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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
This photo essay is posted at KLM Images.
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: Loudoun Hunt West (December 5, 2010)
Posted by KLM in Fairfax Hunt, Foxhunts, Loudoun Hunt West, Photo Essays, Portraits on December 21, 2010
This photo essay is posted at KLM Images.
Cropping for action
All charm and tilted motion
I typically come down on the engineering side of the analysis vs artistic spectrum, and this manifests in my photography as wanting to see the whole scene: the entire horse and rider, the full pack of hounds, and so forth. This is an artistic fault, I firmly believe. I know this because, whenever happenstance intervenes and forces a moving target to be cropped in ways I would never have planned, I am often much pleased with the results.
When I stand too close to the action with a particular lens and try to get something useful anyway, the image is reduced to its essentials. I don’t need to see the top of the rider’s head or the details of the horse’s legs to enjoy this shot. 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
The photo essay is posted at KLM Images.
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 »