Even though I love to take photos of horses for my paintings and meet each horse personally, I just completed a commission based on a photo supplied by the horse’s owner. Seems, I don’t have to be the one who snaps the photos I use for reference material for a painting to come out well! Boy that makes me feel sad, but happy too!

I’ve changed the wording on my Commissions web page…. If a horse owner would like a commission done from a photo that they send me of their horse, I’m ready!

Of course, because of copyright laws, I will need written permission from the person who took the photo(s) — whether it is the horse owner or another photographer — to use the pictures for a painting. Professional photographers may not agree — or may charge the horse owner a fee to use their photos . . . so . . . .

I decided to share some of my favorite tips for getting great photos of horses. No, a simple “Top 10″ list wouldn’t work for me! Especially since I decided to illustrate the tips with some of my favorite photographs — and I have literally thousands to choose from…. I’ve come up with 18 Tips. Yep! 18.

If you’d like to read the tips and see some of my photographs, the official link to the 18 Tips is located on my Commissions page: http://www.karenbrenner.com/commissions.html. (Sure I could have put it in the blog, but I want you to take a look at the new information on the Commissions page AND read the tips!)

One tip I didn’t put on the list — maybe because I didn’t have a good photo to go with it — was to get a digital camera. That sounds bossy, but it really is good advice. When taking photos of horses, often you have to take 100 shots to get 4 or 5 really good ones.The cost of film and developing can be expensive. With a digital camera, you can take endless photos. And you never have to print the ugly ones!

If you’d like to share your favorite tip for photographing horses, I’d love to hear it!

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