The woman behind the camera
Hello! I'm Emma Wilding, horse lover and artist at heart
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In 2016 I started SkyLimit Photography full time after dropping out of college and working as groom for 3 years.
In college I’d studied photography (and amusingly enough, was failing the subject) as a way of engaging with an artistic subject without the same level of pressure that I’d felt studying traditional art at GCSE.
Of course I found a way to make horses involved in my studies (As I’d always done) and although I’d spent time playing with a camera at home photographing our own horses, it was here that I began to take photography more seriously - although I might add that they didn’t exactly teach us much of what to do in regards to technical skill in college, that came through my own personal study.
Since then my career has taken me in so many interesting directions that I never would have expected, from shooting low level local equestrian events, to covering camps and clinics, shooting countless portrait sessions and evolving those as my skill set and knowledge have grown to allow me to incorporate off camera flash into my work, to even having the opportunity to shoot dressage and show jumping all the way up to Grand Prix at a number of major UK competitions.
When I’m not behind the camera, I’m either spending time sat in the field with my horses, simply soaking up their beautiful presence, out for a walk with my little Jack Russel x Chihuahua Bob (who many of you have met when he’s been helping me shoot events), in the gym training for my other passion in life, powerlifting, or curled up with a good book to escape the world for a while.
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