A few days ago, I had the chance to do a pre-birthday photoshoot for a girl who was turning 15. She wanted her session to feature horses, so we arranged to do the shoot at a local horse ranch, a beautiful and well-known spot in my city.

I snapped the first photo off-guard as they were introducing her to the horse. It turned out really nice and natural.

Then we started taking more posed shots based on our ideas

the horse was really well-behaved, but it moved around a lot, so I took bursts of photos and chose the best ones in post-production.

For these shots, I used my Canon RP with a 24-105mm 4/f lens.

Once we had a few good shots, the girl changed her outfit and we asked for another horse for some variety.

Before that, I took these two shots of her without the horse.

Since she was wearing a black dress, we found a black horse to match.

I started by taking some photos of her walking alongside the horse, using the ranch's fences as leading lines for the composition.

Then I noticed the sun was starting to go down and I could create a cool lighting effect.

Next, I continued taking photos of the girl with the horse. For these shots, we positioned the model with her back to the sun and used the natural light as a backlight, which silhouetted her beautifully. I used a flash as a frontal fill light.

To wrap things up, here are two photos I really love because it almost looks like the horse was posing and smiling for the camera. It's super cute!

In the end, the girl was really happy with the photos we took that day. I hope you like them as much as we do!