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DsrtVW · February 26, 2010

Its early but it is what I have so far

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Horse Sense

VisualXpressions · February 26, 2010

I like the horses the best... I think it tells a better story, like 2 is company 3 is a crowd... and the horse closest to you looks like he is coming over to check you out...

The horse on the left is definately the odd man out... not sure about the sepia treatment

I assume you had a reason for doing it, crummy sky maybe

Good luck
Winston

lizzard_nyc · February 26, 2010

#3 works for me. I like the Sepia treatment btw.
Nice capture there.

richtersl · February 26, 2010

Horse Sense!

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The Sepia is OK, but I'm wondering how it would look in just B&W?

travelways · February 26, 2010

Horses

DsrtVW · February 26, 2010

Horses were my choice, the other was an unusual combination but the lighting just does not work.
Horses looked kinda bedraggled in color due to the recent rains. The sepia seemed to fit the mood. I will throw up a BW to see how it compares.
The one closest in the frames wants more carrots

Color

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VisualXpressions · February 27, 2010

color, definitely color, that is a very nice blue sky... most people are very attracted to blue... I'm not a fan of toning, and this image doesn't work well in bw... anyway I see more detail in the color version like the puddles of water and sprigs of grass in the dirt...

BinaryFx · February 27, 2010

VisualXpressions wrote:

color, definitely color, that is a very nice blue sky... most people are very attracted to blue... I'm not a fan of toning, and this image doesn't work well in bw... anyway I see more detail in the color version like the puddles of water and sprigs of grass in the dirt...

Agreed on the colour - nice blue sky, green grass (memory colours) and the "red" horses. Great "primary" colours!

Stephen Marsh

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/
http://prepression.blogspot.com/

zoomer · February 27, 2010

The horses, bummer that the feet are clipped. Since they are I would crop a bit from the top and a bit more off the bottom so it looks like you meant to clip the feet and make it more of a pano.

By far the Sepia version is the best, it gives the photo a certain "look at me" quality, the color version is oversaturated and the black and white looks very noisy and there is just no pop.

But the horses can be a really cool shot with a little fixing, nice job.

richtersl · February 27, 2010

Aside from the noisy sky the B&W is nice. After seeing the color version, I think that is the stronger of the two.

Did you use a polarizer when you took this shot? I get noisy skies like that at times when I use a polarizer and convert it to B&W. It has something to do with the red channel but I haven't figured out a good way to fix it. Maybe try applying a green filter in PP?

DsrtVW · February 27, 2010

Yes I have been troubled lately with what looks like noise in my skies. Need to do selective GB or something. You cant see it in the color but the BW conversion picks it up. Something we can work on for final cut. Still working on and looking for other candidates.
Thanks Linda

dlplumer · February 27, 2010

Love the horses concept

mcsmith22 · February 27, 2010

All the photos look great! I really like the sepia tone on the horses. It seems you've captured their moods perfectly. Some are inquisitive, some are stand-offish and some just look bored.
Mary

bf2015 · February 27, 2010

+1 for sepia!

sunflowerstudio · February 28, 2010

I like the color version. But, I almost never like sepia.

travelways · February 28, 2010

Color

BinaryFx · March 1, 2010

DsrtVW wrote:

Yes I have been troubled lately with what looks like noise in my skies.

The noise comes from the red channel, if your monotones are having noisy sky, then the bias in the conversion is coming from the sky. You can make your conversions favour the other two channels more so that you have less noise in the sky, however that may reduce the drama of the sky somewhat. Before going into agressive luminosity or single channel noise reduction, try running higher color/chroma noise reduction in your raw converter or manually in Photoshop as in the link below (smoothing with a color blend or in Lab color mode to the AB channels).

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/howto_colourblur.html

Regards,

Stephen Marsh

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/
http://prepression.blogspot.com/

AndMan · March 1, 2010

Another vote for the sepia version.

jwear · March 1, 2010

color

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