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01/07/2003 01:46:46 PM |
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Composition (content)
The composition is almost perfect. The angle at wich the bronze horses are shot is excellent, because it makes you feel the horses are running towards you, but make a turn at the last moment. The only things that take some of the power of the shot away are:
* The ear of the front horse is cut off by the uper frame border. And even when it is in, doesn't hur to leave some space between the subject and the border of the frame. I guess it happened by accident. After downloading and full screen viewing I often discover that the frame I considered perfect was slightly moved and cut a detail off.
* The horse with his head down is to close to the edge of the frame. The space at the left side gives some more depth for example and therefore that space is good.
This is a great photo subject. The fountain at the bottom makes this picture alive and kicking. The lighting is great, the artist who made these horses also did a very good job.
Background
Good thing the background is so dark, because it isn't beautiful. The windows reflect and glare and they seem to be in the field of focus, not nice.
There are two things I am thinking about:
* would a polarizing filter take the glare out of the windows and hopefully make them darker, or would it show what is behind them and create even more background noise?
* would a wider aperture (F2.8-F4) blur it more while keepin the horses in the field of focus?
Perhaps the polarizer would also take some of the glare of the water, not that that is a problem, but perhaps an interesting effect, might also do something about the Chromatic Abberation/blooming in the water at the bottomright corner. It would most like take the glare of the edge of the fountain in the bottom of the frame and make it even smoother then it already is.
Camera Work (Technical)
Excellent. Good depth of field (but see comment about background), excellent exposure, good focus, good sharpness. Using the high shutterspeed to freeze the water is a very good choice. As said by others, it really looks like they are running. Using a slower shutter would blur the water to much. Perhaps that was also the choice for F4.5, F2.8 would allow 1/250 at most, too bad that there is no ISO50 on the 707.
Whitebalance looks good to me.
Digital Processing (technical)
Good.
My opinion
Wonderful shot. Just a little bit better framing and a nicer background would really make it a winner.
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01/05/2003 07:31:47 PM |
| To me this appears to be a fountain of wild mustangs, and I don't know what it has to do with travel in the way the challenge meant it. I'll give a 5 for the clarity of the photo though. PTL |
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01/05/2003 01:11:20 AM |
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01/03/2003 01:08:21 PM |
| Actually looks like they're running, nice effect. |
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01/02/2003 02:11:02 AM |
| You've captured the implied motion of this fountain extremely well. Nicely done. - z [8] |
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01/01/2003 11:00:00 AM |
| Every place is a destination for someone, actually or at least potentially, therefore everything is relevant to the subject of travel. Thus your photo is bang on target! Good luck and keep rebutting comments. |
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12/31/2002 01:22:26 AM |
| It's certianly an excellent photo, but what's portrayed in combination with the title doesn't say travel to me. Of course that's only my interpretation. |
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12/30/2002 07:15:51 AM |
| Great pic - it really looks like they're causing the splashes! I would have tried not to crop out the top of the front horse's ear though. |
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12/30/2002 02:58:24 AM |
| AH, Las Colinas, right? Nice capture. |
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12/30/2002 01:40:40 AM |
| from the thumb I thought these were real. I love the shot, just wish that they were real. 9 |
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