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I had some tack and "scene" photoshoots with my Breyer traditional model horses earlier this month, and some of the photo batches were about this kind of portraits and especially headshots.

The model in the photo is "The Silent One" alias Tassu; mold name is Standing Thoroughbred/Emerson and model name Winx. She seemed super photogenic when I used her for documenting my newest halters, so had to give her a personal photo session once the tack photos and riding scenes got done. Too bad I don't have a good studio space or a box, and no lamps near the horse (my current photo spot is on top of a shelf), so playing with reflectors - actually aluminium foil taped on cardboard - was more or less useless. That also is why I kept using flash as much as the roomlight alone, because Tassu's color is so dark and the lighting so bad that she mostly looked like a silhouette only...

The halter in the photo is not from the newest batch, but was made especially for this kind of photography. I usually don't make the chin strap adjustable (and only occasionally I make a complete halter entirely from leather...). What I find a bit absurd or ridiculous is that the halter remained slightly too large for Tassu's delicate head despite being adjusted to the smallest fitting option (no idea how to even explain that), and it obviously affects in how the photos turn out...

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I had some tack and "scene" photoshoots with my Breyer traditional model horses earlier this month, and some of the photo batches were about this kind of portraits and especially headshots.

The model in the photo is "The Silent One" alias Tassu; mold name is Standing Thoroughbred/Emerson and model name Winx. She seemed super photogenic when I used her for documenting my newest halters, so had to give her a personal photo session once the tack photos and riding scenes got done. Too bad I don't have a good studio space or a box, and no lamps near the horse (my current photo spot is on top of a shelf), so playing with reflectors - actually aluminium foil taped on cardboard - was more or less useless. That also is why I kept using flash as much as the roomlight alone, because Tassu's color is so dark and the lighting so bad that she mostly looked like a silhouette only...

The halter in the photo is not from the newest batch, but was made especially for this kind of photography. I usually don't make the chin strap adjustable (and only occasionally I make a complete halter entirely from leather...). What I find a bit absurd or ridiculous is that the halter remained slightly too large for Tassu's delicate head despite being adjusted to the smallest fitting option (no idea how to even explain that), and it obviously affects in how the photos turn out...