Equus houses a large outdoor arena and a long corridor of indoor stables, both presented great opportunities to take photos. I wanted to get great shots but also created a large library I could play with once back home editing, as with all animals, you never quite know what you're going to get when you point the camera at them.
Filming was specially of a client (who had to be kept anonymous by use of camera angle etc) having a session in the arena, two horses were used. I managed to film them both rolling around as soon as they entered the arena, which was pretty funny to everybody. At the time my camera lens was quite wide so this meant I could capture most of what was going on in the arena.
The young client was fine with the filming however I didn't want to be to close as I felt a responsibility of privacy etc.
The Equus director John helped pick and choose shots to be filmed, however I would say 99% were what was going on anyway, such as the horses being led to the arena, the session in progress, etc.
At the end of the day I ended up with around 30minutes of film footage and however many I could count collection of photographs.
Although I did not have all the specific tools (as i was supplying all my own equipment) I still felt Id done a good job, and everyone was happy.
John wanted the client to give a quick interview on how Equine therapy had helped them, this I filmed from an angle behind and between the horse, so the client was stood and obscured by the horses neck. The sound was faint at best and I didn't feel to good about using it. Ill cover this more in the post production blog.
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