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Horse of a thousand dreams
Horse of a thousand dreams
snaffles


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Challenge: Things That No Longer Work (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: la upstairs studio dans la Chateau Snaffles
Date: Jan 10, 2010
Aperture: f.14
ISO: 200
Shutter: 6 seconds
Galleries: Emotive, Studio
Date Uploaded: Jan 10, 2010

I've had this copper horse since I was 11 years old. Several years later, he has always had a place of honour wherever I've lived. I still have the broken leg.

setup: Copper can balance on three legs so I carefully put him atop a glass-topped table with a black insert under the glass. Camera on tripod, light supplied by a simple LED pucklight.

pp: RAW-TIFF conversion, rotate, crop, clone out sensor dust, healing tool, brightness/contrast, saturation, resize, usm, sharpen, save for web.

Statistics
Place: 128 out of 136
Avg (all users): 4.4851
Avg (commenters): 3.0000
Avg (participants): 4.2063
Avg (non-participants): 4.7324
Views since voting: 875
Views during voting: 331
Votes: 134
Comments: 3
Favorites: 0


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01/21/2010 03:36:58 PM
Hi from the Critique Club

My first impression is that the shot is nice and clean but something feels "off". I think that the negative space is not used to good effect, the subject feels small in the frame and we are drawn to look around but the nothingness isn't helping us get into the shot.

The lighting is very good. The focus seems a little out as the horses head seems OOF.

It's not obvious (to me) at first glance that the leg is missing and the horse is broken. Does he have it tucked up in some prancing fashion perhaps? In any case, some voters may ask "did it work to start with" - you can never tell what voters think!

Overall a good shot, probably deserved a higher score than it got.

Gerry
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01/18/2010 01:59:48 PM
I still don't know why this one ended so low. I like the light and the subject. Perhaps it's because the horizon isn't horizontal, but that's just a guess.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/11/2010 09:01:01 AM
The lighting helps this shot, but I do not find the subject very interesting, sorry.
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