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J_Ehrat


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Challenge: Free Study 2007-03 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
Date: Mar 17, 2007
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/400 sec.
Galleries: Sports, Action
Date Uploaded: Mar 20, 2007

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Statistics
Place: 86 out of 561
Avg (all users): 6.2699
Avg (commenters): 7.7857
Avg (participants): 6.3417
Avg (non-participants): 6.0698
Views since voting: 1104
Views during voting: 281
Votes: 163
Comments: 18
Favorites: 2 (view)


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04/11/2007 04:51:33 PM
An outstanding picture - congrats on the new personal best. Your outtakes are excellent as well. That was a very successful outing, it seems!
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04/09/2007 04:02:24 PM
Congrats on the new high score josh... bout time!!
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04/08/2007 10:42:17 AM
That has to be painful. Great catch.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/07/2007 02:06:51 PM
This is a great, great capture. It looks like a Picasso painting of a rodeo. Notice how the background is all texture. The horse looks like he's praying. As he kneels into a prone position, the man is forced into a supine position, each being submissive in his own way. The fringe on the cowboy is excessive, but that becomes its own statement (perhaps on the feminine becoming masculine or the masculine becoming feminine or the sublime becoming ridiculous or the ridiculous becoming sublime... as we imagine the frilly cowboy when he is not in the middle of an intense act and mentally compare it to this one who is). I can imagine Picasso indulging himself by painting such an elaborate fringe. Notice how it is chaotically ornamental while the "fringe" of the horse's mane and tale are in perfect synchronization with the overall action. You have captured here what rodeo (and civilization is all about) man trying to evoke the nature he feels separated from and then attempting to dominate it. I think this would be improved by cropping off some of the right, but even so I can't in good conscience give this anything less than a 10.
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04/06/2007 07:24:05 PM
wonderful
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04/06/2007 10:27:13 AM
WOW! good action shot..
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04/05/2007 09:33:16 PM
Ohmy!!! This is reeeeeeallly awesome! What an amazing position to have stopped the action. I hope the horse wasn't hurt. It looks like he's lost his balance and his face is slamming into the ground.

Wow!
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04/05/2007 02:08:10 AM
nice action image...really dramatic
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04/04/2007 07:03:20 PM
Great action.
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04/03/2007 11:52:35 PM
ouch
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04/03/2007 03:31:08 PM
I think closer crop would have done alot for this shot. Good job!
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04/02/2007 12:23:00 AM
10!!!! Fantastic capture!
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04/01/2007 09:21:46 PM
Oh, holy crap...That's the definition of "hang on tight"!!!
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04/01/2007 08:05:03 PM
Wonderful dramatic capture!
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04/01/2007 06:26:13 PM
Wow, that's an amazing capture! The lines on the ground work in its favour too - the photo seems to be bursting out with energy.
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04/01/2007 02:16:51 PM
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning.

Incredibly successful action shot. The movement, the power, the pain - even the hat falling off. 8 at least.
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04/01/2007 08:24:53 AM
Great motion
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04/01/2007 03:48:06 AM
8 is fitting! (8)
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