# 5 re-take...

NanaMo

...as suggested by Liquid Air and Photogmomma I went back to re-take my picture and found this horse which had just come over the ridge, stopped and posed for me! Here is the horse and the windmill/wagon re-take.....did I enter the best one? How about the title?????

Your opinions are welcomed!! :bow
Maureen









:scratch :bow :scratch :bow

Nikolai

NanaMo wrote:

...as suggested by Liquid Air and Photogmomma I went back to re-take my picture and found this horse which had just come over the ridge, stopped and posed for me! Here is the horse and the windmill/wagon re-take.....did I enter the best one? How about the title?????

Your opinions are welcomed!!
Maureen

I like the horsie and the sepia windmill. Horsie is bigger and hence more powerfull. Maybe even tighter crop on it?

LiquidAir

Much improved.

The wagon needs better separation from the background, at least on this screen. It may just be a gamma issue, but I think the mountains need to be at least half a stop brighter for the wagon to pop. It is possible you can get that separation with curves in Photoshop if you draw them carefully. If not, it may be a masking job. I also find the balance to be a bit off in this shot. The wagon should either be a featured element or it should be cropped out. As a featured element I think it is too close to the edge of the frame. Particularly for a contest like this where the final submission is only 800 pixels, you have the freedom to shoot wide and crop later.

As for the horse, I think you try popping the contrast in the sky. I like the color of the sky, but I don't think it holds enough interest as is to justify the amount of real estate it gets. I also find the position of the horse in the frame to be kind of "neither here nor there." I think it is worth playing with crops to see if you can find one where the horse sits a bit more comfortably in the frame. A am afraid that is a bit vague, but it is the best I have to describe what I see.

NanaMo

Nikolai wrote:

I like the horsie and the sepia windmill. Horsie is bigger and hence more powerfull. Maybe even tighter crop on it?

Thanks, Nik....will try cropping and see what I get.

maureen

ChrisJ

My favorite is the sepia windmill. I agree that with the current composition, the wagon doesn't add much to the other shot... it mostly blends in with the background. I don't see an easy way to fix that and still get mountains and all of the windmill in, though!

I think the horse suffers a little bit because there's no separation in the back legs, it just looks a bit odd to me. Very pretty, though.

NanaMo

LiquidAir wrote:

Much improved.

The wagon needs better separation from the background, at least on this screen. It may just be a gamma issue, but I think the mountains need to be at least half a stop brighter for the wagon to pop. It is possible you can get that separation with curves in Photoshop if you draw them carefully. If not, it may be a masking job.

As for the horse, I think you try popping the contrast in the sky. I like the color of the sky, but I don't think it holds enough interest as is to justify the amount of real estate it gets.

Thanks for the suggestions....back to the CS3 drawing board....to see if I can make these suggestions work.....

That is actually the the color of the sky last night!! Will try to make it 'pop' a little more.

Thanks,
Maureen

NanaMo

ChrisJ wrote:

My favorite is the sepia windmill. I agree that with the current composition, the wagon doesn't add much to the other shot... it mostly blends in with the background. I don't see an easy way to fix that and still get mountains and all of the windmill in, though!

I think the horse suffers a little bit because there's no separation in the back legs, it just looks a bit odd to me. Very pretty, though.

Thanks, Chris.....the horse was obviously moving and that is the only pic I was able to capture.

Maureen

NanaMo

LiquidAir wrote:

Much improved.

The wagon needs better separation from the background, at least on this screen. It may just be a gamma issue, but I think the mountains need to be at least half a stop brighter for the wagon to pop. It is possible you can get that separation with curves in Photoshop if you draw them carefully. If not, it may be a masking job. I also find the balance to be a bit off in this shot. The wagon should either be a featured element or it should be cropped out. As a featured element I think it is too close to the edge of the frame. Particularly for a contest like this where the final submission is only 800 pixels, you have the freedom to shoot wide and crop later.

As for the horse, I think you try popping the contrast in the sky. I like the color of the sky, but I don't think it holds enough interest as is to justify the amount of real estate it gets. I also find the position of the horse in the frame to be kind of "neither here nor there." I think it is worth playing with crops to see if you can find one where the horse sits a bit more comfortably in the frame. A am afraid that is a bit vague, but it is the best I have to describe what I see.

Liquid Air, Nik.....bigger (cropped), brighter.....better????????

Nikolai

NanaMo wrote:

Liquid Air, Nik.....bigger (cropped), brighter.....better????????

Better!

pyroPrints.com

Freakin' nice man. (The latest horse one)

deeya

I love the changes with the horse... the one thing that bothered me about it at first... and still.. is the downhill angle of it (and the ground).. It might just be me.. but I'd like to see it so the ground is just a bit straighter...so the horse doesn't look like it's headed quite so much downhill. Just my 2 cents.

pyroPrints.com

deeya wrote:

I love the changes with the horse... the one thing that bothered me about it at first... and still.. is the downhill angle of it (and the ground).. It might just be me.. but I'd like to see it so the ground is just a bit straighter...so the horse doesn't look like it's headed quite so much downhill. Just my 2 cents.

I dunno I kinda like that part about it. If I was to do any change, I'd clone out that piece of cloud that's next to the ground. Make it a bit cleaner.

ChrisJ

The new version pops much better. Good job. The downward angle doesn't bother me.

richtersl

The new version by far is the best. A nice photo!

NanaMo

Nik, Liquid Air, chrisJ, Pyroprints, Deeya, Richters -- thank you one and all!!!! lustlust

I am now working on replacing the picture.....some troubles but I am sure since I am new at this it is just operator error but will figure it out.

Thanks again!!!

Maureen

BistiArt

Chutzpah

NanaMo wrote:

Liquid Air, Nik.....bigger (cropped), brighter.....better????????

Maybe the back legs work together???
After all, we humans lack a lock on all ailments...

Seriously, the pop helped as did the crop. Now the shot, which is clean and crisp, has more chutzpah!
So did the enchanted and emphasized light...

Way to go

NanaMo

pyroPrints.com wrote:

Freakin' nice man. (The latest horse one)

...be still my heart!!

NanaMo

BistiArt wrote:

Maybe the back legs work together???
After all, we humans lack a lock on all ailments...

Seriously, the pop helped as did the crop. Now the shot, which is clean and crisp, has more chutzpah!
So did the enchanted and emphasized light...

Way to go

Joe.....from your lips to the judges ears!!!

Strikeslip

I love the horse photo. The hair of the tail gives great motion.

That's a fabulous windmill. If I lived near it, I be shooting it all the time.

tlee

Horse--nice image