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Tenderfoot
Tenderfoot
yakatme


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Challenge: Off-Centered Subject II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
Location: Homestead, Florida
Date: Jan 29, 2006
Aperture: f4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Animals, Rural
Date Uploaded: Jan 29, 2006

 This shot did not strike me at first as being a good entry for this challenge, but it did start to grow on me the more I looked at it. I hope that I didn't force this into a challenge just to enter something.
This shot was taken at the Homestead Championship Rodeo. I was impressed earlier when this boy had walked right by me in the crowd. He looked so much like an authentic cowboy without looking dressed up and without over doing it. After the rodeo, I let the crowd file out before I left to avoid the traffic and to see if anymore opportunities presented themselves. I was standing at the end of the bleachers when I looked below and to the side. There, again was this cowboy helping his father seperate their horses from the herd so that they could load them and leave. I'm glad I stuck around a little longer.

Post processing: Opened in Raw without changing exposure, crop/rotate, levels, slight color saturation (a little more on the red), cloned out one stain on the fence and a few spots on the animals, brightness/contrast, slight unsharp, size for web.

Statistics
Place: 200 out of 357
Avg (all users): 5.3979
Avg (commenters): 6.1667
Avg (participants): 5.2813
Avg (non-participants): 5.6349
Views since voting: 888
Views during voting: 238
Votes: 191
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

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Pentax *ist DS
Pentax FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited AF
 03/02/2006 04:06:20 PM
I like this shot. I would have liked more of the horses - even at the taken focal length you could have cropped some of the top without losing anything compositionally. As it is, you only got 6 votes out of 191 below 4, so I would think that this was perceived pretty universally as being good, but not spectacular.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 02/04/2006 09:03:59 PM
Excellent shot.....
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Nikon D50
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED
 02/04/2006 12:41:45 AM
Eye catching ... great color and refreshing subject matter, 9.
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
 02/03/2006 08:54:52 PM
Nice Capture
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Canon EOS-10D
Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM
 02/03/2006 10:32:42 AM
NICE JOB
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Mattel Barbie Photo Designer Digital Camera
Nikon MF Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AIS
 01/31/2006 10:39:51 AM
A pleasing sense of different intersecting directions in this shot: there are two directions, created by the fence lines, the horse bodies and the direction where the boy is looking. What I don't like is that there are some animals missing parts in this shot: I know it's hard to coordinate things like that, but a shot is a shot, has to be perfect.
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Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Raynox Pro Digital 0.66X Wide Angle Conversion
 01/30/2006 09:26:48 PM
Interesting lines! Good capture.
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