the sultry horse eye. Good work.

**Peter Ryan** · 6th January 2011, 05:30 AM

Originally Posted by mariejo

My Joey...

A nice silhouette. The only thing here would be to clone out the building in the top right hand corner and the date stamp in the bottom to keep the shot clean and the audience focused on your subject.

What type of riding to you do?

**mariejo** · 6th January 2011, 04:50 PM

Hi Peter,

thanks again for your comments: learning to do pix is also learning to ' edit' and I have a tremendous amount to learn there as well!!!

) I do mostly Western Performance and of course, riding trails!

**mariejo** · 6th January 2011, 04:53 PM

that picture was done with my little camera ( point and shoot) and I don't know how to take out the ' labels' as post processing ?? I thought of ' cropping' it but then, I would have taken out a part of legs ( vertical) then one whole post of the fence ( horizontal)...??

Originally Posted by mariejo

My Joey...

**Peter Ryan** · 6th January 2011, 07:24 PM

Originally Posted by mariejo

Hi Peter,

thanks again for your comments: learning to do pix is also learning to ' edit' and I have a tremendous amount to learn there as well!!!

) I do mostly Western Performance and of course, riding trails!

For many years I did trail riding through the mountains in Victoria, Australia; mostly weekend rides but at least two 5 - 7 days rides a year camping out with big camp fires, etc. Great fun.

Some post processing is the next step but you are doing well - keep it up. My comments are just for general assistance but it is also very important to take the memory shots as well. Not all shots are masterpieces and you need to record what you see and enjoy it.

**aekonet** · 7th January 2011, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by Peter Ryan

Welcome to CiC Otmar and there is nothing wrong with your English - it is far better than my Austrian.

You have captured what you set out to show. I like the angle of the shot looking up at the horse and the angle of view has kept the horses head separate from the railing. It’s all in the eyes. Well done.

Thank you, Peter!

**pono** · 5th February 2011, 02:32 AM

**Michhappysnapper** · 5th February 2011, 01:06 PM

This is Victor. I, as many here seem to be, am a complete novice. This was captured with my little point and shoot while I was on holiday (catching a plane with 2 small kids puts some limits on your luggage.) I know its not perfect but I really love this shot....