Horse Photos

Jamie1989 · Apr 30, 2014

Hey. This is my horse Diablo. There not great but I thought I would share some photos.
Please Critique if you would like to.

timor · Apr 30, 2014

What is it ? Morgan ?

mmaria · Apr 30, 2014

Why crop like this?

Jamie1989 · Apr 30, 2014

I didn't crop them....

Timor he is a Paint.

timor · Apr 30, 2014

Looks like Diablo is a stallion. Registered ? I heard, that Paints are great general use horses.

Jamie1989 · Apr 30, 2014

No he's not a stallion. He is not registered. Do you have horses?

Jamie1989 · Apr 30, 2014

Mmaria if you have any suggestions I would love to hear them. I'm still pretty new to this so any help would be great

timor · May 1, 2014

Jamie1989 said:
No he's not a stallion. He is not registered. Do you have horses?

No, I don't have horses, but long ago in my old country I work on the farm and we had several horses including two registered mares. They were mostly for show, but in the spring and summer used for light carriage for managers and to bring drinks and food for workers. They were fun, too bad we didn't have saddles. (I guess for safety reasons :lol:

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Braineack · May 1, 2014

Jamie1989 said:
I didn't crop them....

who did?

manaheim · May 1, 2014

Yeah that crop is not helping the images. Any of them. You must have cropped them because some of them are different shapes. I don't mean offense, but you know what cropping means, right? (not talking about whipping the horse to make 'em go faster)

Jamie1989 · May 1, 2014

Yes I know what cropping means. I didn't crop them. I took these with my phone.

Austin Greene · May 1, 2014

How then did they acquire such peculiar shapes? Simply because a photo was taken on a phone doesn't mean it can't be cropped.

Another question might be why these are in the General Gallery and not the "Just for Fun" gallery.

goodguy · May 1, 2014

timor said:
I heard, that Paints are great general use horses.

Hmmm interesting, I know very little about horses, so what you are saying is that Paint is the 18-105mm of horses ?

Jamie1989 · May 1, 2014

I don't know why the photos are that way sorry. I didn't crop them. I didn't know there was a Just For Fun gallery.

manaheim · May 1, 2014

Poor Jamie. lol Sorry you're getting pounced on. We're all photographers here and square crops tend to be unpopular unless done for a very specific reason. So... the question is always "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!" And theeeeeeenn... if the answer is "I don't know!", then you have to deal with a bunch of photographers howling over your having effectively random results.

We're all just a little nuts, but there is a method behind our madness.

Basically, my advice to you is this... figure out why your "camera" does this, understand it, and make sure you know how to control it. Then make sure you know what you're getting when you take the shot and how it will affect the image. The latter part of that will take more time, but it's part of photography.

If you're just a snapshot kind of person, that's also cool... just be aware that most folks here are not, so you'll tend to get pounced on a little. Be patient with us. Again... remember...nuts.