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Challenge: Sugar (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: Renton, WA
Date: Jul 20, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/1250sec
Galleries: Animals, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 20, 2008

 Some of our friends own a horse, and are regular (daily) patrons of a nearby stable. We had our pick of horses... and although this stallion was the friskiest, and would be hardest to shoot - we chose him for his incredible mane (funny, after all of that... I didn't even use the mane in the photo)! I'll post an awesome outtake that I almost used instead of this one. Really hard to choose, but this one just said "sugar" a lot more.

Thanks to Brian, Jean, & Alex for the assistance (and access to the stable!

Hope it does okay :O)

pp:
convert from RAW
no crop - straight from the camera
curves
dodge & burn on the horse & sugar
hue/sat
more curves
resize
usm
border
sfw

Statistics
Place: 23 out of 114
Avg (all users): 5.9868
Avg (commenters): 7.3000
Avg (participants): 5.8776
Avg (non-participants): 6.0392
Views since voting: 1166
Views during voting: 315
Votes: 151
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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 07/28/2008 01:43:42 AM
This a really cool shot , love it..
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/27/2008 11:49:52 PM
Ahhhhh! This is a sweet image..well captured!!
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 07/27/2008 11:21:06 PM
More like "pieces" offering ... lucky horsey :-)
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 07/23/2008 06:47:20 PM
The cubes look a little bit too bright white
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 07/22/2008 05:54:57 PM
haha, she already has sugar on her nose. This is my favorite of the horse and sugar pictures. The close up crop and shallow depth of field tell the story simply without distractions.
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 07/22/2008 11:32:56 AM
Nice capture, but the sugar cubes lack detail & texture.
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 07/22/2008 02:37:28 AM
this will make all the other horses in the challenge jealous

nice idea to zoom in and get close up to the subject 8
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 07/21/2008 07:00:05 PM
verry nice and good focus, i tell you. Cute picture, i can't really put my finger on it, but there is something in this picture that could be better... but as I said, i can't really place it somewhere... Overall, good pic..
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 07/21/2008 01:07:47 PM
he will expect them now everytime. :)
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 07/21/2008 12:41:53 PM
nice shot, not a fan of the border though. 8
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 07/21/2008 10:08:05 AM
Wonderful, one of my two 10s.
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 07/21/2008 01:32:26 AM
Nice idea but to much sugar. A couple would have worked much better.
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 07/21/2008 12:07:07 AM
LOL...that's great...do horses get hyper after a lot of sugar??? nice clarity and light in the image and I like the dof...7
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