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06/15/2008 10:45:34 AM |
| A good candid -- would like to have seen some faces. |
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06/15/2008 10:41:39 AM |
| There is a lot of potential here. You were in a great place to get a good cowboy shot. I just think you could have gotten a much better scene where you could see the faces and the poles weren't so much in the way. |
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06/13/2008 08:32:35 PM |
| This would be a good action shot but it is a bit too busy. Now the cowboy and the horse ARE in the center of the composition which signal that they are the main subjects BUT there are other elements that detract the eye's focus away from them. The cowboys sitting on the sidelines behind the rider and the people in the stands & and other cowboy on horseback in the upper right hand portion of the photo. I know that it may have been difficult given that you had to stay where you were seated but a composition which showed the front of the horse and rider would have been less busy. It would have been cropped or zoomed in close so that the horse and rider dominate or fully fill the composition. Taking the composition as it is here you could have cropped closer to the main rider to chop out those two cowboys on the left - that would help strengthen it and make it less busy. The other suggestion is that you may have had time to take the shot (before he burst from the stalls) to wait for that cowboy on horseback in the top right to get out of the frame. That too would have helped make the scene a little less busy. There is also something odd about the post-processing because there are strange blotches on the sleeve on your main subject and the body of the horse. Just working with the composition as it is now it would have greatly improved the photo if you had captured more of the face of this cowboy. His face is too hidden. Faces and facial expressions add visual interest and that would have helped this photo. |
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06/12/2008 01:38:57 AM |
| Interesting shot but the processing has created some rather unpleasant posterization. |
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06/11/2008 10:30:50 AM |
| Too contrasty on the white parts of the horse. Really like the framing that includes the rodeo name at the bottom right corner. Want to see something of the cowboy's face. The guy in the upper right doesn't seem distracting, but adds interest to the photo. |
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06/11/2008 01:55:28 AM |
| I'm going to assume the posterizing was intentional as it seems to be everywhere, that being said it doesn't work for me in this image |
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06/10/2008 07:56:41 AM |
| I like the processing on this but I wish it were just a little brighter. Nice composition. |
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06/09/2008 07:35:32 PM |
| great shot of them about to explode and rope a calf. Don't even mind the glare on the horse. 9 |
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06/09/2008 12:05:38 PM |
| A little bit of motion blur it looks like, and somewhat overprocessed. Wondering why you didn't use an action shot after he left the gate - that would have been sweet! Good luck. |
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