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Challenge: From the Ground Up III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: Lake Mathews, CA
Date: Aug 3, 2006
Aperture: 5.0
ISO: 320
Shutter: 1/800th
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Aug 3, 2006

 Uncropped RAW conversion with the luminance/chrominance noise correction turned up
Turned down highlight
S Curves for more contrast
Fotoman's photo filter/hue-saturation BW conversion
convert to grayscle
tritone with black, pantone 215 and a pantone plum shade. Back to RGB,
a little unsharp mask.

My mare Ember heads into the setting sun as I sat on the ground.
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post challenge--hey, thanks to all of the commentors for taking the time. It's obviously not obvious that this was taken from the vantage point of the ground. If taken from standing position, you'd see a ton more of her face, and her belly/haunches wouldn't be so exaggerated.

Statistics
Place: 193 out of 361
Avg (all users): 5.2115
Avg (commenters): 5.8400
Avg (participants): 4.7065
Avg (non-participants): 5.6121
Views since voting: 1118
Views during voting: 305
Votes: 208
Comments: 26
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 02/15/2007 09:55:34 PM
another beautiful horse capture!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/15/2006 09:02:06 PM
Like the picture, don´t really understand how it fits the challenge, but... Good colors, love the light in the horses "hair??"
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 08/15/2006 08:09:48 PM
Beatiful shot. But, with the angle and perspective as such I can't say it's very much on topic. Will come back and have another look later. Currently sits as a 6 with me because of not being very much on topic.
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 08/15/2006 04:28:30 PM
I'm not sure how this meets the challenge. Beautiful photo though.
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 08/15/2006 03:15:39 PM
Great picture but it does not really meet the challenge.
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 08/14/2006 03:02:41 PM
Wrong Challenge???
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 08/14/2006 02:28:02 PM
I'm not sure if this meets the challenge (boy I hate saying that). Otherwise I like the picture, it has good composition and I like the lighting.
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 08/14/2006 06:29:25 AM
This is a lovely evocative picture. However, the vantage seems to be across rather that looking up.
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 08/13/2006 11:57:08 PM
This is a cool photo - I like how the horse is looking off in the distance. Don't know how it fits with the theme, though.
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 08/13/2006 10:14:10 PM
it's a fantastic shot...really, I have absolutely no complaints about this whatsoever...but, does it meet the challenge?
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 08/13/2006 04:37:51 PM
This is a beautiful shot! It does not give a great perspective of from the ground up and probably would be better suited for the zen challenge. 8
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 08/13/2006 02:14:37 AM
A wonderful photograph, but I really don't see how it fits the challenge.
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 08/12/2006 10:58:52 PM
Great pic, but "ground up"?
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 08/12/2006 11:14:27 AM
Absolutely gorgeous picture, and I'll vote as such, but seems to be in the wrong challenge?
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 08/11/2006 05:16:04 PM
Lovely catch and nice tones, but I'm not getting the connection to ground-up(?)
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 08/11/2006 04:44:32 PM
Fabulous backlighting, wonderful animal portrait but I am not seeing the "from the ground up" part. I'd like to see a shot with perhaps more leg and a perspective up his body.
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 08/10/2006 02:17:18 PM
Pretty picture, but I am not sure how it meets the challenge. The focal point appears to be at eye-level. Still, like I said, nice work otherwise.
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 08/10/2006 10:44:25 AM
Beautiful play with light...like your choice of color aswell.
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 08/09/2006 08:23:50 PM
Beautiful photograph, not sure it meets the Challenge criteria, but even if the theme was "Anything but Horses" you still get a 10.
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 08/09/2006 06:29:18 PM
OMG, this is one of the coolest pictures I have ever seen!!! I definetely rate this by 10!!! The only thing I would change next time (if you will have a chance) is to flip the camera, so the legs are also in the picture. It might get a bigger "experience".
Btw, don't you have more of those? I would be very interested in seeing them. Thank you!
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 08/09/2006 01:30:55 PM
Great photo, but I am a little lost as to how this ties into the theme. I think the angle of the lighting is brilliant, as well as the positioning of the subject.
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 08/09/2006 12:38:19 PM
Bravo, I'm not really much of a horse person. But this is really great!
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 08/09/2006 11:19:41 AM
It's a beautiful picture but I don't see the theme reflected in it
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 08/09/2006 09:21:16 AM
are you sure you are in the right challenge? a fantastic shot, but not for this challenge imo
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 08/09/2006 07:27:52 AM
Not from the ground up??????
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 08/09/2006 02:14:40 AM
Such a striking image but I'm a little loss as to why it fits this challenge. Maybe I'm missing something...
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