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Originally posted by hotpasta:
I was just looking at the lens you used as I am thinking of taking a deep breathe and buying one. This is a great image that showcases the lens Jeff...love it.
I just bought this lens and was checking out shots with it an found this. I'm glad I have it now, great work this shot is stunning
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I was just looking at the lens you used as I am thinking of taking a deep breathe and buying one. This is a great image that showcases the lens Jeff...love it.
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awesome photo!!! I love the angle and that its B&W
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OMG!! what a cool shot!!! To echo pekesty's comment, what an amazing B & W conversion!! I am lucky to get that kind of range on film let alone digital!! Great job!!!
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Very cool b&w conversion with this photo, it looks great. Congratulations on a top five finish with the tough competition on this challenge.
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WOW. Really great shot... congrats on 5th place! (Although this should have really been 2nd or 3rd :) ).
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Really good. It would have been cool to see it on the front page. Congrats on top 5!Message edited by author 2007-01-27 00:35:30.
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This is fabulous! Congrats on top 5!!
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Congratulations on your high finish. I love this image. Good work.
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Great Character study. Has a journalistic sense about it. Great finish, congrats!
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congrats on 5th. Wonderful work!
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My favorite of the top 5 in the challenge, just love the light, composition and tonal range in this shot, would have voted it a 10.
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Yes Jeff, this is truly one of the best black & whites around, and kudos to your top 5 finish.
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I knew this would place high!! Congratulations, and I hope you do sell it to Marlboro and make a lot of cash!!
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Wow - Thanks for all the great comments guys - Feel very proud to be in the top ten - Congrats to the top 3 - First class!
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First freakin' class and terrific use of burning. I'd be proud to have this in my portfolio. And sell it, over and over again. ;-)
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Fantastic ! great job and placement.
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ONe of the best. Great range of tones. Skillful PP>
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Beautiful environmental portrait. Definitely wall worthy, adn the fact that the horse is looking in the same direction adds to it as well. Very nice tones in the bw.
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6 - Like this, but looks like it needs a nudge up on the left or a 'perspective correction' (or whatever it is called in pp).
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Great b/w tone! Nice detail 10
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Wow!! Awesome image! Nice and crisp - I think the black and white is perfect here!
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Great capture!! Love the old time feel of this. :-)
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Well done, want to have a smoke now ;-). Good luck in the challenge!
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This stands alone and is so very strong in composition and the black and white processing..... Perfect in everyway.....
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excellent work, truly magazine quality.
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I was wondering why this great shot suddenly dissappeared. :) Great choice! Perfect B&W conversion, fantastic lighting and great composition.
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I like thsi photo, but I don't see the importance of the horse. I also think it should be in color.
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quintessential country -- very nice...
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Excellent B/W tonal range and perfect composition, great work.
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Feels like a poster for an old western movie. Great lighting and tonal range.
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B&W looks really good with this picture.
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Great light. One of my favourites.
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Excellent portrait. Perfect balance of elements, from the sky behind the gentleman to the foreground grasses. Very nicely done.
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Great B&W and good use of highlighting.
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Amazing. Love the tones, light, focus, composition!
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This has got to be one of the best cowboy and horse pictures I have ever seen. The cowboy is likable, genuine and relaxed and the horse seems to be posing nicely. Composition is wonderful. Love the log and different textures and lines of the different plants. The mountain and sky add that extra "wow". Great job on the black and white processing!
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Great contrasts, nice compositon
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You should sell this image to Marlboro!!! Congratulations!!
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Great b&w conversion and a very cool composition. Well done!
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A. Adams would be proud of your tones, nice perspective too, well done.
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Oh now this is one of the best black & whites I've run across in this challenge.
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great, excellent ... the grass on the right is very minor distraction ... actually when i look again it really fits there ... 10!
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this is very unique - one og my favorits - 9
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very nice b&w conversion. I'd like to know how you did it....impressive
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This should be an album cover. Perfect focus, Perfect B&W, Perfect processing, Perfect result. Great Job. Good Luck.
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National Geographic worthy! 10!
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There's something (I think) unintentionally amusing about the horse: perhaps its just that the portrait part of the image is so - well, 'standard' would give the lie to it, but perhaps 'just as one would expect' is right; and then the horse, with its face turned toward us. There are strong leading lines that make the horse almost a stronger part of the composition than the man, and so we expect something from it.
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You've managed practically perfect tonality and a very interesting composition here. Gotta love it.
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Nice like a movie setting/good luck
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Great point of view...should be hanging up !
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fantastic; both subjects perfectly positioned. one of those that tells me I must try harder...
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i like the setup,looks like a cool place to ride 8
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I like the whole set up of this picture.
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Perfect environmental portrait. DOF and focus are perfect. Composition outstanding. Conversion excellent. Okay, I ran out of superlatives. Its good. very good.
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I like the dramatic lighting, it gives this shot an almost movie setting feel to it.
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Great country scene,with excellent tone...
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Perfect capture and PP. 10!!
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stunning B&W - perfect lighting - great composition - awesome work!
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Nice portrait of man and horse.
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This is my favorite so far. I really like the depth of this, alone with the contrast. Adding to favs
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almost like a studio shot...great editing...perfect composition 8
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well done,great composition.
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How vestern movie is that! :) 7
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Good feel to the photo. 7
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You know how much I love this. Not til somebody mentioned originally "where are his boots?" did I even notice. One of the best of the year. The comp, line, contrast,natural framing, all of it.
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this is awesome. love it 9
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One of my fav's just a great shot, glad I can vote on it now and give you a well deserved 10!
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Excellent B&W portrait! The only suggestion on improvement (IMHO) is this would have been a "10" if the straw grass on the right was not there to distract from the horse in the background.
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i have to put this back on my favorites!!
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