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Challenge: Conspiracy (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Olympus C-2100UZ
Location: paddock
Date: Sep 16, 2005
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/30sec
Date Uploaded: Sep 16, 2005

 My two horses picking on each other in the paddock...taken on an overcast day...the hard part was stopping them from walking over to me and the camera. It took a long time for them to ignore my presence and a camera in their faces. I cloned out a water bucket and small rock in background..used levels, gaussian blur on image, unsharp mask, brightness/contrast, shadow/highlight and crop.

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Place: 96 out of 114
Avg (all users): 4.6908
Avg (commenters): 4.2727
Avg (participants): 4.4805
Avg (non-participants): 4.7849
Views since voting: 585
Views during voting: 379
Votes: 249
Comments: 12
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/24/2005 11:12:07 AM
Quite touching.
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 09/24/2005 02:56:25 AM
very nice capture, the levels seem a little light.. a bit more contrast would really make the subjects pop out
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 09/20/2005 09:43:29 PM
needs more depth of field
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 09/20/2005 06:03:27 PM
bit of a stretch
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 09/19/2005 10:21:06 AM
I like this concept & composition. I little more sharpness on the horses and a little more contrast in the background would have really improved this image, IMO.
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 09/18/2005 06:22:43 PM
Seems a bit out of focusand the empty middle seems to draw away the attention from the horses.
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 09/18/2005 12:53:34 PM
the top rail sort of cuts off the stuff that would make this a more interesting shot, muzzles and jawlines.
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 09/18/2005 12:17:38 PM
I think the horses should have been more in focus and the background more blurred
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 09/18/2005 07:54:34 AM
I am not fond of the PP on this one at all, by all means correct me if I am wrong but didn´t you blur out the backround afterwards? Anyway, if you didn´t it still looks very wierd (I am still talking about the blur), especially that line around the top of the horses head to the right. Also the lighting seems a bit flat, it could use a boost in contrast IMHO. The composition is nice though and I see at as beeing on topic. 5 from me.
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 09/18/2005 06:04:09 AM
I'm not sure this works quite so well within the challenge..it looks more like kisses to me. To make the shot a little more vibrant, you might try adding a little more contrast and brightining it.
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 09/18/2005 01:20:47 AM
Hehehehe..well done. I would've liked to have seen no fence there...but with these animals you have done well to get this.
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 09/18/2005 12:54:58 AM
Awww, it does look like they are sharing secrets. I find the fence a bit distracting (I want to see their lips :-), but a sweet shot.
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