Table portraits 2.

Here comes the second half of those table portraits with the ugly kind of bridle. Though, the bridle itself is different than in the previous batch.

I already explained what's going on in the previous part, so let's not mumble too much this time. I started the whole thing with color photos...

The horse is Verdades on the Salinero mold. I named my model "Rispetto".

...and switched to black and white, because that is what I eventually will do with photos like this. It's partially about getting fed up with how colors in photos will usually not match with the reality, and also to be able to focus entirely on the contrast.

I think I also got to use the manual focus with these. It is often awesome, but it is also difficult to use when you can't use a tripod. I generally keep the serial photography setting ready all the time, too.

The sad atmosphere is my thing, and I do not know why. Here I see I tried to make it look like the horse was rollküred by an ignorant rider. Fail. No reins...

This repetition of the nearly similar angles and closeups could be annoying in dA, but that is why I blog them instead. I can pick the best shots for dA then.

Here the focus could rather be on the hackamore noseband's buckle...

After trying to focus on some buckles, eyes, or whatever other details I try to find interesting, I often find the bits and shanks. The bit/shank options in my photos matter a lot, so do in drawings.

Because the horse heads and tack easily gets over-photographed, I can move my focus towards smoother things like the muscles of the sculpture and how my possible reflecting tools make the light behave on them. And when I get fed up with the greyscale photography, I start adding color, but still keep it monochromatic - my most prefered colors are blue, sepia and red. My camera doesn't give many options for honing the tone, so sometimes I may do that in the editing program afterwards.

I am happy this tone is possible right in the camera's settings - turquoise blue is among my favorite colors.

Soonish after - or already while - this photoshoot was taken, I may have started to make bridle buckles with moving tongues. I'm not sure about when it was, because I kept using some older bridles with outdated buckles at the same time with those. (That is a gone thing now - I can say I have updated the buckles to all the old bridles I feel worth doing so for, minus some which I will keep as is for sentimental reasons and as time capsules. I'm not a big fan of altering one's old work, even if the idea is very tempting.)