DPChallenge: A Digital Photography Contest You are not logged in. (log in or register) 
 
Challenge Entries
This image is not a part of any challenge.
Portfolio Images
Paddock-Idyll-10-copy-2.jpg
Paddock-Idyll-10-copy-2.jpg
jomari


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Collection: 2009 Archive Photo a Week
Location: Yendon, Victoria, Australia
Date Uploaded: Feb 28, 2009

Viewed: 436
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)

 Original image.

I can't provide shooting details for this as it was stored on a cd and brought back onto my computer and zoombrowser can't tell me anything about it. It would have been taken with a 1.3 mp Fuji Finepix, my first digital.
It would be about 3 or 4 years old. Those twins are 9 now.
Sharpen, brightness/contrast, crop - agonized over cropping out Trey, but decided the picture was too spread out with him in it. Clone, clone, clone. Got rid of wires, an old car, and a fence post which meant I had to manufacture some of the pony's neck. I painted the rough shape and filled it with cloning. Blurred some cloned bits in the grass. Border, resize, stw.

Please log in or register to add your comments!

AuthorThread
 05/28/2009 11:08:56 PM
Wonderful interaction between the different "animals". There's lots of stuff to look at without being overly busy. Great job on the cloning, I would not have known if it weren't for your comments.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/04/2009 08:46:11 PM
Great job removing the fence. I looked at the edit first and then the original... then back to the edit... then back to the original. I never would have guessed there was a fence there.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/05/2009 08:38:27 AM
Fantastic editing!! You really brought them all out so well, and you'd never know there had been all that other stuff in the shot!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/02/2009 07:43:04 PM
Excellent!! You'll have to teach me your cloning techniques..I'm not so good. :)

This really has a lot of emotion to it. The dogs, the horses, the kids, everything fits right in.

I noticed you cloned the boy out...good choice. Heh heh, not that he isn't cute, but girls and horses with dogs fit together well.

I'm marking this a favorite.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/01/2009 12:52:59 AM
Great job removing that fence. I can only see the faintest hint of where one of the wires was on the right horse, and only because I now know where it had been. Must have taken a lot of cloning work on that left horse.

The removal of the fence makes a huge change in this image. Instead of hanging on the fence wire, the girl now looks like she is dancing around in the field.

Message edited by author 2009-03-01 00:54:08.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2009 11:27:36 PM
I would be in heaven. Dogs, horses, little girls with braids. What a great shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2009 11:27:02 PM
Fabulous, how amazing the degree to which your crop created a compelling story! Such a great summer scene. Fixing the horizon helped too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2009 05:32:23 PM
Wonderful editing , marion - this photo is so much full of LIFE !!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2009 02:45:50 AM
Wow - VERY impressive cloning work! I looked at this edited version first, read your notes, then looked at the original. I would have never known that fence was there at all. Excellent work! And I love the carefree nature of this motley "gang" with dogs, kids, horses - what fun!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


Home - Challenges - Community - League - Photos - Cameras - Lenses - Learn - Help - Terms of Use - Privacy - Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2025 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 06/17/2025 06:37:21 AM EDT.