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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on February 18, 2012, 01:08:59 pm

Title: Kintail Ponies
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on February 18, 2012, 01:08:59 pm
Shot yesterday in the rain.

CC's welcome as always.

Dave
Title: Re: Kintail Ponies
Post by: WalterEG on February 18, 2012, 01:41:34 pm
Magnificently mythical.  Perseverence, great sense of balance and lashings of serendipity it would seem.

Cheers,

W
Title: Re: Kintail Ponies
Post by: Rob C on February 18, 2012, 02:49:00 pm
Agree with Walter - polarities notwithstanding - a very interesting image. It's one of those where the more you look, the more you begin to see in it. Not a lot of that about. Now, had it been Ireland, could have blamed/thanked the fairies, but in Skye... must be the effect of the mountains.

Rob C
Title: Re: Kintail Ponies
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 18, 2012, 06:55:15 pm
Great potential for further processing (or at least for us who are into it)!

Two front trees tend to dominate the whole image and I would darken them (as well as the rest of the woods, especially that clearing in the upper right corner. The two white horses are visible, but the three others are kind of blending in, and I would lighten them (all horses) to separate them from the surrounding trees.
Title: Re: Kintail Ponies
Post by: wolfnowl on February 19, 2012, 01:48:57 am
Great potential for further processing (or at least for us who are into it)!

Two front trees tend to dominate the whole image and I would darken them (as well as the rest of the woods, especially that clearing in the upper right corner. The two white horses are visible, but the three others are kind of blending in, and I would lighten them (all horses) to separate them from the surrounding trees.

I agree.  And I wouldn't clone out their front horns, either.  Pretending they're not really unicorns works to a point, but sometimes truth is more important...  ;D

Mike.
Title: Re: Kintail Ponies
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on February 20, 2012, 05:37:00 pm
Thanks all, I have many pictures from this session in the rain using my makeshift plastic bag rain cover.  ;D

Dave.
Title: Re: Kintail Ponies
Post by: jalcocer on February 20, 2012, 09:06:00 pm
I really like it, looks like a picture from a fairy tale book, just the horns missing, but then they would be unicorns :)
Title: Re: Kintail Ponies
Post by: Riaan van Wyk on February 23, 2012, 10:32:18 am
Lovely Dave- Walter's comment says it all.
Title: Re: Kintail Ponies
Post by: popnfresh on February 24, 2012, 08:27:38 pm
Two front trees tend to dominate the whole image and I would darken them (as well as the rest of the woods, especially that clearing in the upper right corner. The two white horses are visible, but the three others are kind of blending in, and I would lighten them (all horses) to separate them from the surrounding trees.

Slobodan is right about the shortcomings of this shot. Personally, I think they're too many to overcome in post without making the shot look off. Ultimately, I think the shot would work better with either no ponies or just the two white ones placed differently.
Title: Re: Kintail Ponies
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on February 26, 2012, 10:04:35 am
Slobodan is right about the shortcomings of this shot. Personally, I think they're too many to overcome in post without making the shot look off. Ultimately, I think the shot would work better with either no ponies or just the two white ones placed differently.

So that's total cut and paste rebuild then..  ::)

Dave