Equine Photography - Taos Art School

EQUINE PHOTOGRAPHY
with Carol Walker
Limited to 12 participants
Check our Schedule for dates
Feel free to call for details

Price: Tuition; $740., Book fee: $10.
Optional donation to Equine Spirit Sanctuary,
the Equine rescue facility in Taos - $25.

Lodging: THE SAGEBRUSH INN www.sagebrushinn.com
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THE TAOS ART SCHOOL

Instructor Bio | Schedule | What to Bring

You love these Creatures – Horses. They are so profoundly beautiful that it takes your breath away when you suddenly come across them running free in a field. From the palpable Spirit of an Andalusian Stallion, to the Sweetness of a Donkey, some of us are always moved in any encounter with the Noble Equine.

Have you longed to capture these feelings with your camera, but don’t really know how to go about it? If so, we invite you to come join us for a week-long workshop led by the inimitable Carol Walker. Under her knowledgeable and enthusiastic guidance, we’ll visit many different Equine settings to photograph over a dozen different breeds . ( and one surprise herd of buffalo !) See below for a schedule of our daily visits to 2 or more Barns, Fields and Mesas where all these beautiful horses await us. Our days will be full: lots of horses; camaraderie; and a few extras such as a tour of Taos Indian Pueblo , a visit to the Spanish Acequias, and the occasional picnic. One evening it is possible to arrange for an extra Sunset ride in the nearby mountains. On the last day, we will travel to a remote Mesa to see a band of Wild Horses for our Grand Finale.

Along with all this fun, you will be learning a great deal about the nitty-gritty of getting great photos of horses and their people. We start out with some detailed information covering all the basics you need to know as well as set aside time each day for individual evaluation of your work. Each participant receives a copy of Carol’s book : HORSE PHOTOGRAPHY – THE DYNAMIC GUIDE FOR HORSE LOVERS. This will be our guide for the week as we cover such topics as: Location and background; Setting up the horse; Sharpening your eye; Digital vs Film, Which lenses are necessary and how to use them; All about light; Explaining Aperture priority & Shutter speed; Using Photoshop; Choosing angles, Dealing with weather; Point and shoot vs SLR; Getting the gaits at their best; Approaching Wild Horses; and, how DO you get those ears up? This rich opportunity is intended as an educational experience and will not be set up for ‘Stock’ Photographers. *

Our class is suitable for all levels, from beginner to advanced. With the horses as our Muse, we all will succeed in our dream of expressing their magnificence in our images.

Come join us !

T A O S A R T S C H O O L
(575) 758-0350 URSULARB@Q.COM WWW.TAOSARTSCHOOL.COM
September 18-24 & October 9-15
Equine Photography with Carol Walker

		Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
			CLASS STARTS
AM	Breed		Discussion & Slide Show	Andalusian	Indian Pony	Arabian	Buffalo
	Context			Dressage	Herd	Hand-held	Open field	Breakfast
	Location			Paddock	Pueblo field	Private barn	Mountains	Departure
	Town			Taos	Taos Pueblo	Taos	Tres Piedres
	Other				Pueblo Tour
		ARRIVAL		Evaluation	Evaluation	Evaluation
		Check-in			Picnic		Travel time
PM	Breed		Quarter H	Rocky Mt	Peruv Pasos	Donkey/M	Wild Horses
	Context		Mare & Foal	Lunge	Herd	Hand-held	landscape
	Location		Private Barn	Private Barn	Breed facility	Private Barn	Mesa
	Town		Taos	Taos	Alcalde	Talpa	South CO
	Other	Meet & Greet			Travel time	Acequia Tour
							CLASS ENDS
	Hotel	Sagebrush	Sagebrush	Sagebrush	Sagebrush	Sagebrush	Sagebrush

What to Bring

Welcome to the workshop! This is a list of suggested items to bring to the workshop, intended to give you a starting point.
An SLR camera, film or digital, with lenses, at least 1 lens with 100 mm or bigger length. Best lens for horses: 70 – 200; For wild horses, 100 – 400 or longer.
Tripod or Monopod – I prefer a monopod – easier to carry and maneuver. This is not a must have but will improve the sharpness of your images.
A backpack or camera bag to carry your gear.
Plastic bag or rain cover for your camera and lens.
Camera Manual – very important – no camera works the same, and if something doesn’t work or the settings are confusing you will need this.
For film cameras: film, suggested speeds 100 and 400 and 800 - bring lots of rolls – you will shoot more than you think!
There is only one place in Taos where you can process film and that is Walgreens,
811 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, Taos - (575) 758-1704 . They do same day processing.
For digital cameras: Compact flash or SD memory cards with card reader – bring lots of cards – there are good prices on 8 and 16 gig cards now, fastest cards are SanDisk Extreme IV cards

A laptop computer OR storage viewer and drive like from Epson to download your images to – if you want to work on your images during the workshop, please bring a laptop so you can download and work on the images. If you are shooting film this does not apply. Strongly suggested – an external hard drive to back up your images or DVDs or CDs to back up your images.
Suggested program to work on images – Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
Please contact me if you have questions – 303-823-6642 or cwlivingimages@gmail.com
I look forward to seeing you in Taos!

Instructor Bio

Carol’s passion for photography started at an early age, with animals as her favorite subjects. She studied literature and photography as an undergraduate at Smith College, and continued her education in photography after graduating, studying portraiture and nature photography. She has travelled all over the world photographing wildlife for the past 28 years. In 2000, Carol started her business Living Images by Carol Walker, specializing in photographing horses. Carol’s images illuminate the relationship between horses and their people, as well showcase the beauty of horses with her stunning images of horses at liberty. Her commercial work includes catalogue covers for leaders in the Equine industry.

She has had numerous calendars published featuring her work, and she markets her fine art prints from her website www.LivingImagesCJW.com as well as in several locations on the Front Range of Colorado.

Carol has done presentations on equine photography and on wild horses at Equine Affaire in CA, OH and MA as well as at the Western States Horse Expo. Six years ago, Carol began photographing wild horses. As she followed several herds in Wyoming, Colorado and Montana, she became aware of how precarious their situation on public lands has become. Since then, she has dedicated herself to educating people with her photographs and stories about the wild horses.

Her book Wild Hoofbeats: America’s Vanishing Wild Horses is available at www.WildHoofbeats.com. The award-winning book was released winter of 2008 and is currently in its second printing. Carol just released her second book, Horse Photography: The Dynamic Guide for Horse Lovers and it is available as well as her blog with weekly horse photography photo tips at www.HorsePhotographyWorkshops.com

Http://www.livingimagescjw.com/

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* THE TAOS ART SCHOOL is a non-profit educational institution. Our goals are to: Enhance your photographic skills; Develop your visual ’eye’; Provide stimulating environments; and Encourage camaraderie. Knowledge gained at our workshops can be utilized to fine-tune professional talents as well as assist in everyday photography.
These workshops are not intended to build stock photography libraries and images taken at our workshop can only be used for personal purposes and gallery prints. The school neither obtains nor keeps on file model releases and therefore images taken during the workshops cannot be sold as Stock Photography. Attendees are encouraged to share their images with friends and family, create personal calendars, notecards, postcards, & gallery prints with these images taken at the workshops as long as those items are not sold to other parties as stock photography.