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Horse photo reference competition


This competition has ended. Please submit more horse photos on Horse Reference Pictures!

The goal of this competition is to create a huge library of free photos of horses. Few animals are depicted as much as horses, but it is still hard to find horses in different positions and from different angles, and the photos are seldom free to use in your art.

The current photos are on Horse Reference Pictures (or below).

Rules


§1 Submit the photos by adding a link to an Elftown wiki-page at the bottom of this page. All the images must be uploaded to Elftown. If you go to your house and press "upload a folder of images", you'll get a nice page automatically.

§2 If you have many pages, place them together and arrange them as well as possible. All the pages will be counted as your work and the more the better!

§3 You must have taken the photos.

§4 By submitting the images here, you agree on letting them to be free for any kind of usage. Elftown will incite people to tell that the images are from you and Elftown, but we'll not enforce that. So the images might be used for homepages, for photo-manipulations and drawing references.

§5 If there are humans on the photos, they should have given express permission to be displayed here.

§6 No horses or humans should be hurt because of your photographing them. And please don't kill yourself while crawling under horses either!

§7 Deadline: 2007-02-15 (Might change)

§8 The pages you submit must be exported. (Of course. Otherwise people would copy them to other webpages and neither Elftown nor you would get any credit for them.)

Winning


The Elftown crew will select the winner, and if you make a good page (regardless of winning or not) you'll get this nice badge:
<img:stuff/perhnebadza%20copy.gif>
(Make by [Zab], text by [Ocean Soul])
"Equinógrafo" is Spanish for "horsograph" or something like that.
And you'll get your name on top of Horse Reference Pictures, of course.

What we want are photos that are useful for artists. The photos should be pretty big, as sharp as possible and contain little more than the horse(s) and maybe its rider or wagon. We want many kinds of horses, but more important is that we have shots on everything a horse does and from all angles.

Your photos will be ranked higher if they are unique. So here is a short list of examples of what to shoot: from above, under, front, from the side front, from the side, from the back side and straight from behind: The horse can be standing, lying, walking, turning, rising up, falling, standing on its back legs, landing after a jump, walking on three legs after an injury, giving birth, hugging another horse, climbing a cliff, shitting...

Winners and positions of the submissions


Note: The poll below and the judge [Hedda] very much agreed on the order, and even if it was hard to judge, I'm very confident that the 6 top submissions also are the 6 best.

Winner [12345Jo]

<news:[Horse photo reference competition@wiki] ended!>




Second place [Demon Epona]



Horse References by Epona
Horse References by Epona


Third place [Zab], [Lady Di] and [Ricco]



Three people shares the third place. Impossible to rate anyone above the other.
Horse referense by Zab
Horse referense by Zab by [Zab]





Horses by Ricco
Horses by Ricco by [Ricco]

Congratulations!

Thank you to all that contributed!




Other contributions


Ordered after rating by [Hedda].

Horses by Nyaah* by [Nyaah*]

horses by hawthorne by [moira hawthorne]

Horse reference by that one fat bastard by [That One Fat Bastard]

Horse referenses icelandic by "Non Member" (Submitted by [Zab])

horses by atayemi by [Atayemi]

HorsesByKaelin by [Kaelin]

Horses by Tanka by [Tanka]

Horses by Lycaon pictus by [Lycaon pictus] (Note: Still not complete yet.)


Outside of the competition:

horses by hedda by [Hedda] (Example-submission)
Järvsöeldi and Timonella horse photos by [Hedda] Loads of photos of two trotters.




2407) (This is an advisory poll. The Elftown crew will sort it out which might lead to a new poll or some minor changes) Who has made the most useful horse photos? Please vote for the most useful reference photos, not the "coolest" nor for "people you like". (Administrator: [Hedda])

Number of voters: 24
* a) horses by hawthorne by [moira hawthorne]
Number of votes: 1 (4%)

* b) Horse referense by Zab by [Zab]
Number of votes: 2 (8%)

* c) horses by atayemi by [Atayemi]
Number of votes: 0 (0%)

* d) Horses by Lycaon pictus by [Lycaon pictus]
Number of votes: 0 (0%)

* e) Horses by Tanka by [Tanka]
Number of votes: 1 (4%)

* f) Horses by Lady Di Horses2 by Lady Di and Horses3 by Lady Di by [Lady Di]
Number of votes: 3 (13%)

* g) Horse reference by that one fat bastard by [That One Fat Bastard]
Number of votes: 1 (4%)

* h) Horses by Nyaah* by [Nyaah*]
Number of votes: 0 (0%)

* i) Horses by Ricco by [Ricco]
Number of votes: 4 (17%)

* j) HorsesByKaelin by Kaelin
Number of votes: 0 (0%)

* k) joneyashorses and joneyashorses2 by [12345Jo]
Number of votes: 7 (29%)

* l) Horse References by Epona by [Demon Epona]
Number of votes: 5 (21%)



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2006-12-31 [moira hawthorne]: that's basically my point...

IF the photo been USED to create new art... as reference for a CG painting... or a drawing... or as part of a photomanip... I dont mind if they dont name me... tho it be nice...

I know people who want their brushs they created linked back to them when they are used... but if you put them into your computer to use in photoshop ect... there isnt a way to note who's they were... and months later while working Im likely not to remember...

BUT I wouldnt want someone to use my photo without making it theirs in any way... and claim its theirs.. or their horse... I *hate* that kind of theif! its just so cheeep...

2007-01-01 [Hedda]: [moira hawthorne]: Manipulating a photo isn't "making it yours".

If someone is a lying bastard, they of course don't care about if the photos are free to use. So the conversation is irrelevant for the rules here. And I'm not going to change any rules, of course.

2007-01-01 [moira hawthorne]: you dont consider photomanips art?

I do.
I put a lot of creativity and effort and time into my photomanips. the finished art in mine.. b/c it never existed before I made it.. its greater than the sum of the photos used to assemble it...

and we are just having a discussion... I never said anything about changing the rules...

2007-01-01 [Hedda]: You don't consider photomanips art?

That's not what I said. I said that editing a photo doesn't make it yours.

2007-01-01 [moira hawthorne]: well I was talking about making art from the photo references... whether its photomanips or CG or drawing or painting or whatever...

you quoted one part of what I said and took it out of context...

2007-01-02 [Hedda]: Whee! This wiki-page has already started to appear on top of Google's searches for "horse photos", "horse photo" and "photo reference"! We're famous! <img:stuff/mood33-gif.gif>

2007-01-02 [Zab]: Yay! :D

2007-01-02 [Atayemi]: Whee! :D

2007-01-02 [Artsieladie]: Woot! <img:stuff/mood10_gif.gif>

2007-01-03 [Dark Side of the Moon]: Aw poo. My favourite subject in the whole world and I neither own a digi-cam nor live near horses. *sulk*

2007-01-03 [Hedda]: [Dark Side of the Moon]: I'm sure you can find some solution to that
<img:stuff/cheshmak.gif> It's not that hard to find a horse and you can borrow a camera.

2007-01-04 [Dark Side of the Moon]: Yes, I'm sure that I can borrow my parent's camera. Ooh, and I do work with a lady that has horses. Maybe it's not hopeless after all! <img:stuff/shadN-gif.gif>

2007-01-04 [Hedda]: I hope it goes well! I've just made Hand photo reference as there was no horse right here <img:stuff/zabuN-gif.gif>

2007-01-04 [Dark Side of the Moon]: Now there is something I can use! I already know how to draw horses but can't draw a hand to save my life! <img:stuff/br2N-gif.gif>

2007-01-04 [moira hawthorne]: hands are evil eeeeevvvvvvvviiiiillll I say!

2007-01-26 [Nyaah*]: ^.^ can i join the competition? i got alot of horse pictures from mongolia, and some from my own horses! though on the pics from mongolia there are sure people that i cant really asked if they agree with beeing displayed here..

2007-01-26 [Zab]: If you've taken the pictures it's ok. :) Maybe you can blur the faces of the people you can't ask to agree on being displayed here, just to be sure? :)

2007-01-26 [Nyaah*]: haha i dont think those people will ever be in the internet in their whole lifes but ok. though it will look abit weird i will blur the faces.

2007-01-26 [Zab]: I don't think it's necessary, but I did it on my photos just to make sure:P

2007-02-07 [Ricco]: I added some photos..hope they are ok!

2007-02-07 [Hedda]: Whee! More horsies! <img:http://www.cathug.com/kittyemo_fish.gif>

Very nice photos!

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