Aga Karmol Art

Ears Forward

Aga Karmol — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:40:17 +0000

In equine photography groups, you will notice one piece of advice repeated again and again: Ears forward! Never mind the composition, the light, the moment, the background, or the story... The obsession with ears forward is probably one of the biggest misunderstandings in equine photography.

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Open Editions vs Limited Editions

Aga Karmol — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:43:28 +0000

A photograph can be a fine art piece. And like any fine art – painting, etching, lithograph – it can have an “original”. Let me explain what that really means.

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Faking It (3): The Freedom of Fine Art

Aga Karmol — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:23:43 +0000

When an edit is done well, the viewer doesn’t see Photoshop. They see a story. When it’s done poorly, they stop believing it.

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Black Backgrounds cheat-sheet

Aga Karmol — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:59:56 +0000

The easy, fool-proof way to shoot and edit black background horse portraits.

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Faking It (2): When Art Pretends to Be Truth

Aga Karmol — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:49:22 +0000

She claimed to have tracked and photographed a snow leopard at 6,300m. Fame followed overnight — and then, everything unraveled.

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Faking it (1): Before Photoshop

Aga Karmol — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:29:12 +0000

In 1902, Americans admired a proud photograph of Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant, sitting tall on horseback at City Point. Patriotic, powerful, dignified. There was just one problem: Grant was never there...

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