Shows, rodeos and fairs pepper summer days into fall. Cellphone cameras make shooting a photograph easy. However, many of these photos are just snapshots instead of something that represents a horse and rider in the best light. Mary Cage provides good tips to use when photographing horses.
Source: American Racehorse, May/June 2016. (direct link unavailable).
Various factors could contribute to a bad photograph from poor lighting to a busy background or the improper set-up of the horse. Each of these would portray the horse in a manner that would provide a negative image, literally and figuratively.