This was taken at the pastures just north of Spruce Meadows in Calgary. Hard to tell he is just a colt but the full body shots had houses in the background that I didn't like and it was hard to frame the shot without them because of the fence.
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Place: 37 out of 121 Avg (all users): 5.9945 Avg (commenters): 6.7333 Avg (participants): 5.7424 Avg (non-participants): 6.1368 Views since voting: 1107 Views during voting: 311 Votes: 183 Comments: 19 Favorites: 1 (view)
First off, good choice with the B/W. It certainly draws the attention to the horse himself. It also emphasizes the fantastic sharpness of face/eyes/etc. I think the DOF is just perfect. As you can probably tell by the score breakdown, this is a good shot. In other words, most thought it was good, fewer thought it was great and fewer thought it was poor.
I think that the main things holding this image back from a higher score would be the composition and the contrast. Specifically, I think (as did some of your commenters) that more contrast would be preferable (especially, I find, with B/W images), and the composition isn't very dynamic (just a bit off center). Also, there isn't really any emotive element. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, just something that might give the score a little boost.
Overall, I think it's a decent image and it scored fairly well. Good job!
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