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By technical editor Matt Allard:Taking The Reins from Matthew Allard on Vimeo.
I recently ignored the old showbusiness warning about never working with animals, by shooting a story in north-eastern Japan on the dying tradition of horse logging. There are only six horse loggers left in the country.
Horse logging is seen as an environmental alternative to the methods that are used today. By using horses instead of machines, loggers can selectively trim out trees to allow for new growth, which helps to improve the forest’s health and biodiversity.
While it is time-consuming and not cost-effective compared to modern methods, horse loggers believe strongly in their alternative solution.
We joined Takashi Iwama and his horse Samurai King in Tono, in Iwate prefecture, to observe the life of a horse logger.The horse logger
It was a very cold and overcast day which made shooting conditions very difficult. When the light is very flat you need to approach the way you capture images differently. You can’t rely on the light to give you depth and contrast. Flat light and snow are a difficult combination. What I try to do is to use textures and foreground. What I mean …
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