would you use any of these pics?

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To advertise this foal:

Kali WB X Arab, wb mare by Dallas, to make 16hh+

Any idea of how much to ask would be greatly appreciated!
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Number 2.

Oh my! What a big muck heap you have!!!!!!!!!!!

I love your foals leg markings by the way.
 
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I was about to say 'pmsl i always think foals look really funny when they haven't moulted their lower legs but have almost moulted everywhere else!', then I thought ohhh what if you were being serious! Now I can't tell if you were joking or being serious
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Lovely foal, and I do think the price is pretty accurate.
Not too keen on the pictures (they are nice but wouldn't use them in a ad) the best one for the ad would probably be the second one.
If you could get a picture with the brightness of the 3rd picture (shows his colour well) and with him stood like he is in the second one (can see all of him and all 4 legs) with a simple background like in number 2 just without the other horse then brilliant.
I think the first one is great of him but the background is far too busy.

Good luck selling him he is lovely.
 
Hope you wont take offense but wouldn't use any of them, you see your baby every day so have seen him being cute, showing off, lazy days in the sun - erm well maybe not, but the buyer hasn't and you need to attract their attention with your advert.

My advice is make the effort, get someone to lend a hand, ask them to rustle a small plastic bag, a crips packet for example, a set of keys or something to attract his attention, take lots of pics, look beyond your foal and take in your surroundings, as most have mentioned the muck heap, think, were you even aware that it was there when you snapped the pic? Always have the sun to your back... have fun and be sure to come back and share :-)
 
No sorry I wouldn't use any of those photos. The foal looks cute enough but the background, and all the weeds in the field, would definitely put me off even calling about the foal, sorry.

Do you have a nice post and rail fence, or an arena with a nice backdrop that you could place the foal next to? Or even if there is nothing behind the foal but green grass and sky, that would be fine.

Also my personal preference is to not even bother taking any photos to use in an advert until the foal coat has been shed - I always think they look very mottled at this stage. If you can wait a few weeks then the foal should look much prettier.

Good luck - take a tonne of photos; I generally have to take 50 or 60 just to get 3 great shots. You just have to be patient.
 
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I was about to say 'pmsl i always think foals look really funny when they haven't moulted their lower legs but have almost moulted everywhere else!', then I thought ohhh what if you were being serious! Now I can't tell if you were joking or being serious
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Ohhh, haven't the legs shed then? Scuttles off to check out photos again.I was being serious btw, it looked to me like lovely long white stockings, maybe not though
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When foals get to that stage I just think of them as being attacked by a huge bunch of moths, when Isabella shed she went really dark around her eyes and I was terrified that she was going to turn from a palomino into something much darker
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Super foal - No I wouldn't use any of the photo's I'm afraid.

Bluntly - he looks as if he's living in some kind of scrap yard, and it would put me off enquiring about him.
 
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Super foal - No I wouldn't use any of the photo's I'm afraid.

Bluntly - he looks as if he's living in some kind of scrap yard, and it would put me off enquiring about him.

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I agree unfortunately.
 
Definitely looks like the legs have shed out to me too, LOL!! I can see white stockings (instead of blond baby legs) in the later photos and white splodges on the belly of the foal. We must both be deluded Enfys LOL!!
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I agree as well - I'd not use any of the photos - the weeds and mud would make me think that the horse hadn't probably been wormed or cared for properly.

Try and find a nice green hedge and stand him up against it on a lead rope - doesn't matter if you are in the photo - cropping the horse holder out of a picture is easy

Would also be useful as it's a foal you are selling to have it stood up with the mare as well so that people can look up the stallion details and see a picture of what the mum is like as well.

definitely lose all the muckheap, crap and awful field condition from any photo
 
cheers, I got a vid of her moving in the menage tonight which might yield something - I videao'd her for about 10 mins!

Sadly I've only got a camera phone..... am going to try and invest in a Nikon or similar, the photography dept at uni update regularly and sell them cheaply (by comparison to shops). Yes stone wall would be ok but with her going so dark I don't think it's show her off well and all the damn fields are a mess
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The YO's son repairs old tractors, landrovers and the like, as well as mechanicing and fixing cars and wagons (or building them) so the yards always full of bits of 'scrap'.

Hmmn think best place would be in the arena side where the breeze block stables are. Will get some more up when I can. She only had 1 white sock with ermine markings on her near fore.
 
Would agree with the majority of the comments I am afraid................and would really ditto what Opie has said with making an effort to get the foal looking smart and the background better. I know this is always easier said than done, but if you want to sell your horses you have to try your best............
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Take some new ones and share with us...................I know we are not all professional photographers but decent pictures make all the difference to buyers.

Good luck as it looks a really nice foalie.........
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she's lovely, I was randomly snapping and thought she was looking ok in one or two (ignoring the mottled effect) however didn't think about the background!

I got some vids of her moving in the arena, just trying to work out how to get a still from it! lol
 
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