Fames Promise
by boocowski

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Hehe, funny to see that I am also the only post-challenge commenter here. I am a retired horse trainer with a background in eventing, which includes dressage. Love, love, love everything about the horse and rider: great light on them, love the lines, the fantastic exposure, I think you were wise to desat. But the oof bg details are distracting which weakens the impact of what you have. Burning the bejeezus out of the bg may have worked best especially on the fencing at the end of the arena, where it meets the horse's eye.

I am very impressed that you got this detail at f2.8, I'm guessing a 70-200mm? Anyway, you got a magnificent capture here, and to be honest I never would have guessed an Arabian as this is not the sort of discipline you tend to see them in.

Great work, please keep it up and continue entering!

Susan

Andrea in the garden
by boocowski

Comment by Melethia:
A lovely portrait!

Andrea in the garden
by boocowski

Comment by Lydia:
7 from me. I love the colors... Beautiful model. I wish she didn't look like she were staring... a little more animation on her face, perhaps?

Freya
by boocowski

Comment by JakeKurdsjuk:
Great concept but the interplay between the gaze and the birds just isn't playing right for me to love it, and the feather sizes aren't proportional to the sizes of everything else in the image. More work on the birds and this could have been fantastic.

Freya
by boocowski

Comment by Wessam:
Multiple scenes, right?

Freya
by boocowski

Comment by clickodak:
I'm guessing the rule you broke was date deadline for challenge
Wonderfull photograph

Freya
by boocowski

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Lovely scene and a beautiful woman, but anyone who gobbles up birds out of the air scares me.

The edge of the water seems to end too neatly and I can see some evidence of it around her upper right arm (I didn't spot that until after looking at it for a few minutes, the 3 second voters will probably miss it completely). So I think pasting in the forest background was your rule breaking.

Freya
by boocowski

Comment by eniko:
A fairytale - beautiful and my favorite! Good luck

Freya
by boocowski

Comment by Melethia:
I'm guessing a composite - not sure if this is just breaking a rule or heading into expert.

Freya
by boocowski

Comment by GeorgesBogaert:
Here comes the blue. My only 10 in the challenge