Foal

[murakozi]

I was looking for a picture I'd taken a while back when I ran across this one I took years n years ago at the barn. I figured I'd share it here for no particular reason:




The barn owner at the time had bought a big quarterhorse mare named Cascade. Not long after, we realized that the reason she was putting on weight was that she was pregnant. I took that picture not long after her colt foal was born. I went with black and white film in an attempt to overcome the low light in the stall without using a flash.

Comments

[thewayne]

I do like that photo. I've been working a bit on B&W effects in Photoshop, in December I picked up a plug-in from DxO called Film Effects that lets me apply a Tri-X 400 overlay and I really like the effect for outdoor shots (mainly snow), I don't care for the tone on people's faces. But it has lots of effects that I can work with, so I mainly need to work with it more.

Spousal unit and I were at Lowell Observatory two weeks ago and I was shooting the Clark telescope that Percival Lowell used to make some fantastic shots of Mars. My Canon 6D's auto-ISO gave me some shootable speeds, but at an ISO 0f 6000+, it has a lot of noise. The grain effect of the Tri-X plug-in makes the image work quite a bit better. I'll get it posted here soon.

[murakozi]

I'm still surprised any of the pictures I took of the foal that day turned out well. That one almost does have a 'graduation photo' look to it just from the lighting in the stall. For the record, that's his mom's rump in the bottom left of the shot. I was standing just in front of her hip with the lens through the stall's bars, shooting over her butt since she tended to want to keep between me and her foal.

There are a couple other b&w pictures that I took long ago that I rather like. They were taken when I was just trying to burn through the last few shots on a roll of film so that a friend could teach me how to develop it. I'm not sure where I've got scanned copies of them.