When spending thousands of dollars at auctions, potential buyers want great pictures to showcase their product. But how do you capture a ram or a bull's best side? That's where livestock photographers come in.
While a picture may be worth a thousand words, a good photograph of a bull can help it sell for $100,000 or more.
But have you ever thought of the photographers behind the scenes and just how they manage to take such amazing pictures on the farm?When it comes to photographing stud rams and bulls, the biggest challenge for photographers like Andrew Morphett is just getting the animals to stand still. When filming rams, he often makes sure their mates are in the pen next door to make them comfortable, or he enlists the help of a working dog."It gets them intrigued," he says.Mr Morphett says the SheepMaster are one of the easiest breeds to photograph.The farmer or owner of the animal also plays a big part in that magic, particularly when it comes to precarious situations.
Jaquie Bateman got her start in the industry helping photograph livestock auctions for the Stock Journal.The hardest thing to photograph on a farm? According to Ms Bateman, it's not the animals." are very self-conscious.""A general rule of thumb when photographing a farmer is to give him something to do," she says.
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