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Calvin Borel @ Churchill Downs
Calvin Borel @ Churchill Downs
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Tilted III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Location: Churchill Downs; Louisville, KY
Date: Jun 17, 2010
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/640
Date Uploaded: Jun 22, 2010

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Place: 48 out of 127
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Avg (commenters): 7.3333
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Views since voting: 776
Views during voting: 231
Votes: 148
Comments: 4
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07/02/2010 11:01:04 AM
Lucky duck you!!!! You got to see the races up close! My eldest would love to see one of the races live - she loves horses.

The crop is good on this tilt for you have the horses mouth/nose lined up directly with the bottom left corner while Borel's tail end is lined up with the upper right corner. Diagonal lining of element placement is strong because of how you cropped this. However, that strength opens up a weakness in that you had to crop out the 'action' of the shot. The moving legs and the flying hair of the horses tail which would give the shot a strong sense of motion which would have further strengthened the sense of falling or rather rushing/racing 'downhill'. Cases like this I wish that it was possible to do both but the nature of the crop does not allow that:-(
 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/29/2010 05:39:02 PM
That's a lot of tilt - looks like he's going to fall off! Composition works OK though and the DOF isolates the jockey well.
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06/27/2010 10:48:28 PM
i really like your comp and the way you have his rear end pointing to the upper right diagonal of the frame. not your average horsey shot.
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06/23/2010 01:40:48 PM
this made me laugh out loud!
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