THE EDITING PROCESS

While your rider portrait session may only take 15–20 minutes at the barn, the true transformation happens once I begin editing. Each image is carefully refined over the course of 30–60 minutes (and sometimes longer), with meticulous attention to detail to create the polished, fine art look.

Backgrounds are replaced and floors are cleaned up or rebuilt to keep the focus on you and your horse. Blemishes are softened or removed, and the color is fine-tuned.  Lighting and shadows are adjusted to complete the final, studio-style effect.

Some portraits require even more advanced editing—such as replacing a leg, tail, or closed eyes from another image, or blending multiple horses together into a seamless composition. In these cases, a single image may require 1.5–2 hours of work.