Two horses at the local stable where they do trail rides through the Santa Monica mountains.
Per Deb's request:
Went back to my psd, but I don't think it has everything. Did 2 black and white conversions. Did a black layer fill, soft light, opacity 16%. Selective color, Hue saturation, levels. Duped the background a couple of times, one soft light, one vivid light. Added some layers, tinted but can't remember how I got the color. Color Efex darken/ligthen center, but should have moved the center to the horse looking at us. Slight Lucis Arts. Threw in a couple of textures. Brightness contrast and sharpened. I don't know. I just go wild sometimes and I don't know how I got there. :)
deborah this is brilliant .. its a fantastic photograph and the sepia processing is excellent .. i like how the horse is looking right at you .. horses would have to be my favourite animals after dogs and insects .. !!!.. i love this shot .. :)
Having just a touch of the great outdoors in the background sets the horses and stable into context. Textures on the ground against the smooth metal fencing well captured. Nice of the horse to look right into the camera.
"Hey why the long face"
Sorry couldn't resist that lol
Nice use of sepia tones here and I like the diagonals that you have created and the way the horse is looking straight at us.
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