Equine Photography
I was recently asked to photograph someone’s horse out at nearby stable and riding area. I’ve not done equine photo shoots before, so this was a bit of a learning experience. It was also a lot of fun because back in high school I spent the better part of three consecutive summers on the back of a horse. This horse was very active. He wanted to run, run, run. So I gave up on using reflectors (which kind of freaked him out anyway) and hoping for a still portrait. It was also a bright sunny day, so I knew somehow I had to get him into the shade where I had nice, even lighting. I added some fill light with a 550ex flash, put on the ol’ faithful 70-200mm, set the focusing mode at AI Servo, put the drive in high speed mode and fired away. It was basically the same process I learned on how to shoot wildlife. You can’t waist time trying to “set-up” the shot. By then it will be long gone.
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