Ears Forward

In equine photography groups, you will notice one piece of advice repeated again and again: Ears forward! Never mind the composition, the light, the moment, the background, or the story... The obsession with ears forward is probably one of the biggest misunderstandings in equine photography.
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Open Editions vs Limited Editions

A photograph can be a fine art piece. And like any fine art – painting, etching, lithograph – it can have an “original”. Let me explain what that really means.

Faking It (3): The Freedom of Fine Art

When an edit is done well, the viewer doesn’t see Photoshop. They see a story. When it’s done poorly, they stop believing it.

Black Backgrounds cheat-sheet

The easy, fool-proof way to shoot and edit black background horse portraits.

Faking It (2): When Art Pretends to Be Truth

She claimed to have tracked and photographed a snow leopard at 6,300m. Fame followed overnight — and then, everything unraveled.

Faking it (1): Before Photoshop

In 1902, Americans admired a proud photograph of Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant, sitting tall on horseback at City Point. Patriotic, powerful, dignified. There was just one problem: Grant was never there...