The eye of the horse
Beautiful black and white portrait with the colour brought back to the bridal and horses eye.
Beautiful black and white portrait with the colour brought back to the bridal and horses eye.
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Location
The photo was taken at Blair Castle international 3 day event on 23 August 2007, I am a horse owner myself and love to photograph these magnificent creatures.Time
This was taken at 14:40, horses were in the warm up arena and were doing final practice and warm up in preparation for the Dressage phase of the competition.Lighting
It was a nice sunny August afternoon with good lighting conditions, I was able to use an ISO of 200 shutter speed of 1/320 and aperture of f6.3Equipment
I used a Canon EOS 1D MK II using a canon 100 - 400 zoom set at 210mmInspiration
I love horses and take any opportunity I can to capture there beauty, power and elegance, this was the first day of three I spent at this event photographing the horses, I have actually managed to get a press pass so I had good access to go where others could not!Editing
I decided to do some spot colour on this in Photoshop, I used a black and white adjustment layer and the used the brush tool to paint over the bridal and the horses eye to reveal the original colour. I was very happy with the results and had a large canvas print made that is still in my home today. Just recently I decided it might look good if I could make the background black, so again in Photoshop I used the quick selection tool and made a selection of the background, when happy with that I did a select and mask and then painted the background black and then deselected. I then turned the opacity down and continued to paint round the edged of the horse to blend the background and the horse so it looked seamless.In my camera bag
I have a Canon 7D MKii and a Canon EOS 1-D MK II with a Canon 100mm macro, 10 - 20 mm wide angle, 24 - 105mm zoom and a 100 - 400 zoom lens. I also carry a wireless remote and selection of ND filters.Feedback
To get this sort of effect you just need to find a suitable photo and just play around with the technique, don't start with anything to complicated, start simple and have fun.
