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05/05/2006 11:21:50 PM |
Hi from the Critique Club!
This image immediately evokes feelings of calm and relaxation. It paints a picture of the idylic country life. It gives you a warm glow inside.
The frame acts brilliantly as a border and draws the viewer's eye straight into the picture, creating a sense of depth and leading us straight to the horse's eye.
The colours of the wooden frame are echoed in the colours of the horse.Creating a lovely sense of balance and 'rightness'. These lovely, soft earthy tones are balanced well by the blue of the harness.
The lighting has a lovely soft glow to it, like the last moments of a sunny day. This is enhanced by the use of blur.
The blur is what split the voters, and is a subjective decision. You can only create images to please yourself and not others. Only you know what you wanted the image to convey, and I think this is exactly the way you intended the photograph to be. So well done!
Message edited by author 2006-05-05 23:25:15. |
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05/01/2006 02:08:51 PM |
Oh Doug!!! This is BEAUTIFUL!!!! Can't for the life of me figure out why it scored 5.7! It looks like it should be on the front page to me!!!
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04/30/2006 10:06:29 PM |
| Sorry but I have never been a fan of softfocus and that is also the case here, I dislike it and would have liked this image much more if it were pristine and sharp. |
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04/30/2006 08:07:46 PM |
| Very beautiful!! Love the softness. Well done. |
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04/30/2006 05:07:28 PM |
| I like your use of softness for this subject and composition. |
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04/30/2006 04:44:52 PM |
| post prossess is nice but really extreem and IMO you wen't a little to far with it all, the softness and glow and all...would almost be better plain IMHO.6 |
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04/30/2006 03:34:53 PM |
| Since there is not much color on your window frame, you might have, maybe channel mixer, then paint the horse back to original color and then some curves to give your frame a real worn out effect, always painting Oliver back, I think this gave it a better look. Also over sharpen the frame area. JMO. |
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04/30/2006 09:49:34 AM |
| Nice photo. Possibly a bit soft, but that probably is intentional. I wish his eye was a bit sharper. |
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04/30/2006 12:22:54 AM |
| Beautifully done, meets theme well... a bit soft for my taste and seems a tad overexposed on his nose, but very pretty photo... |
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04/29/2006 11:09:52 PM |
| A little too much soft focus making this too saccharine for my taste. Lovely composition though and well exposed. |
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04/29/2006 08:58:10 PM |
| Excellent lighting and composition. |
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04/29/2006 07:52:36 PM |
| Great looking horse. It looks like a studio shot, almost too pretty for a horse. |
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04/29/2006 05:17:05 PM |
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04/29/2006 04:30:28 PM |
| very nice scene there, but I think it's overdone as far as post-processing goes. |
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04/29/2006 02:13:31 PM |
| love the subject but the blur hrts more than adds to this image IMHO |
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04/29/2006 10:59:17 AM |
| I think the soft focus effect here is slightly too strong, but I like how the window acts as the frame. |
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04/29/2006 10:42:10 AM |
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04/29/2006 09:43:44 AM |
| Beautiful soft light, I like how the wood acts almost like a frame for this shot. |
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04/29/2006 08:30:39 AM |
| Nice shot. I love his name. |
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04/29/2006 07:27:27 AM |
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04/28/2006 04:52:42 PM |
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04/28/2006 02:42:11 PM |
| I like Oliver and your image |
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04/27/2006 11:41:53 AM |
| Love the soft focus, works beautifuly here. 8 |
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04/27/2006 06:27:32 AM |
| very nice...I am a bit iffy about the soft focus, but I won't mark it down |
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04/25/2006 10:37:01 PM |
| very nice..great soft focus! 10 |
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04/25/2006 10:16:51 PM |
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04/25/2006 08:08:02 PM |
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04/25/2006 07:26:24 PM |
| Really lovely picture. I think the soft focus works well although others may not like it. i will be interested to see where this gets voted. Good luck |
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04/25/2006 02:09:00 PM |
| a lovely composition. The glow/softness added is more than I think the image needed, but the warmth of the image is nice. |
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04/24/2006 09:45:53 PM |
| Nice shot but a little too soft for my tastes. |
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04/24/2006 06:31:11 PM |
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04/24/2006 02:48:12 PM |
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04/24/2006 07:37:01 AM |
| soft focu doesn't work for me on this one, just me. |
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04/24/2006 01:16:21 AM |
| Absolutely beautiful! I love the soft glow |
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