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Challenge: Horse(s) (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: home
Date: Aug 23, 2008
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 320
Shutter: 1/320th
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Aug 24, 2008

My specialty is "portraits in motion" and nothing better than a manly man for that. Stallion attitude! Hoping for top ten, it would be really bad if I can't top ten as a professional horse shooter. However, a smashing landscape can beat an action shot around here! Or a heart-tugging relationship image.

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post challenge. This one goes down in history as my biggest misjudge of voter preferences ever. Only 45th, in my pro specialty, with the rarest kind of shot that one can make of horses in motion.

Statistics
Place: 44 out of 121
Avg (all users): 5.8771
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
Avg (participants): 5.8136
Avg (non-participants): 5.9083
Views since voting: 1156
Views during voting: 340
Votes: 179
Comments: 18
Favorites: 0


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09/01/2008 01:43:10 AM
Gorgeous image that IMO is much, much better than it finished here.

Beautiful color/light, nice DOF, tack sharp, and dramatic. Nice capture all the way around. Conveys the playful "snort and blow" "Look at ME" expression, to me.

I'd love to have had an image like this of my own stallion.

Message edited by author 2008-09-01 05:16:54.
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09/01/2008 01:39:51 AM
This is gorgeous. I put it very close behind my 1st choice (which made the 2nd page, btw), both very sexy shots.
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09/01/2008 12:31:13 AM
Guess what?!!! You know that one 10?...it's from me! I loved this photo and must tell you that you were robbed in this challenge. A wonderful photo!!!
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09/01/2008 12:20:09 AM
Ditto on your post challenge comment. PLUS when the shot looks like you are in mortal danger?! what are voters thinking? you were seriously robbed here my friend. seriously robbed.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/30/2008 11:25:37 PM
Beautiful horse.
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08/27/2008 11:56:18 AM
good crop and focus on eyes, with good light
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08/26/2008 01:47:33 PM
no vote but drop dead gorgeous image. I appreciate the difficulty in getting a shot like this. a rare image that you have mastered. Love the drama in the light and so amazing that you kept the shady-side eye-light and the highlights on the body so well. A true master of horse images.
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08/26/2008 11:59:17 AM
Nice horse, good capture, but the light is a bit harsh.
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08/26/2008 01:22:41 AM
It looks like he is standing tall just for his picture.
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08/25/2008 07:04:22 PM
Beautiful capture of this magnificent bay. :)
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08/25/2008 06:21:47 PM
Not sure I'm comfortable with the angle of this shot. It's almost as if you startled the horse. But aside from that and my compulsion to want to crop off the white blob at top-left, you nailed the dof, light and colour.
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08/25/2008 06:13:27 PM
Fabulous portrait! What a beautiful animal!
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08/25/2008 05:30:58 PM
gorgeous blood bay, just wish more of her were in the light!
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08/25/2008 04:52:29 PM
Lovely. Looks like a stallion.
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08/25/2008 12:09:06 PM
wow! thats cool! he just jumped out the picture and ran me over-7
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08/25/2008 03:45:41 AM
I like how one side is lit and the other is dark.
Overall though the picture would have been better with the dark horse against a lighter background.
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08/25/2008 01:31:06 AM
A bit dark in the shadowed side of the face.
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08/25/2008 12:47:52 AM
no vote from me, but truly awesome friend!
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