The long awaited, oft asked about, Horse and Rider Portrait Mini-Session will be returning to Ramaker Stables on Sunday, April 25th from 4:30 pm to 8pm. We will be offering 30 minute sessions for 75 dollars. The first session starts at 4:30pm and continues in 30 minute increments through the 7:30pm session. Sunset is expected to be around 8:07 on the 25th.

Your 75 dollars reserves your time slot, gets you an 8×10(or12) print of your favorite photo on Josh’s Special Metallic Print, and 5 Facebook Favorites to share with your friends and family. There will also be an online gallery of all of your shots to order more prints or custom items.

These sessions are a quick, affordable way to get great images of you and your pony! Think of all the hours you spend together. Let us capture the relationship of you and your pony to make your memories stronger with great images.

Portraits will be of the horse and the rider in one location. The mini-session timing does not allow for location switching during the session.

It is advised to have your horse and self groomed, ready to go by the start time of your session to keep this event on schedule.

Confirm your attendance on our Facebook page here

Questions can be directed to Josh at josh@azulox.com

Coming soon to a stable near you!

This Spring I will be doing Horse Portrait Mini-Sessions at some local stables. Ramaker Stables for sure and Rolling Ridge because I have some fans out there too. Are there any blog readers that ride at a different barn/stable that would like AzulOx Mini-Sessions to appear?

Oh, time to answer what exactly a mini-session is.

* 75$ to book your 20 minute time slot (versus 250 for the hour)
* Online Gallery for viewing and print orders
* Facebook Favorites – facebook friendly sizes to share with your network.

Dates and Time slots will be announced soon. Sunday afternoon’s are the preferred time/date combo.

Ok, Mr AzulOx, words are nice, but lets see some pictures!
done and done.

Thursday Night I headed out to Ramaker Stables to watch my wife ride her new horse Gus. That and I had some ideas of things I wanted to try with lights.
Basically, I wanted to treat the Horses like I usually light my Human Athletes. Give them edge and contrast, while bringing out the ambient exposure if its good.
These images are pretty much how they looked on the back of the LCD. For the Black horses, I added some fill. The White horse, toned down the bright whites just a bit.

The three light are setup in a basic triangle, two behind the horses and one in front around the arena. This gave me different shooting slots to get new angles without having to reset the lights. I have found this to be good way of shooting sports action when you know the general location the athlete will move through. In this case a 20 foot square.

Honestly, I didn’t plan on having a spectacular sunset backdrop, but I was prepared in case one happened. I had maybe 8 minutes of this light to work with. The rest of the night, the background/ambient was not so pretty.

Another example to always bring your camera, and in this case, your lights too.

The rest of the purchase gallery is here

–JB