{"id":97418,"date":"2016-11-14T07:10:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T07:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=97418"},"modified":"2016-11-11T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T10:11:32","slug":"backing-right-horse-richard-dunwoody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/technique\/interviews\/backing-right-horse-richard-dunwoody\/","title":{"rendered":"Backing the right horse: Richard Dunwoody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many will recognise Richard Dunwood&#8217;s name from his long and illustrious career as a champion jockey \u2013 riding to victory multiple times at the Grand National, King George VI Chase and the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1988, among other accolades. Some may even know him from his stint as a contestant on <em>Strictly Come Dancing<\/em>. What may be slightly less known is that Richard is currently carving out a successful career as a photographer. His new-found love has taken him all over the world, and he was even invited to speak at this year\u2019s Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) Summer Lectures in London, where he joined the 2014 TPOTY winner Philip Lee Harvey to discuss how budding photographers can follow their passion.<\/p>\n<h2>Turning interest into a career<\/h2>\n<p>Although Richard has become serious about photography relatively recently, his interest in the craft goes way back. He tells us: \u2018I had always enjoyed it. We had a darkroom at school and I did a bit of black &amp; white photography there.\u2019 Richard also found himself surrounded by photographers during his time on the racecourses. \u2018When I was riding, I had some friends who were racecourse photographers; my ex-wife worked for one of them (the photographer Mel Fordham), and she eventually became a racecourse professional as well. So I had that interest, and after I retired from racing I started travelling more and more and became interested in getting better images.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fair to say that racing horses doesn\u2019t leave you with any hands free for taking photos. In fact, Richard describes only one occasion in his 20-year racing career where he took images himself. \u2018I remember once, I think it was in Carlisle, Cumbria, going down to the last fence with Mel Fordham about halfway through the afternoon when I didn\u2019t have a ride in a race. I went there, and I used one of his cameras I think \u2013 but that was the only time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The idea to become a professional photographer occurred quite some time after retirement, though. \u2018I was travelling a lot to all sorts of different places,\u2019 Richard explains. \u2018I was working with a travel company called Wild Frontiers, which is an adventure travel company. We were travelling a lot to Central Asia. I had one trip through Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and into the Wakhan Corridor [the narrow strip of land in northeast Afghanistan that extends to China and separates Tajikistan from Pakistan]. I was looking for something I could do that combined travel and something I was really interested in \u2013 photography.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, after reading about it via a friend on Facebook, Richard decided to study a course at the prestigious Spe\u0301os Photography School in Paris, France \u2013 something that Richard describes as a \u2018full-on\u2019 experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They worked us pretty hard,\u2019 he recalls. \u2018There wasn\u2019t just the printing side, but we also learned Lightroom, Photoshop and were sent out on assignments.\u2019 Keen to expand his skills for travel, Richard chose to specialise in photojournalism. \u2018I thought it would go more with travel photography than the studio course,\u2019 he explains.<\/p>\n<p>Given his background, it\u2019s not particularly surprising that Richard has ended up taking a lot of equine images, but this doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that horses are his favourite subject. \u2018I\u2019ve ended up taking those kinds of images maybe because of what I\u2019ve done in the past. But basically, if anything, I prefer covering other things,\u2019 he reveals. \u2018I don\u2019t like to pigeonhole myself as an equine photographer \u2013 and there are lots of other great race and equine photographers in England.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For the past couple of years, Richard has been working closely with Noel Fitzpatrick, better known to many as <em>The Supervet<\/em> on Channel 4. \u2018I haven\u2019t photographed any horses in his surgery \u2013 [only] cats, dogs and the odd rabbit,\u2019 says Richard. He admits that there are similarities between the subjects, but with one crucial difference. \u2018It\u2019s easier to get to a horse\u2019s-eye level than to get to a dog\u2019s-eye level.\u2019 He jokes: \u2018They say you should never work with children or animals, but I try to make things hard for myself.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_97422&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-97422 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-bulls-herded-Camargue-France.jpg\" alt=\"richard dunwoody bulls herded in camargue france\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-bulls-herded-Camargue-France.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-bulls-herded-Camargue-France.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-bulls-herded-Camargue-France.jpg?resize=630,354 630w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-bulls-herded-Camargue-France.jpg?resize=900,506 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-bulls-herded-Camargue-France.jpg?resize=562,316 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Bulls being herded in the Camargue, France, October 2015<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h2>Being close to the action<\/h2>\n<p>Richard has worked closely with the horse and donkey welfare charity The Brooke. His work includes photographing exciting events such as the Mongol Derby, an equestrian endurance race through the Mongolian Steppe. On examining his photos from events, it would appear that Richard places himself in pretty precarious positions to get the shot, but it\u2019s this closeness to the subject that he believes makes the images worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m always quite aware that you want to get as close as possible, as long as you\u2019re not frightening the horses, which is the number one thing,\u2019 he says. \u2018It\u2019s quite good at the start of the race to get close to give as much of a feel of the race. I think it\u2019s important that you do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t think horses galloping past me is particularly worrying \u2013 I\u2019d rather they gallop past me than gallop over the top of me,\u2019 he says, \u2018which used to happen quite a lot when I was riding.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Richard takes inspiration from one of the greats of photography in this philosophy: \u2018I think that\u2019s the basic concept of good photography \u2013 to try to give a flavour of what it\u2019s really like, to get as close to the subject as possible. Robert Capa said: \u201cIf your pictures aren\u2019t good enough, you aren\u2019t close enough.\u201d So that\u2019s the thing I\u2019ve tried to do.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For other photographers, who may not necessarily have the same kind of background as Richard, he advises experimentation and bringing your style over from other kinds of photography.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You can learn other things, and try to adapt other styles,\u2019 he says, \u2018For example, I\u2019ve just bought an Elinchrom light and I\u2019m using it to do portraits of both people and horses. I adore portraits, so it\u2019s bringing those skills across.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If you\u2019re looking to shoot horses in action,\u2019 he explains, \u2018make sure you\u2019ve got a good shutter speed. I would probably go to 1\/1,600sec for horses galloping if you want to freeze it. But then just have fun panning. Enjoy taking images at slower speeds, like 1\/250sec or 1\/125sec as well. Try to mix it up.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_97424&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-97424 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-caleche-driver.jpg\" alt=\"richard dunwoody caleche driver\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-caleche-driver.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-caleche-driver.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-caleche-driver.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-caleche-driver.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-caleche-driver.jpg?resize=562,375 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">A cale\u0300che (carriage) driver washes the head of his mule in the River Nile from a riverboat, Luxor, Egypt, April 2013<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h2>Keeping it simple<\/h2>\n<p>When it comes to kit, although Richard\u2019s bag is full of professional equipment it\u2019s a relatively minimal set-up. He has three full-frame Nikon DSLRs \u2013 the Nikon D4S, D4 and D810. Richard generally uses three zoom lenses \u2013 the AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f\/2.8G ED, AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8G ED and AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8G ED VR II \u2013 which he feels match the journalistic style he\u2019s working to.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Recently, when covering the Mongol Derby, those three were my main lenses,\u2019 he explains. \u2018It was photojournalism really; it was to cover the race and send back images every night by satellite. To record the event and everything going on, those lenses work really for that, with one on each body.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Richard says he is considering upgrading to the recently announced Nikon D5, but is also tempted by smaller and lighter cameras, such as the Fujifilm X-T2, which he has been using lately.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019ve really enjoyed using [the Fujifilm X-T2] and have been impressed with the high ISO and speed of focusing, so it\u2019s something that I\u2019m eyeing up,\u2019 he says. \u2018If you use a camera like the D4S, especially for street photography, it\u2019s not the most discreet thing. So sometimes it makes sense to use smaller cameras. Also, when I\u2019m riding [Richard leads riding holidays], I\u2019ve tried using the D4S and a long lens swinging around my neck and cantering down the road \u2013 which is not particularly good for me, the horse or the camera.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>High ISO capability is important to Richard, as a lot of his equine work is taken under low light. \u2018The D810 doesn\u2019t handle it quite so well,\u2019 explains Richard, \u2018but the D4 and the D4S are good for early morning starts. You also want to use natural light rather than flash, as that would destroy the whole ambience.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Despite Richard\u2019s extensive travelling, there\u2019s one place he holds in particularly high esteem. \u2018I haven\u2019t been there for a couple of years now, but I\u2019ve enjoyed my trips to Afghanistan,\u2019 he says. \u2018I\u2019ve probably been there six or seven times since 2008. It\u2019s a beautiful place. It\u2019s tragic what\u2019s happening, but it\u2019s a place where I\u2019ve come back with some cool images in the past, and I\u2019d love to go back and photograph it more in the future.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_97423&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-97423 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-buzkashi-match.jpg\" alt=\"richard dunwoody buzkashi match\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-buzkashi-match.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-buzkashi-match.jpg?resize=300,300 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-buzkashi-match.jpg?resize=400,400 400w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-buzkashi-match.jpg?resize=170,170 170w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-buzkashi-match.jpg?resize=900,900 900w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-buzkashi-match.jpg?resize=562,562 562w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/11\/Richard-Dunwoody-buzkashi-match.jpg?resize=150,150 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">A buzkashi match played between Panjshir and Kabul, Afghanistan, 2011<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h2>Into the future<\/h2>\n<p>Next up for Richard is a trip to Russia to photograph racing for <em>Gallop<\/em> magazine, after which he\u2019ll be leading some riding holidays in Armenia. Looking further forward, Richard says he\u2019s still working on his photographic style \u2013 something he says he hasn\u2019t quite nailed down. \u2018I don\u2019t feel it yet, but I\u2019ll keep working at it,\u2019 he says. \u2018Give me another few years and I might get there. I\u2019ll keep getting better, that\u2019s the main thing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>As somebody who has had two completely different careers, it\u2019s easy for Richard to compare the two side by side. But is photography everything he hoped it would be? \u2018I\u2019d have to say it\u2019s bloody hard work sometimes, but I love it as well,\u2019 he says. \u2018I really enjoy it. I\u2019m competitive, and if some of the images aren\u2019t as good as I feel they should be, then it can have its ups and downs like any other job, but I think I\u2019m very lucky. Nothing will replace horse racing, but producing a good image is sometimes like riding a winner.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Richard Dunwoody retired as a jockey in 1999, and now works as a photographer across a range of subjects, including equine photography. His work has appeared in global publications including Tatler, Four Seasons Magazine, Outside and How to Spend It. To see more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richarddunwoodyphotography.com.\" target=\"_blank\">www.richarddunwoodyphotography.com.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Dunwoody\u2019s career began as a jockey on the racecourse. Now he has a camera in his hand. 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