Showing posts with label horses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horses. Show all posts

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Horses...

...some with lot's of personality.

Beans


Thomas


Jazzy (She always has that crazy look in her eyes.)


Willie (Who is a little old man and gets his own bucket of grain, separate from the rest of the schoolies.)


Dezi (Another school pony, who is a complete bitch until you get on her, then she's a dream. She used to live in a stall, but she practically killed people when they went in to get her. So now she lives with the other schoolies in the field, where I suspect she is a bit of an alpha - But I guess not, since my girl just told me that Dezi is actually at the bottom of the already established hierarchy and therefore is now easily caught since she is anxious to get the heck out of that field.)


I'll spare you the shot of Deidre sticking her butt up to the fence between the mare and gelding field. She's in heat, and at one point I thought she was going to knock the fence down. Thomas merely enjoyed biting on her blanket above her tail, since he is inclined to chew on everything. I guess she had to take what she could get.

Instead, I give you Choco, the barn dog. Last one at the barn at night tucks him in the heated tack room.

Monday, December 3, 2007

The Boys

After shooting Red Barn 108, and a quick stop at 7-Eleven, I dropped Equus at her barn, and took a few minutes to get some shots of her and her *boys*. (These are the kind of boys that you want your thirteen year old to hang out with!)

These animals move constantly! I switched to the sports setting, to try action program mode and caught some good ones.

Ugly

f/8, 1/80 SEC, 65 MM, ISO-400
Post-processing: None

Tennessee and Lippy

f/3.5, 1/40 SEC, 28 MM, ISO-400
Post-processing: auto levels, darken highlights, cropped

Bob

f/5, 1/80 SEC, 70 MM, ISO-400
Post-processing: auto levels, cropped

Tennessee

f/3.5, 1/100 SEC, 28 MM, ISO-400
Post-processing: auto levels, darken highlights

Boomer and Lippy

f/5.6, 1/40 SEC, 28 MM, ISO-200
Post-processing: auto levels, darken highlights

Lippy

f/5.6, 1/30 SEC, 28 MM, ISO-400
Post-processing: auto levels, auto contrast

And more Lippy

f/8, 1/25 SEC, 35 MM, ISO-400
Post-processing: auto levels, darken highlights, cropped

It was my intent to head straight home from the barn, but I ended up stopping to shoot this small lake, and then discovered, further down the road, an alternate view of Red Barn 108.


f/5.6, 1/50 SEC, 56 MM, ISO-800
Post-processing: auto levels, darken highlights, healthy boost in saturation, dry brush filter, cropped