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The Benefits Of A Career In Horse Photography

Horses can run, jump, and maybe roll over, but they don’t pose. Many a famous person would testify that it is possible, as long as the one doing the posing is this lady equestrian photographer from Pasadena, California. Whereas her first camera came from Pasadena City College (PCC), she now takes her motor home office to various trackside events, including the Montreal Olympics where she snapped photos of British Princess Anne. If you like this article on paintings visit horse portrait commissions for more education.

She graduated from Pasadena High School and then went to PCC for photography classes, for which she practiced on horses. Since she was 10 years old, she practically lived at the Eaton Canyon Riding Stables. The stables were her practice grounds on weekends, where she used her borrowed camera for assignments. Her life becomes filled with photography once her first horse photo sold, relegating art, music, and journalism to the back burner.

Starting at a show in Santa Barbara, she became an assistant to two famous photographers, and they traveled the country together photographing horse shows, tracks, and state fairs. Her next job involved sticking to California shows under another photographer pair. She gets help from her mother for business things, so that she can concentrate on snapping photos with her Swedish camera with German lens.

Excitement is best for these photos, and she captures the best six-foot jumps and races won by the nose. For formal shots, she has them down on all fours. Some horses are born to be models. Just turn toward some horses with a camera and they immediately perk their ears or raise their heads. Other horses are as unhelpful as can be. More expert paintings information is located at create oil paintings from photos.

There are a few rules of thumb when it comes to taking a good horse photo. There are hunters and jumpers from whom the best shots are those with them mid-air with legs tucked under at just the right angle. As for Tennessee walkers, famous photos are those with their front hoofs in action and an over reaching hoof with their hind legs. While a stock horse is best captured stopping in a slide, a saddle horse is best captured with legs and head held high. A photo of the Peruvian Paso, an endangered South American species that aficionados are struggling to save, is one of her best known works. It would be best to snap a picture when their forelegs are pointed away from their bodies. It helps that their riders wear elaborate white ponchos with bridles and saddles.

She has found photography a good way to meet celebrity horse enthusiasts. Conversations with royalty are another perk of photography. She had just finished photographing Princess Anne when she found herself next to the Queen at the Montreal Olympics. She asked Queen Elizabeth how it felt to watch her daughter take the high jump, and she said it made her quite nervous. To switch it up a little, she began to photograph fork lifts, even though in her spare time she also swims, back packs, bicycles, pans for gold and sometimes even rides a horse.

She didn’t have to worry about the fork lift perking its ears.

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