Stand ******* you're complaining about my composition then you're moving across the screen
angry Dan hey guys welcome or welcome back thanks so much for joining me today
we're going to take you out on location in scotland to photograph a pony
so we're here with uh an owner she's gonna go and get one of her horses out for us and we're gonna
head up one of her tracks into a forest location we're gonna be using the forest tracks for today
i've got my screen recording we're using a 70-200 sony gm lens today on the sony a7riii i am recording
my screen that's what the monitor is on top of the camera i would not recommend it's very heavy
and you can't shoot through your viewfinder but hey ho so the kit we're using we're going
to have image stabilization on because we're not quite sure what we're gonna get light wise
it is very early in the morning here it's just gone seven am and uh yeah that's kind of it so
let's go and get the horse ready he's called harley and we'll go and shoot you can come on in
this is me and my new pony
that was a joke but i would oh 100%
oh i know we we're expecting you to come out of your bed
oh look at him he's like what are we
doing
so kind of just like when we photographed cal we're gonna keep it
yes keep it nice and chilled um no pressure to do anything i'll kind of find a composition
um and then well we'll just place him in and if he wants to take part he can take part if
he doesn't want to take part it's not the end of the world okay so i think we've got some well
we've got multiple lovely locations here so guys if you're working with a large animal you need
to be thinking about your distances a bit more because you're you need to be further away in
there for your relative distances for making a background blurry i'll link that video above are
really vitally important so you want to be able to set your animal further away and then you'll be
able to get your separation from the background so from where dan is now with the camera it's quite
far down to the trees over there at the back of this little alcove here so what we'll do is
we'll position harley somewhere around where i am maybe a little bit further away from that um and
then photograph with that as our background sun's nowhere near burning through the clouds yet so we
should be fine so we're using the photo halter i've got my camera all set up so we're at f4
let me show you guys so we're f4 which will give us enough area of focus on harley's face
we're at one 1/640 of a second iso 500 and you can see the peak for the sky in the histogram
so we just need to make sure when harley's in there that we don't have a peak in the shadow
area of the histogram so what we'll do is we'll set harley up and see what we are left with
bring harley i'll just kind of walk through so if we bring harley kind of round in a little circle
maybe with his body almost as though he's going to face straight back down the track but not quite so
hindquarters slightly to that side we want him stood he doesn't have to be square but front leg
square does make a difference to the final shot back legs can be doing whatever they really want
to be fair i'll say if it looks like we might need to move for a different position and then if he
just stands there chilling what dan will do is dan will go and be our noise maker with the camera or
you can put the camera down either or dan over in that direction kind of over there ish and the
aim of this is we've got him facing this way a bit but harley's going to turn his head that way
beautiful photograph everybody happy okay dan you need to get into your position
harley's like why have you got me out of bed for this
this is far too much effort for this time in the morning
yeah maybe a couple more steps around straighter
just a couple that's it oh look he knows what he's doing
can we reward him for that i'm big on my rewards
okay what we'll do is we'll just move him around slightly and we'll use this as our
background now so we want him but yeah so what we'll do is we'll position him kind of similar
to where he was just then because that sky is actually quite bright behind over there
so you see there's the light strip so it will do is because he's got white the flies bothering you
buddy what we'll do is if we switch his switch him around so his front feet are over here
behind quarters on about that angle try and avoid the sky dan i'll get attention down about here
just if we can rotate his hindquarters around just a touch perfect oh good boy
that's fine you can't tell
good good boy rewards that everybody
oh yeah so you can't quite tell god that's beautiful can't quite tell and you
can't really see the rope in it no it's so fine and we just take that out he's like i'm eating this though
so that's it for today we're gonna head back to the yard put harley back to bed because he wants
to go for a nap get away from the flies at the moment i'm gonna edit up some of these images
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