| Composition is very important in photography. Try to take photos of your pets with a very simple background so that it doesn’t interfere with the subject. I always find a garden with grass is best and someone to help you with a squeaky toy or biscuit to hand! |
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Framing the shot
Things to look for when framing your shots are –
- Have you left too much room around the horse?
- If you are aiming for a full body shot check that all limbs, ears, tail etc are within the frame
- Are you on the level of the horse?
- Don't worry about Extraneous objects I will omit these features when painting the portrait.
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This photo is taken a little too far out, try to zoom in and fill the frame. When you do get closer try to be on the horses level and try not to chop any limbs out of the frame. |
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This is a better photo, we are on the horses level, and the horses are filling the frame. |
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Moving closer to your subject
Try and fill the frame with your subject, IF you are lookihng for a full body portrait the photo of the full body horse on the right woudl probably be fine, along with some closer shots of the head for detail. However if you had planned on a head study, the this photo is far too distant to see any detail.
A common misconception is that I can just zoom into a photo, such as the distant photo, and see as much detail as in the close photo but this isn’t the case. So get closer to your subject and fill the frame with the head of the horse. |
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If you are looking for a head study portrait, try taking photos closer to your subject. The photo above, although a beautiful photo, was taken too far out with too much background. |
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Move closer to your subject and fill the frame. If you want a full body portrait try to fill the frame with the full body, but try not to chop out any limbs! |
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Clients often offer to enlarge the image for me so that I can see more detail – again this doesn’t work, I can make the photo as large as I like but it can not add information and detail into the photo. If you particularly want a background in your portrait, take a second shot form the same angle, level etc and I can combine the two. |
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