How do you do this?

[JJ!]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40720382@N03/4321240023/

I want to make some of my horse photos like the above with black background?

Any tips apart from lots of playing with layers etc?

 

[Revels]

Flash under the stable door at the front, defuse it with a softbox or something and then just shoot fairly fast 500ths so that the background doesn't get exposed.

 

[JJ!]

Cheers Revels, lucky we don't ahve horses that are easily spooked lol!

 

[Jungle_Jim]

that pic just looks like natural lighting to me and then they have photoshoped the background with a mixture of vingetting and darking it to remove traces of the stable/barn

if you look at the next pic seems like there was quite good directional sunlight whilst still being soft

alternatively revels technique will work but there is something you need to change. You use the aperture to adjust exposure not shutter speed as most cameras have a flash sync speed of around 1/200, meaning if you shoot faster than that the flash will go off as shutter is closing and you will get a black band across your image.

hope that helps
James

 

[JJ!]

Cool. I don't mind giving the whole photoshop thing a try on some pics I already have!!