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Open
Model Calls

Please contact me if you and/or your horse fit the requirements.

NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED


Apply today! Will be booking select sessions soon.

1. High End Show Horse/Rider for Black Background Session
Horse Needed: AQHA, APHA, ApHC show horse type. Must be braided/banded with fake tail
Color Preference: Bay, pinto, appaloosa, sorrel with lots of chrome, buckskin, palomino
Location Needed: Covered barn isle. Nice outdoor area a plus
Tack/Outfit Required: High end western pleasure show tack - matchy matchy, flashy show jacket, hat, pant/chaps, etc.

Description of session: Horse needed for a black background session. Will be taking full body, portrait, and head shots for portfolio purposes. Will be focusing on horse only photos but would like to do horse and rider photos as well for the right pair/matchy matchy outfit and tack.

Compensation: Fully edited digital photos will be given in exchange for your time. Photos will be used to promote this type of session and for portfolio purposes.

2. Horse and Rider for Equestrian Lifestyle Session
Horse Needed: Show horse type - AQHA, APHA, ApHC, Warmblood, Friesian, etc. 
Color Preference: Any
Location Needed: Higher end barn (Similar to Windemere Equestrian Center or Five Fillies Farm
Tack Required: Full English tack - very clean (Looking for higher end if possible) Dressage, hunter, or jumper preferred. 
Rider Required: Looking for a female between ages 16-40, 20s preferred, with modern riding clothes. Well styled and neat looking. Breeches, tall boots, and helmet a must. (Please send photos of outfits) Great opportunity for an aspiring model.

Description of session: Horse and rider needed for an equestrian lifestyle session. Will be taking photos of a daily routine for a rider including but not limited to: catching, grooming, saddling, lunging, riding, washing, chores, etc. Will be at least a 1-2 hour session to get all the shots. High end barn/nice looking pastures preferred to provide the backdrop required. Will be submitted to magazines so must sign a model release form.


Compensation: Fully edited digital photos will be given in exchange for your time. Photos will be submitted to magazines for publishing. (Publishing not guaranteed*)
 

3. Reining Horse or Friesian at Liberty for Videography

Horse Needed: Reining - AQHA, APHA, ApHC (flashy preferred) or Friesian for at liberty work. Long mane a must.
Color Preference: Any color for reining but flashy or chrome preferred. 
Location Needed: Reining - dirt/clay fenced riding area with good evening light \ Friesian - grass pasture - oak trees a plus.
Tack Required: Reining - show reining tack/show pad/outfit and must be colorful. Friesian - no tack.

Description of session: Horse needed for videography session. Will be used to compile into a "highlight" type clip set to music. For reining, would like all gaits, sliding stops, and pivots. For Friesian, would love their prancy trots and canters. Flowy mane shots and overall regal looking movements.

Compensation: Video clips and/or final edited will be given in exchange for your time. If the video does not turn out how I would like, the video clips only will be given. Video will be used to promote this type of session and for portfolio purposes.

 

4. Horse & Rider for Western Ranch Outdoor Session
Horse Needed: Any breed - ranch/reining horse type preferred
Color Preference: Any coat color/pattern, but flashy is a big plus - must be well muscled
Location Needed: VERY large field (like a crop field) with good evening light. A pond or single large oak or other tree in a large field would be ideal
Tack Required: Working western tack - ranch style for cowboy look (not barrel racer type)

Description of session: Horse and rider pair needed for wide shot outdoor session. Want to focus on the landscape with addition of horse and rider. Casual and natural poses only such as grazing, sitting in the grass, galloping, reflecting in water, relaxing, etc. Rider preferred to be in ranch attire or western wear long dress.

Compensation: Fully edited digital photos will be given in exchange for your time. Photos will be used to promote this type of session and for portfolio purposes.

5. Stallion for Stallion Branding Session + Video
Horse Needed: Any breed stallion that is well built and good example of their breed.
Color Preference: Any but flashy is preferred
Location Needed: Nice green pasture for at liberty photos, a nice riding area for riding photos, and a barn isle for black background photos.
Tack Required: Ideally matching western or dressage tack set.

Description of session: Western or dressage stallion desired for a practice stallion branding session. Will take at liberty photos and video, conformation photos, riding/working photos and videography, and black background portraits. A nice matching tack set is ideal as well as an appropriate farm that has locations for each type of photo.

Compensation: A select number of photos and video from the session of horse owner's choice in exchange for your time. May be used for marketing the stallion with photo credit to photographer.

6. Horse & Rider for Parachute Dress Golden Hour Session
Horse Needed: Any breed - well built and long mane preferred. Must be okay with very  long flowing dress on their back. Also must be able to haul to location if needed.
Color Preference: Any coat color/pattern, but flashy or spotted is a big plus
Location Needed: Very large field (like a crop field) with good evening light. A pond or single large oak or other tree in a large field would be ideal. Can provide location if needed.
Tack Required: English bridle/saddle or rope halter and bareback (or mix)

Description of session: Horse and rider pair needed for golden hour session with parachute dress. Want to focus on the landscape and drama of the very long dress. Would like galloping and on group photos. Horse must be desensitized to long and flowy drapery and be able to haul to location in St. Augustine, FL.

Compensation: Fully edited digital photos will be given in exchange for your time. Photos will be used to promote this type of session and for portfolio purposes.

7. Gypsy Vanner for Unicorn Session (Photo & Video)
Horse Needed: Pure bred Gypsy Vanner - LOTS of hair and thick build.
Color Preference: Black, Gray/White, Palomino, or any nice solid color.
Location Needed: Picturesque pasture with a tree line - an be on a lunge line if no fence.

Description of session: Black or other solid color Gypsy Vanner with lots of hair to wear a unicorn horn for photos and video. Will utilize wire to attach horn. Must be able to run either at liberty or on a lunge line to be edited out. The ideal space would be a picturesque grassy field. Flowers, trees, and other foliage. Looking for a really magical and flowy look. 

Compensation: Fully edited digital photos will be given in exchange for your time. Photos will be used to promote this type of session and for portfolio purposes.

8. Friesian or Draft Horse & Rider for Gothic Fantasy Session
Horse Needed: Thick/well built Friesian or draft horse. (Spanish horses may also work. Lots of hair a plus.
Color Preference: Black preferred but bay or cremello could also work.
Location Needed: Pine forest of some kind or at least lots of trees with little underbrush.

Description of session: Gothic forest fantasy session - Need a female rider with a dramatic black dress, black crown, dark make up, etc. Horse should have fantasy tack (provided) and be well built and ideally black as well but bay or cremello could possibly work. Will want photos and video posing on ground and riding.

Compensation: Fully edited digital photos will be given in exchange for your time. Photos will be used to promote this type of session and for portfolio purposes.

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If the session calls for a specific location at your farm, please include photos of that as well.

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