Bad Horsie
Bad Horsie - 5.10 at f/3.5, ISO 80, Shutter speed 1/1300 second
I quite like this photograph. It's a rather heavy Selenium "print". Taken on the weekend when I was back home after the morning spent in London. This field is actually just across the road from a neighbourhood of houses. I think it's more of a retirement village, and I would like to extend my thanks to the little old lady who decided that the most appropriate thing to do when witnessing strangers taking photographs of a horse was to hurl abuse at them. Clearly the concept of photography was lost on this woman.
Shooting a horse with a camera is a little different to shooting it with a gun. I didn't even touch the horse. It looked a little to dirty for my liking. But nevertheless, she wanted her dog to "sic" me. Nice. He husband was no fool. He was hiding around the corner and peering out from the front door patio.
This image has nothing to do with Steve Vai's Bad Horsie guitar pedal, but I do love the name. The horsie in question was actually very well behaved.
One of the cool things about this image processing is the red filter I applied. That contributed massively to the look of it. It's also been processed with the Ilford FP4 Plus 125 film type. The toning is somewhat customized after applying the Selenium 15 Preset I got both the Silver Hue and Paper Hue to be equal in strength. Check out the modifications in the Silver Efex Pro preset below.
