Unicorn

[N80]

This was a grab shot of a carriage horse in New Orleans. The conditions were poor as the horse was in shade and the whitish buildings in the background were in bright sun. No time for multiple shots. I love the subject matter but just not sure if this works as processed. I could only make a so-so print. Interested in other's thoughts on this one.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

It must be a young unicorn, as the horn isn't very big yet.
Nice catch.

I might be tempted to crop it just about square to keep the attention on the horse's (oops! I mean Unicorn's) head.

[graeme]

It must be a young unicorn, as the horn isn't very big yet.
Nice catch.

I might be tempted to crop it just about square to keep the attention on the horse's (oops! I mean Unicorn's) head.

+1

[RSL]

+1

[N80]

Thanks for the comments. I will try a square crop but that will obscure the fact that this was not just a unicorn but a flying unicorn because the wings will be cropped.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

If you want to keep the wings, you might want to lighten them up a bit, or increase local contrast in that area so they are more conspicuous.

[Rob C]

I wouldn't crop; you could make a great difference by tweaking very sliightly in Curves. I love the overall tonality; it doesn't need absolute blacks and whites; take it from a master - no, not me I'm afraid - HC-B who specifically bade his printers to avoid those two end points. If sometime you look into my later Glimpsed Parallels galleries you will see that I am rather fond of apparent gloomy which, in reality, isn't gloomy at all, but has a sort of portent about it. As with your unicornic(?) phantasmagoria (it would indeed have made an interesting series).

Rob