The best websites for photographers fall into two camps. Portfolio sites designed to show off your best work, and e-commerce platforms which for selling it.
Nico Morgan has been a photographer for more than 35 years, and has had his work published all over the World in newspapers, books, magazines and websites. He has had well over of 50 front covers of books, national and international magazines, including the likes of Horse & Hound, The Field, Eventing, British Eventing Life, British Showjumping.
Nico is a full-time professional equine photographer and shoots at least two different equestrian disciplines every week, sometimes three or four. He works as an event photographer at some of the top events in the UK and Ireland, as well as providing equine imagery for commercial clients as varied as car companies, equine supplements manufacturers and luxury shoe and boot brands.
For some time Nico has published free equine photography advice on his blog which has proved very popular. Now he is putting the best of it behind a paywall which is not, like most subscription models, a repeating payment. A one-off payment will secure access to this content for ever. While the quantity of those articles is relatively small the price is very affordable, but as time goes on and the amount of material which members have access to increases, so will the price of membership.
So if you are looking for an equine photography course - you're in the right place!
The best websites for photographers fall into two camps. Portfolio sites designed to show off your best work, and e-commerce platforms which for selling it.
One of the most confusing areas of etiquette for aspiring equine photographers is knowing how to legitimately gain access to an event to practise your equine photography without getting a bad name for invading someone's turf. This does not apply to most areas of equine photography, which take place on private land. You can arrange […]
Some people are happy for their photography to just be a hobby, but many need to make it pay. Here are some ways you can turn your equestrian photography into a profitable business.
This members article reveals the settings you can set up in seconds which will enable you to get great showjumping images.
Some of the areas we covered during the free training days laid on by 1st Class Images in March.
For any aspiring equine photographer, knowing how to photograph cross country fences to get the most from them and flatter rider and horse is essential.
This article focuses on how to photograph dressage and which movements photograph best when photographing dressage.
MEMBERS - Advice on how to take your equine photography to the next level
MEMBERS - an equine photography masterclass article about choosing the right lens for the right situation.
MEMBERS - Giving away images is the worst thing you can do for your business and for the photography professional as a whole.
This article is free to members. Photographing any big international event brings with it specific challenges. Covering large three-day and four-day horse trials is no exception. Although the title of this article is Badminton Horse Trials Photos. some of the challenges are photography related, others most definitely aren't! You need to be logged in to […]
Photographing showing classes is not everyone's cup of tea but the discipline accounts for a large number of horses bred around the World.
Read this guide for tips of shooting ridden showing classes on the flat and over working hunter classes, in-hand classes and driven classes too.
Photographing horses indoors is one of the most challenging of all the equestrian photography disciplines. Light levels are varied, but usually poor, meaning there is an inevitable trade off between shutter speeds and high ISO - and therefore noise - levels.
Regular posting to social media platforms can become a headache. Each platform wants images of different sizes and we also don't want our images to be taken an used elsewhere, so we need to set up watermarks too.
Adobe Lightroom presets allow us to export images in several different ways at the same time. This mini-course will show you how to set up presets
The event photographer's checklist is a short guide to packing what you need for a day's event photography, either as an employee/solo photographer or as the person selling photographs on site.
In this course I will try to simplify the process of purchasing a camera for equestrian photography by discussing the differences between cameras and the features which different situations and disciplines require.
A short intermediate level mini-course outlining a workflow for image file management, import, naming, storage and backup.