I have been awarded the Sunshine Award by Paola’s Horse Blog. Thank you! The Sunshine Award is for people who “positively and creatively inspire others in the blogosphere.” The nominee must do the following: thank the person who nominated her, nominate ten bloggers of her own, answer the ten questions given to her, and post them and the Sunshine Award button to her blog. Here are the questions: Mares or Geldings? Geldings. I don’t do mares well… unless they act…
I’ve always been a blog aficionado. I technically started my 1st blog in 2001 when they weren’t that popular, and have read different ones throughout the years since then. Now that I’m blogging “for real” here at SMTT, I follow a lot of equestrian blogs. At the moment, it’s up to 302! Of course not all of those are very active, but I pretty much glance at most posts that go up from those 302 blogs (especially Monday-Friday, I get…
I met Meghann years and years ago online in the cyber world of horse sim games, and have been watching her evolve in graphics and photography ever since. She even joined us in New Orleans in October, 2010 to photography my wedding! So it was a natural choice to interview her for my “Real Equine Professionals” series. Who are you and what do you do? 🙂 My name is Meghann Belser, and I’m the owner of Meghann Leigh Photography. I…
I know you’re all wondering who won the Horze jacket… so sneak on over to the jacket giveaway post and see who our three lucky winners are! I work a desk job… in a dark office without overhead lights (I am not exaggerating). On a day of long meetings or countless to-do’s, I often fantasize about what life would be like if I worked with horses. To help touch on that, I bring you my newest blogging series… Real Equine Professionals! I’ve…
Before my last show, I found myself in a little bit of a pinch with my show shirt. Pinch is a literal term here, because it was perhaps pinching at the buttons… as in it was too small. I didn’t want to spend a ton of money and I wanted a “fun” color, so I turned to The Collection Online Store after reading some positive reviews on Chronicle and seeing good prices. I picked out the Ocala Ladies Show Shirt in…
No matter what kind of camera you have or what it’s set to, arguably the most important aspect of equine photography is timing. Perfect exposure and clarity doesn’t mean anything if you catch the horse looking like a donkey when they are really a 10 mover… and that does happen! Timing is everything. Those of you with DSLR cameras are going to have an easier time with this one. That’s because the lag between when you click the button to…
Okay I’m a few months early here, but there’s a lot going on and I needed a pick-me-up. Since there’s two work days between us working folks and Friday afternoon – I figured y’all might need a pick-me-up too. There are tons of videos like this on Youtube, but these three got me all misty eyed, warm and fuzzy. I love these little girls. I love how happy and grateful they are, and I love that I still feel that…
Last week in part one, choosing a camera, my photography advice was pretty limited to those who were willing to shell out big bucks for a semi-pro or pro camera and lens. Don’t worry, I realize that not everyone wants to throw a few thousand dollars at a set-up. Today I will be going over general settings information that anyone with a camera can benefit from (at least I hope so)! ISO (International Standards Organization) Settings Confession – I had…