Your Photos On Canvas

Horses have always been popular as photography and painting subjects. Horse lovers are as avid as cat or dog lovers to collect photos and art work that feature their favorite animal. Formal horse paintings of horses posed alone or prints and paintings of riders on horseback are classic art subjects.

A good way to obtain an unusual portrait of your horse is to photograph your noble beast using a digital camera and then upload and send your best shot to www.printyourcanvas.com, the newest website service that is part of the successful and well-know Paint Your Life photo to art online gallery (www.paintyourlife.com). They'll print your photo onto the best quality artist's canvas and ship it to you either in the frame you choose or unframed.

The key to getting the best result in this photo-on-canvas technique is taking the best possible quality photograph of your horse that you achieve. You don't have to be a professional photographer, but a little extra effort can result in a horse portrait masterpiece.

A Few Tips on Photographing Horses

A low angled sun (usually just after sunrise or an hour or two before sunset) is the ideal light in which to photograph a horse, especially a dark colored horse. The side lighting will enrich background colors and highlight details of the horse's coat, mane, and tail.

An overclouded or hazy day is also a good time as the haze will diffuse harsh shadows. One of the most common mistakes in taking photographs of horses is shooting them under a bright midday sun. The strong light will create deep shadows under the horse's body, or distort the shape of the legs, and the sun glistening off the shiny back of a horse will whiten and alter the true color of the horse's coat.

Remember if you take photographs of your horse in motion to put your camera on a fast or 'sport' setting and take photographs in bursts, so you have a wide choice of action shots to choose from for your final horse portrait.