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Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit
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Challenge: Scene It! (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO Macro Super II for Canon
Location: Timonium, MD
Date: Aug 27, 2006
Aperture: f11
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Animals, Action
Date Uploaded: Aug 29, 2006

 How fortunate that this challenge occurs the same week as the Maryland State Fair. I go to the horse races one day a year, and this was the day, so "Seabiscuit" was a no-brainer. I took pictures while my wife and daughter bet on the ponies. They bet a total of $8.00 on two races and won $7.50 back. Good for them.

Shot with Sigma 70-300 at 92mm.

In PSCS2:
crop, resize, levels, shadow/highlight, hue/saturation, curves, brightness, Noise Ninja

Statistics
Place: 49 out of 99
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Votes: 391
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/31/2006 04:28:36 PM
Not enough light/detail in the horses to make this a really good horseracing shot, and not enough similarity in the characters (horse colors, silks colors) to make this stand out as a really good recreation of a scene from the movie.
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 08/30/2006 08:04:50 PM
Quite appropriate for that movie. Though it doesn't have the same feel as a movie. Needs more atmosphere. This would be more like a documentary than a movie.
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 08/30/2006 03:08:14 PM
nice shot, but the horses seem just alittle out of focus
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/30/2006 01:08:22 PM
little out of focus.
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 08/30/2006 12:50:26 PM
You don't throw a whole life away just because he's banged up a little...
nice.. love that movie.. sharpness seemed to be the problem here..
Other than that.. framing is alright.. might want to consider using a 6x4 or even a 8x4 ratio, with the subject in the left...

This will make the photo looks more "action-packed" with the horses runing to the right..
6 for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/30/2006 07:05:58 AM
good action shot, great as a square crop...a litte soft perhaps
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 08/30/2006 04:39:14 AM
Good enough for me. I only saw the trailers, so as far as I know it could be Seabiscuit right there. I'd like the photo more if the first horse was a bit further along.
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 08/30/2006 03:58:19 AM
I don't know why but I don't like the crop. It's a good pic but I would have liked a squarer crop or a more leading lines kind of shot. Still it's well timed good catch.
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