Horse C&C

Muineach

Yes, horse's, no more fox's
And no more cropping issues, i.e. which crop is best, now I wont crop at all, it will make me think about the shot a bit more before I take it :mad:

I was bored today so I went picking blackberries and came across some nice horse's. I didn't have any ND filter's with me so I had to resort to adjusting the aperture and shutter speed to prevent whiteout (f12 @ 1/300 ISO 100), yes it was that bright out. I'm pretty happy with what I got (shown below), the only thing is the sky, to me it doesn't look natural, but god's honest truth it was that colour.

Number 2 gave me a bit of trouble, the horse's side were near black as the sun light came from the side, I think the saturation may need to change and maybe a bit more dodge/burn on the clouds ?

Apart from that I'll let you decide on what doesn't work, and please be honest
danke schon
Muineach


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Borderfox

I love 2 and 3, really nice colours and beautiful symmetry in 2 and in 3 its a great pose with some nice space to go into. Number one his/her ears are not up and number 4 I would like a different angle showing some detail on the eye. Very well done though, where did you find them?

kensutz

Damn they're good. Nice pics Muineach

TelePaul

Two is fantastic! Well done.

Muineach

Borderfox wrote:

Number one his/her ears are not up and number 4 I would like a different angle showing some detail on the eye. Very well done though, where did you find them?

Number 1 ? the ears look up to me ?
Number 4, I did try to take some eye detail, only realised when I got back home most of the eye detail was on his "dark" side, have to give PS a go and see what I can do. But a dark eye on black skin, I'll see what I can do.

As for where they are ? they're about 100 yards from my garden, if I look out the window I can see them and there's 5 adults and 4 foals (well were foals)

Borderfox

in picture 2 the horses are alert and their ears are up compare this picture to the first one and thats what I mean, I dont mean to be super critical but thats what I am told..

Muineach

Borderfox wrote:

in picture 2 the horses are alert and their ears are up compare this picture to the first one and thats what I mean, I dont mean to be super critical but thats what I am told..

hmm interesting, I have no experience with horse's at all so I don't "understand" their body language yet, but his ears are up

janmc

I've got to agree with borderfox -the ears in 1 are more general contentment than alertness... I guess an analogy is a sleepy half smile on a person. I'd probably rate the others higher because of it. Horsey-people do notice these things

But I still really like them - particularly the profile shot. Don't forget to take lots of shots of the new foals next spring!

Muineach

janmc wrote:

I've got to agree with borderfox -the ears in 1 are more general contentment than alertness... I guess an analogy is a sleepy half smile on a person. I'd probably rate the others higher because of it. Horsey-people do notice these things

I'm about as far away from being a horsey person and I am from the moon, so this is all new to me. This evening I was out again, "staking out" the fox's den when they came over to me, they sniffed my hands back etc. then the "accepted" me, now I can walk in between them within 2-3 feet with no problems at all, christ another 200 RAW files to go though, again grrr

About the eye's on horse's, I can capture the detail of the eyelid, but as for detail on the iris etc, I drawing a blank, even up close I just can't see any detail, maybe a dull reflection but that's about it ? Is this normal ?