I am using and Olympus E-1 and Zuiko 50-200. With the horses and dogs, I like to use the long lenses to keep the distortion down(that big headed dog thing) I will have to look up the exif, but, I had it on ISO 400, aperature priority, wide open(so, anywhere from 2.8-3.5) I tried to keep the shutter speed over 1/200th, and I think with the last one, where the sun came out, it got ot 1/400th.
It was good and bad that it was overcast. Easy enough to blow out the white areas on the horse, but, with the black hat and top, that always makes it more fun.
This was my first western style shoot. I know the hunters and the dressage stuff. QH people want a bit different look, want to emphasize the junk in the trunk of the horse.
He is a very nice QH stallion. All foundation bloodlines so he doesn't have those tiny chariacture feet that make a horse lame by age 3. This is the kind of horse I would look for if I was breeding working quarter horses. He has bone AND feet.
