Smitty
Well-Known Member
To take a few decentish pictures of your horse from various angles to put in your advert?
Have been horse hunting since October for a Connie type and am amazed at the amount of adverts with a single photo of the head/standing head on/rugged/at an angle/head over stable door/behind a gate does not give me a lot to go on and a request for further pictures is likely to brand me a time waster!
I realise that it may well cost more to use a few pictures but in that case a picture sideways on with the horse standing square and untacked is what I would find most useful.
There are some blindingly awful pics out there and I just can't for the life of me imagine anybody thinking they would help sell their horse. They range from 'arty' (grey standing almost head on with the winter sun behind it which seems to reflect off the pile of pebbles in front of it - fabulous picture but horse not at all clear) to the utterly bizarre - Done deal advertisers are good at this - horse's body but no head, people hanging off them at angles that make your eyes water and the best one yet, horse standing head on but photo taken just as it turned to bite its side and swish its tail so you just have to try and work out what bits go where. I mean why.
I did request further pics of one advertised on preloved. This was enthusiastically embraced and I ended up with several, covered in mud and tacked up (complete with draw reins), bathed and untacked, bathed untacked and plaited up, the only problem being every single one was taken from the same angle.
So please vendors bear in mind that most dealers use a pic of the horse from the side standing square untacked, and then a few of it moving/ridden. This must work for them, it could you also.
Have been horse hunting since October for a Connie type and am amazed at the amount of adverts with a single photo of the head/standing head on/rugged/at an angle/head over stable door/behind a gate does not give me a lot to go on and a request for further pictures is likely to brand me a time waster!
I realise that it may well cost more to use a few pictures but in that case a picture sideways on with the horse standing square and untacked is what I would find most useful.
There are some blindingly awful pics out there and I just can't for the life of me imagine anybody thinking they would help sell their horse. They range from 'arty' (grey standing almost head on with the winter sun behind it which seems to reflect off the pile of pebbles in front of it - fabulous picture but horse not at all clear) to the utterly bizarre - Done deal advertisers are good at this - horse's body but no head, people hanging off them at angles that make your eyes water and the best one yet, horse standing head on but photo taken just as it turned to bite its side and swish its tail so you just have to try and work out what bits go where. I mean why.
I did request further pics of one advertised on preloved. This was enthusiastically embraced and I ended up with several, covered in mud and tacked up (complete with draw reins), bathed and untacked, bathed untacked and plaited up, the only problem being every single one was taken from the same angle.
So please vendors bear in mind that most dealers use a pic of the horse from the side standing square untacked, and then a few of it moving/ridden. This must work for them, it could you also.
