Two passions

I went to visit my sister for almost a week. Her name is Tasha and she is the caretaker of these beautiful horses, she is very talented with working with them. I very much enjoy visiting and riding together. 

 

 Taking pictures of horses is one of my favorite things to take pictures of. horses structure is very different than people and other animals, so its hard to get all their unique quality's in the picture. It was early in the morning and we went out to get the horses to bring them in and they were drawn to the suns light for warmth. (it might look warm outside but it was actually pretty cold).

For the first two pictures I placed the sun behind the horses body so that the sun would shine around the figure of the horse, to make it look like a glowing effect. The pictures look like a silhouette but not as dark, and I like this better because you can see the details of the shining leaves. 

 

The Third picture I love love the sun rays, I only wish that they were more prominent, that will be something that I will have to research more. I also love how natural the photo is, often times when taking pictures with horses you get there halters, bridals and all there gear in the picture. In these photos my intentions were to take the photos natural. 

Please tell me what you think! suggestions? thanks!  

Introduction

Hey, welcome to my blog, my name is Hannah Grace. This blog is the beginning of a project. At school we are working on whats called "passion projects", what that means is we get to teach our self what ever we want. I have chosen photography. I'm specifically going into how to photograph with light. every day the sun comes up and goes down, and I want to use it to my advantage in photography.

I plan to take many photos and post them on my blog, good and bad photos, hopefully most of them good. I plan to talk about how to improve, to talk about my successes and my failures, and most importantly learn from those mistakes. If any of you fellow people have heard of the magic school bus, you would know Mrs. Frizzle always says "Get messy, take chances, make mistakes!", and thats what I want to do. I also plan to express myself though my pictures, learn to be a story teller though my photos, talk about styles I like, and styles I dont like, learn patience and dedication. In the end I hope to have a professional portfolio of my favorite photos.

I am really looking forward to working on this blog, evidence of that being that I want it to be perfect. I might just be a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to things I like, so much so that I have held off writing my first blog post to make sure I have the perfect words, kinda like getting a new journal that you dont want to write in it for the first time, because your scared to wreck the beautiful empty pages. but someone very wise once told me "you can't wait till your perfect to start something,  you gotta start and grow into it". So this is me writing in my first pages.