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Do you have what it takes?
Do you have what it takes?
dragonlady


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Challenge: Stock Photography II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Olympus C-2100UZ
Location: horse paddock
Date: Mar 15, 2005
Aperture: f 3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/160 sec
Date Uploaded: Mar 16, 2005

 Hanoverian horse in his paddock...took this in late afternoon (one of many, many tries)..
cloned out a small area of background on left which was a little dark and distracting. used a little more contrast, then: I decided it needed more punch and I proceeded to check out a couple of filter effects, when I tried the watercolor with a size 12 brush, I knew that was the effect I was looking for in this shot. Despite the fact that I had read that use of filters was not looked upon well in a challenge, it didn't matter to me..the result was what was important.

Statistics
Place: 222 out of 258
Avg (all users): 4.8824
Avg (commenters): 4.6667
Avg (participants): 4.7951
Avg (non-participants): 5.0122
Views since voting: 550
Views during voting: 310
Votes: 204
Comments: 12
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/25/2005 06:08:27 PM
Unusual angle, piercing stare...nice shot!
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 03/24/2005 10:19:29 PM
I don't like much filtering use on images but this one seems to be nicely done...
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 03/24/2005 04:51:35 PM
I personally don't care for the composition of this shot, to close for my taste and the white in the upper right hand corner is distracting.
 03/23/2005 10:54:03 AM
A nice photo of the horse's face and eye. The mane on the left looks like it was singed with fire. I cant tell if that is real, or if it is just bad pixelation on a blown up image. Lighting is a bit dark on mid to upper right.
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 03/23/2005 09:26:24 AM
Beautiful animal...looks like something was done to it?
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 03/22/2005 02:06:21 PM
Seems a little dark along the nose.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/21/2005 09:06:10 PM
I don't like the filter, but I like the pic
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 03/21/2005 09:05:44 AM
Just a bit dark. Very nice composition but I would have liked to see a little more light bounced onto the horses front. You may have been going for a moody low key shot....but I think more light is still in order. Also, whats up with the horses mane? Did you use some kind of weird filter? hmmm. I would have liked to see it sharp and natural.
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 03/21/2005 06:14:40 AM
Bad selection of the background.. you have messed up the horse's hair ( on the left side of the picture ).. try selecting and then feather it to make is smoother.. or blur your selected area ( the mask )
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/21/2005 03:42:59 AM
the hair looks very distorted on my monitor
 03/21/2005 02:00:21 AM
a lot of noise in the mane. Too shadowed to work well for stock. Nice capture though
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 03/20/2005 07:17:08 PM
Would have been a great shot, why use the filter? Most stock agencies want photos, 5.
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