This is my daughter Ellie and the pony she rides Patches. While Patches in not her horse technically she is her best friend and Ellie some day hopes to own a horse just like her.
This was taken at Gale's Equine Facility in the afternoon as the sun was setting, hence the shadows.
I rotated, cropped, adjusted the levels and applied neat image to get ride of some rough edges. The Neat image settings were:
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+25
60%
100%
Smooth Edges
High Resolution
125% Sharpening
And there you have it, I like the neat image application because it helped get rid of a few shadows and also blur the background. :)
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Thank you for some great ideas! I'm really drawn to this photo with it's brilliant colors, crisp lines, peaceful...relaxed expressions, and fine subjects.
Since I have lived outside of Texas most of my life after being born in Fort Worth, I still to this day ache to own a horse (as a best friend.)
Since my little JOY is only two & a half, I'm already thinking of great portraits for her as she grows. BINGO! This photo hits the target for me! In it goes to Favorites for future reference. Thanks again! :)
I know I already spoke but my you know what! Wanted to see this and the comments. She says very nice and very cool. She loves it and she wants to model for you on some thing like this again. She also agrees that you deserve somewhere in the top ten!
A nice picture, but looks like you used way too much NeatImage (or some filter). The soft look is appealing in its way, but you've lost the detail in the fur of the horse's face.
This photograph would fair well even in an advanced editing challenge. The smooth flesh tones almost looks as if it has been edited for advanced. I guess that is what happens when you take an almost perfectly focused picture. You did a great job on lighting the subjects and the colors are great. So much detail in some areas while achieving smooth effect in others. The only thing I can pick at is the over exposure on the horses nose. Great Job bump to a 8!
Good portrait. As a composition suggestion, I think it would have increased the impact if the girl had a hand on the leather thingy under the horse's neck.
I like this. Fantastic skin tone on the girl, the snow is coming out a little blue - stick a colour grad filter on there (possible slang name, ask around for filters which get the correct colours, mainly to stop snow showing blue) and the horses nose is a little overexposed. The background would be distracting (not quite blurred enough) if the crop wasn't so goodm, so well done. Overall one of the best in the challenge.
This photo is really nice and would have been just fine without that much processing. After the challenge, you might want to look at the original again and try processing it a little less heavily. But, as I said, the shot itself is really excellent.
Nice pose and colors, and nice models. But I think your neatimage settings are a bit too high. Also, it would have been good to try and fix the overexposed snout and the blue snow (that's weird, must be a white balance issue.)
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