Another image from, what is becoming my continuing early morning walks series. Due to the very early hour, slight overcast and distance I had to shoot this at 310mm, 1/100s and ISO 1600, which isn’t ideal for a shot like this. Ah, well, part of the go for a walk and also take your camera territory…
I always think of Jonathan Chritchley when I see horses, especially this series: Icehorses. His work in general is one of my inspirational sources. Such a good eye for beauty and simplicity. Been a fan for years.
This work by Jacques Dekker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
With the white horse being the centre piece it was a bit of a struggle to get the mid tones and darker shadows correct.
Did a good job, if I say so myself: There’s plenty detail in all of the whites but the back of the shed is also still visible. Getting the second horse correct was the hardest to do…
Wonderful, for a go for a walk and also take your camera. I doubt the composition could be any better, when planned carefully.
I know, the image is in the “Showcase” category but if I could give some constructive criticism I would leave a little more space under the horse’s head. I don’t know if the image was cropped there, otherwise of course it can’t be changed afterwards.
As long as it is constructive and substantiated I don’t mind at all!
I did not crop the bottom part.
Going lower would have included part of the hoofs/feet from the second horse, which I did not like when shooting this one. Including all or part of the hoofs and part of the floor just didn’t feel right when I framed it.
I agree that it would have been nicer if I pressed the trigger just a bit earlier and had a bit more separation between bottom of the frame and the lower part of the horse’s head.
