Equine Portraits of Horse & Rider / Merlot and Patty
Patty had been training (sacking out in horse training lingo) Merlot to the clippers and being the very teachable horse that he is, he let her trim his muzzle and bridle path and even his ears. Patty had been grooming him and working with him for over an hour and she was excited about his new look. “Hey Peter, can we do some portraits?” I said “sure, but we only had light for another 45 minutes.” Patty ran upstairs to put on some nicer clothes and primp herself a little bit, then out we went.
The evening light was just soft and smooth and my wife is gorgeous so it’s not difficult to get good images, but these turned out just wonderfully. We posted twenty from this sesson to my facebook account with the request that people help us select one to be printed as a large canvas print. It will become one of my samples for people to see when they come to my barn studio (still under construction). Even though most of my work is on-location, in the future, I will have a barn studio so that I can do some in studio sessions for senior portraits along with my on-location sessions.
On this portrait you can see some hand motion. I don’t think this negatively effects the overall feel of the image. Because we only had a little bit of light left, I was shooting at a slightly higher ISO setting and pretty low shutter speeds.
This image has what I call a Glamour effect added.
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- My wife Patty just adores her horse Cocoa
- Early Fall is another great time to have horse and rider portraits made in Ohio
- Senior Portraits in Snow, Horse and Rider Portraits in Snow & Family and Kids in Snow
- Morgan’s senior portraits and mom’s friesian horse portraits combined into one session
- Beautiful fall portraits with horse at Trails End Equestrian Center in Dayton Ohio by Peter DeMott