painted ponies

[Jim Galli]

painted ponies​

some feral horses out near where I work.

 

[Winston Mitchell]

Terrific capture. I wouldn't change a thing.
One of my favorite subjects is animals in motion.

 

[John Angulat]

Superb image Jim.
They are so tack sharp they appear to jump out from the screen.
I agree with Winston, this is a keeper and I wouldn't change a thing.

 

[Clayton Lofgren]

Those are some good looking animals considering thay are feral, and well shot.
I have just spent some enjoyable time at your website, and will be visiting it again. Highly recomended to those that haven't seen it.

 

[Jim Galli]

Thanks all. This is atypical of what you will find at my site. Just having some fun with the D90 yesterday afternoon. And another....

fighting stallions​

 

[Asher Kelman]

painted ponies​

some feral horses out near where I work.

I like this image of freedom in our over-industrialized world. This is so different from the stationary glowing images produced by limited depth of field lenses that each write with their own signature. Here we have no lenses, we just are taken to a place to be present and bear witness to wonderful creature, free by the grace of God and the kindness of man!

Note that in this world, some flowers survive trampling hoofs. That idea is worth pondering!

Here endeth the lesson!

Asher

 

[Ruben Alfu]

That´s a beautiful and inspiring capture Jim, thanks for sharing.

 

[Cody White]

Very Nice, I agree it's a keeper.

Just one question, is that a brand on the hind quarter of the one?

 

[Cedric MASSOULIER]

Hi,

Wonderful colors and light, this scene is so realistic and salvage !

Cedric.

 

[Winston Mitchell]

Very Nice, I agree it's a keeper.

Just one question, is that a brand on the hind quarter of the one?

The muddy one appears to be branded with the letter "B".

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

Jim

I love these being an equestrian-
lovely catch of wild things-

Charlotte-

 

[Jim Galli]

Thanks folks. I don't know what the brand mark means. These horses are on BLM lands. I wonder if the BLM keeps track of some of the stallions maybe.

 

[Valentin Arfire]

hi Jim - the picures are inspiring and very interesting. I know it is really difficult to take sharp pictures of animals and to shot the instant grimaces and gestures they do.
I'm curious how many shots you took at that occasion - how long it was - and also some technical details: which camera/lens you used, stop ISO and time, what were you thinking/feeling at the time
thank you for sharing them

 

[Jim Galli]

hi Jim - the picures are inspiring and very interesting. I know it is really difficult to take sharp pictures of animals and to shot the instant grimaces and gestures they do.
I'm curious how many shots you took at that occasion - how long it was - and also some technical details: which camera/lens you used, stop ISO and time, what were you thinking/feeling at the time
thank you for sharing them

Thanks for asking. I'll dis-appoint perhaps in telling you that the wild horses are awfully ordinary to us here. This wasn't a spriritual experience. I had seen this group standing down on a dry lake bed. They feel the same about me as I do about them, so to get any action at all, I got out of the car and began to walk rapidly in their direction. They are wild creatures so they only let you get so close, and then they move. I gave chase in order to get them moving. Then the 2 stallions got into it about who was in charge, which was of course just what I was hoping for.

Camera was a Nikon D90 with the cheeseball 18 - 105mm lens that they almost give away to call it a "kit". I set it to aperture priority wide open and set the white balance to cloudy. I put it on Multiple High I think, (or whatever it's called when it's taking pics as long as the button is held down.) I think I probably did 80 - 120 shots (including some multi exp wild flowers on the same frame). ISO 400. I did some enhancing in CS3 including darkening the sky and the near orange flowers and punching up the already nice colors.

How long, about a half hour including going after the camera. I didn't have it in the car with me.

 

[Valentin Arfire]

great - thank you for sharing - I will try some of those ideas

watching a little over your website... I feel humble
good light