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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: sdwilsonsct on June 02, 2016, 11:05:28 pm

Title: I dodged the horse
Post by: sdwilsonsct on June 02, 2016, 11:05:28 pm: Feedback welcome.
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Post by: thierrylegros396 on June 03, 2016, 03:02:01 am: Nice B/W contrast ;) ;)

Thierry
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Post by: stamper on June 03, 2016, 03:28:09 am: The contrast between the horse and the building make the image. An image that has you thinking which means it works.
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Post by: Paulo Bizarro on June 03, 2016, 04:11:02 am: Very good, it almost looks like the horse is waiting for someone to come out. I would crop a little bit from the right, and light the barn wall a bit too, to make the texture more visible.
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Post by: francois on June 03, 2016, 04:33:26 am: Love the luminous white horse in that dark landscape.
Well seen!
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Post by: brandtb on June 03, 2016, 08:09:40 am: Scott - really great subjects and comp. Not a 100% on dark/middle grays on barn etc - also I would look at it with the right 1/7 -1/6th cropped off. Since your barn subject is pushed all the way to left and horse is "looking" toward it on the left...what does all the space on the right do to support that? I'm not sure it helps. /B
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Post by: luxborealis on June 03, 2016, 08:42:17 pm: Additional texture in the wood would add detail, but more importantly, depth. That wood should sing; raising the shadow tones would do that while keeping the light-dark contrast that is working so well.
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Post by: graeme on June 03, 2016, 09:42:11 pm: Nice one - I agree with Brandt's suggestion about cropping it on the right side.
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Post by: sdwilsonsct on June 04, 2016, 06:09:25 pm: Thanks for the comments!

To me, the barn has enough detail in the first version. I didn't want it to compete with the horse. I have lightened it in the second.

The second is also cropped a little on the right. I had already cropped on the left to omit some junk, producing the unbalanced 1st version.
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Post by: John Koerner on June 06, 2016, 12:05:05 pm: I don't know what I enjoyed more, the photograph or the title ;D
Title: Re: I dodged the horse
Post by: James Clark on June 10, 2016, 04:42:48 pm: Quote from: sdwilsonsct on June 04, 2016, 06:09:25 pm
Thanks for the comments!

To me, the barn has enough detail in the first version. I didn't want it to compete with the horse. I have lightened it in the second.

The second is also cropped a little on the right. I had already cropped on the left to omit some junk, producing the unbalanced 1st version.

Great image and a fun idea! I suspect that seen larger (fullscreen or print) the barn detail is more easily seen and the subtle tonal variations liven it up more than is possible in a limited space.