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Photo Essay: Old Dominion Hounds (November 27, 2010)
Posted by KLM in Landscape, Old Dominion Hounds, Photo Essays, Rappahannock Hunt on December 30, 2010
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Twist & turn
Zigzag
The eye of the viewer can be guided by actual lines in an image, or by implied ones.
These two riders are stacked up on a slanted hillside watching hunting in the lower field. Your eye naturally follows them down starting at the rump of the near horse and then reversing at the lower one. It’s possible the horses are standing still, but the placement of the legs and movement of the tails creates doubt, so you follow the potential movement left and then right, instead of just left along the hillside and out, as you might if the far rider were absent. Read the rest of this entry »
Photo Essay: Old Dominion Hounds (September 25, 2010)
Posted by KLM in Foxhunts, Landscape, Old Dominion Hounds, Photo Essays on October 12, 2010
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The scale of mountains
It's a blue wall, but is it big?
One of the pleasures of living in the Piedmont area of Virginia is the constant presence of the Blue Ridge Mountain. It’s not a high ridge in this part of Virginia, but it is unavoidable. Though I see the ridge constantly in hunting situations, I find it a challenge to render well in photos. Often it is in silhouette because of the time of day or just simply flattened by the lens and made insignificant.
It’s a cliché that a landscape can often benefit by objects in the foreground, either to serve as a point of interest or to provide scale. In the second shot, I was standing lower than the stable, which was on raised ground. Without the stable (and the fence) in the picture to provide perspective, it would not be clear that I was looking up at the mountain. Read the rest of this entry »
Photo Essay: Old Dominion Hounds (September 11, 2010)
Posted by KLM in Foxhunts, Old Dominion Hounds, Photo Essays on September 17, 2010
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Shadow as second subject
Creative use of shadows
Always be alert for unexpected bonuses. I did not deliberately frame this shot to capture the shadow, too; I just tried to place myself in such a way that the subject was well lit. But when I looked at the results afterward, I was pleased to see two subjects striding along the horse trailer, not just one.
Picking hounds out of the pack
A study of hound heads
There’s a lot of action in a pack of hounds, but many complications as well.
No matter how small the group, at least one (usually right in the center of the frame) is doing something you don’t want to record for posterity. Even when they are all well-behaved, they may be arranged unhelpfully, with heads buried, shadows cast on each other, and so forth. Read the rest of this entry »
Photo Essay: Old Dominion Hounds (September 4, 2010)
Posted by KLM in Foxhunts, Landscape, Light, Old Dominion Hounds, Photo Essays, Photography on September 7, 2010
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Can you spot the camouflaged hound leaning on the horse?
Lovely hounds
This was the first day of cubbing for the Old Dominion Hounds.
As sometimes happens, all the hunting activity took place off-stage, from the perspective of the car-followers. We got to watch them leave and return, and in-between there was much appreciation of the lovely scenery and occasional faint echoes of hounds and horn.