Sunday Garden Section - Adding Unique Color To Your Garden
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Comment by Dusty:
Awsome! 10 just cause I like it soooo much. Great shot.

Samantha's Challenge
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Comment by C_Steve_G:
She's lost in the tree's foliage.
Image appears tilted.

Samantha's Challenge
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Comment by Tallbloke:
Ermmmm I'm sure others have pointed this out but to quote from the challenge "Capture a color portrait of a person in a studio-like environment"

sorry.............1

Samantha's Challenge
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Comment by Beagleboy:
Your outside. Challenge clearly sated that you had to be indoors. Also, the tree's sahdow fooled your camera and the shot is slightly overexposed.

The angle used to shoot your subject is too perpendicular to your subjects. A suggestion if you would like to shoot this again: use a low angle shot (shoot from on your knees, looking up) in front of the horse and just capture the horse's head , bridal (sp?), part of te reins and the rider from waist up. Another idea would have been a waist-up shot of the rider standing on the ground with both horse and rider looking (or not) at the camera. Both these shots would permit you to get closer to your subjects and put more emphasis on facial features.

Samantha's Challenge
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Comment by Nazgul:
this does not fit the challenge sorry!

Samantha's Challenge
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Comment by flip89:
A girl and her horse ... what a wonderful concept ... illustrating the bond between her and her horse! I see portraiture more as a photograph or painting showing the face rather than the whole profile and taken in a more studio-like environment. Perhaps a close up of her standing near her horse while petting the horse's face or neck ... I think that would illustrate the special bond between the two more, and also would fit the portraiture challenge.

Samantha's Challenge
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Comment by kevrobertson:
Doesn't meet the challange in my opinion.

Good luck though, will probably do better than mine...

Samantha's Challenge
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Comment by airatic:
While this would look nice on the mantle or in a family album, it's not a great studio portrait. The bright daylight washes out areas of the image, while her blak hat disappears into the dark foliage behind her. The focus is sharpest on the horse rather than the girl, where it should be the opposite. There are many areas where dark colors slide into black and light colors into white, making the image look flat. Her eyes are shaded by her hat as well. If you could have reflected some light on the girl from just above her in front, the image would have looked nicer, but it doesn't really fit this challenge anyway.

Samantha's Challenge
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Comment by Phileine:
you will get this a lot, but this doesn't meet the challenge at all. No studio, no special lighting and although it's a nice horse and a nice girl, the picture is nothing special.

Samantha's Challenge
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Comment by emorgan49:
Is everything leaning left?