Hi guys welcome welcome back to another five minute Friday
with me Jessica McGovern international multi-award winning portrait photographer
and for Tuna the Spanish horse who's gonna help demonstrate some stuff today okay so in today's
five minute Friday i'm going to show you how you can make a equine photo halter by yourself
with some rope from a local store and put it onto a horse and take it off safely
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would really help me out without further ado we've got five minutes so let's get stuck in
first things first if you are not used to working with horses or you've not done it in a while
please do go and check out my part one and part two of equine photography 101 which will go
through safety briefings and important stuff that you're going to need to know okay really really
important okay so to do this you're going to need some rope now yachting rope is a good call but any
form of tough rope is basically available as an option of course horses you know safety first if
you need to have a higher payload on the weight that can be held with the rope then make sure you
make a decision on your ropes with that in mind okay so what do you need to do first things first
have safe hold of your horse as it is now and then you want to prep your halter you want to be doing
this at home before you even go out and meet the horse usually the easiest option instead of going
out to a random location in the middle of nowhere in a field in the wind but hey ho here we go okay
so i've got a few meters of this rope so it's a pretty long piece but all the length you don't
need to have this much okay it doesn't matter if you don't have this much so you want to have the
end of your rope okay have the end of the rope and then double it back on itself a little bit like
that okay and then you want to put a little knot in it just a simple knot wrap it around itself
and then poke it back up through now the main aim is to make this end bit the bit with the
hole as small as physically possible okay so it's still you still have to get something in there but
it needs to be small and tight you need to make sure that is really really tight very important
okay pretty much you've made your rope photo halter okay this is as simple as it is so
then what you need to do is grab your pony in my case obviously i've got Tuni Tuna's pretty good
but we are out away from home so who knows what's going to happen we want to do this as safely as
possible if you've got a horse that's head shy this is perfect head shy is when they don't like
their ears being touched she's kind of all right with it but some horses really don't like it
so you want to post this little ropey end up through the bottom of the head collar
up through the next one so we're kind of through and loose then you're going to want to just chuck
that over the neck okay if your horse is head shy go further down the neck and then we're going
to go back through so we basically got a mirror image here right so we've got the rope going up
and then it's coming down again back through this head collar loop when you get to here and
you're kind of underneath the jugular okay you want to grab your long end and just thread it
through the loop that you made so you thread it through that loop and pull a little bit
back through we'll post that again through the bottom of the head collar and slide that
it's not food and then loop that up over the schnozzle of the pony right so we've
got it over the nose and at this point all we then need to do is do a little
bit of wiggle a little bit of tightening a little bit of wiggle a little bit of tighten
and what we end up with is the halter going around the cheekbone right through the gap here
over the bridge of the nose and when you're at this point right her photo halter is on
at that point i'm safe because something's on her head to take off her head collar or her halter
or her bridle and i'm free to work her as i would if i was going to do something else so next step
and this is totally personal preference as to whether you want to or not i would personally
just have about arm's width right about arm's width and then make another loop basically
exactly the same as the first one that we made for another little knot okay now in this one you can
put a D-ring or a carabiner or whatever you want to put in there and then grab a long line lead
rope whatever you want to do i'm not fussy and you can put that through that loop and just like that
you've got now a photo halter which is positioned well on the horse to be able to basically grab
whatever shots you want to get and that's pretty much it for how to make it and use
it but we need to then also go through how to take it off we'll grab your halter or your head
collar pop it on like you would normally okay so we're just gonna put it on like we would normally
no change
so she's nice and secure lead rope back onto it like normal okay so from here i've got her nice
and safely she can't go anywhere all good and safe so all we then need to do is create a little bit
of slack by using our long loose end this one here so we're pulling that through a little bit
and then using that to loosen off the nose and then again working on the underside
so we're going underneath the head collar to unloop the schnozzle so we're now off
the nose and then all you then need to do is just pull your long end and keep pulling and
off it goes hits me in the face and just like that we've got it off without having to take
off our safety equipment and have a loose horse so i mean that's pretty much it to be honest
five minute Friday how to make your own photo halter way cheaper than buying one and getting
any colour super simple and how to do it safely out in the field invaluable what do you think Tune
okay hopefully that was helpful for you if it was please do let us know in the comments below
she's getting angsty so it's time to go in i'll
see you all again next week for another five minute Friday adios
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