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A Horse Story
A Horse Story
JunieMoon


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Challenge: Rural Landscapes (Basic Editing)
Camera: Sony DSLR-A100
Lens: Sony 75-300 mm f/4.5-5.6
Location: Ellington, CT.
Date: Aug 14, 2007
Galleries: Landscape, Animals
Date Uploaded: Aug 14, 2007

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Place: 252 out of 290
Avg (all users): 4.6667
Avg (commenters): 4.0000
Avg (participants): 4.6119
Avg (non-participants): 4.6929
Views since voting: 579
Views during voting: 264
Votes: 207
Comments: 2
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AuthorThread
 08/28/2007 06:47:24 AM
Hi Junie - i was looking through the photos in this challenge and noticed this was your photo. I had meant to leave this one a comment during voting, but I guess it didn't stick...so here it goes

I can see what was so interesting to you about this location - the nice warm lighting, the beautiful horse, the intense greens and blues of the grass and hills. The image itself didn't quite come together as I think it could have. Here a couple of things I noticed:

1. the positioning of a centered horizon often creates a static feel - placing less of the mostly uninteresting sky in the image would have brought more detail and life to the shot
2. the fence line in front is actually pretty interesting - a lower angle on this shot to bring more of the fence in view would have added some nice textures (everyone likes a barbed wire fence!)
3. even with all the sky and grass - it seems a little 'closed' - taking the photo down and moving back a bit to bring more fence and more of the foreground in view would likely help add those textures and reduce the bright sky
4. the sky seems a bit bright and seems to overwhelm the photo a bit - taking down the levels on the brights (or having less sky in view) would help here

It is a great spot and you did a nice job of capturing the warmth of the day. I think a few small adjustments would have let us see that beautiful story that you saw when you took this photo.

Peter

Message edited by author 2007-08-28 06:49:24.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/17/2007 12:11:49 PM
Too bright on the eyes. Maybe by adjusting the levels and the sharpening you could get more out of it.


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