Horse Photoshoot

My friend Michelle owns a HORSE!! A real live horse who lives at a beautiful farm. Perfect opportunity for a photoshoot!

Tip #1: Moving objects are not the easiest things to learn how to photograph, but you can still have fun anyways.

(crop out my shadow and this picture's not too bad).

I didn't play around with as many settings as I would have liked too because let's be honest, when a horse is running straight towards you, your priorities shift a little bit. I did figure out, however, that because it was so bright outside (with the snow and sun) I was able to have a fairly quick shutter speed.

We started out in a barn and the lighting was super frustrating so while I was trying to find a good shutter speed (aka, button pushing until I figured out what some settings actually affected) I made an awesome "whoops-photo" that turned out super cool.

Now, if I could only do this on purpose. Also, I am wanting his eye to be a little more glossy looking so I might play around with the limited photoshop I have to create the glistening look I want. I'm going to have to look at a my camera to see the specs on this picture. I would love it if I could recreate this, on purpose.


 I gave up trying to set my camera to be able to shoot the indoor/outdoor lighting that the barn was offering so I went outside to see what other farm animals I could find.

Cuties!

I still have sooo much to learn about apertures, and which lens to use and lighting and movement stuff. So, I will just show some of my favorite pictures of the day!

Beautiful

Things are getting a little artsy...If you look reallly closely you can see me in the reflection of his eye!

I love Michelle's expression in this one. Gorgeous!

Starting to figure out how to focus on what I want to focus on, not what the camera wants to focus on.

This ones cool! I love how the white on his face looks against the white snow. I also like how you can see his feet in this one. Pretty good angle, I think.

Focused on the Barbs!

Two fluffy cats and a horse!

...still working out how to get the full silhouette effect.

This picture is awesome. However, I don't like how I feel like I'm going to fall off the earth when I look at it... So I straightened things out a bit...

Ah... That's much better.

I love how you can see the snow splashing up around his hooves. And his tail looks pretty neat too!

Custom fence = custom photo

Pretty good for one of my first photo shoots.... and one last one for the bloopers....

You just can't plan for a shot like this! Makes me laugh out loud every time I look at it!

Thanks for the great day at the farm, Michelle! It's day's like this that get me so excited for the day when I will own my own farm and can spend sunny days outside appreciating the little things like goofy horse faces and beautiful friends. Can't wait for the next photoshoot.