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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: mseawell on November 27, 2012, 05:30:57 pm

Title: Goodbye Horses
Post by: mseawell on November 27, 2012, 05:30:57 pm

This was taken on a beautiful September morning close to my house at the end of of a fruitless search for a nice morning capture. Goodbye horses, Rehweiler Germany.

Title: Re: Goodbye Horses
Post by: Chris Calohan on November 27, 2012, 08:39:37 pm

I love everything about the shot except it is way too oversharpened for my tastes.

Title: Re: Goodbye Horses
Post by: degrub on November 27, 2012, 09:01:56 pm

or compression artifacts ?
Frank

Title: Re: Goodbye Horses
Post by: mseawell on November 28, 2012, 12:58:33 am

Thanks for the comments. It may be a bit over sharpened! I kept going back and forth.

Mark

Title: Re: Goodbye Horses
Post by: geotzo on November 28, 2012, 04:56:32 am

My vote for this one too. I does look too sharp, but easy to fix. I sometimes get that, when I change image size for the internet and select Bicubic Sherper.

Title: Re: Goodbye Horses
Post by: francois on November 28, 2012, 05:39:22 am

I join the crowd! Beautiful image with wonderful contrast but the over-sharpening is obvious!

Title: Re: Goodbye Horses
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on November 28, 2012, 09:49:46 am

Quote from: francois on November 28, 2012, 05:39:22 am

I join the crowd! Beautiful image with wonderful contrast but the over-sharpening is obvious!

+1.

Title: Re: Goodbye Horses
Post by: Justan on November 28, 2012, 10:01:34 am

^What they said.^ A minor tweak to result in a gem.

Title: Re: Goodbye Horses
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on November 28, 2012, 10:03:07 am

Very good lighting and composition. I like te way the horse balances the road.

Title: Re: Goodbye Horses
Post by: shaunw on November 28, 2012, 02:45:08 pm

Another lovely image the light is very good, good tonal range you have great detail and textures but i feel you've over cooked the sharpening a little...all in all great mono.

Shaun

Title: Re: Goodbye Horses
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on November 28, 2012, 03:46:53 pm

Lovely pastoral scene, great post-processing (except for over sharpening).

Have you tried to flip the image? I think it would greatly improve the composition. This way two things lead to the sun first and foremost: being the brightest part, and the road itself. This kind of sidetracks the horse. Flipping would lead first to the horse and then continue exploring the rest.

It appears there was a split toning applied. It also seems it left some color cast in the sky?