Photographing Horses...

[ms_raven]

Good tips via the link provided in that first reply.

Make sure your camera is balanced horizontally and your horse is well balanced within the viewfinder to start. Aim for a spot just behind the elbow and set yourself and your camera directly across from it both vertically and horizontally. If you are too high, your horse will be too much body and if too low, too much leg.

Once you get a feel for it, and photographing your horse (in particular), you can start to make minor adjustments with your aim to help minimize weaknesses and maximize the strengths that your horse may have.

Practice, practice, practice!!

[RyuEquestrian]

[QUOTE=Oakstable;6061721]
What is the going rate for photos? What do you consider an attractive price if someone took a photo of your horse that you’d love to have?[/QUOTE]

Beginning last year, I began to offer my services as a photographer to breeders and sales barns (www.TheEquineMediaProject.com). I charge by the full CD of images rather than by the single image. I find that it gives breeders/sales barns a variety of photos to rotate on their website and in their ads if they choose. For private farm shoots (as many horses as can be fit in) I charge $300. To go to a horse show and shoot for a single client, my rate is $150. For breed inspections I usually charge $50/single horse single owners or $100/multiple horses/single owner.

My aim is not to get rich, but to provide photos and videos that show the quality of horse that fellow breeders are producing.